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Submitted: 7/24/22 • Approved: 8/17/22 • Last Updated: 8/20/22 • R1441028-G0-S3
December 12, 1892 - March 8, 1950
FROM THE “PRESS ARGUS” Van Buren, Arkansas’s local Newspaper. Dated: March 10, 1950. In ill health several years, Mr. Partain had been seriously ill at the hospital for about a week. Funeral service was held at 3 p.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian church in Van Buren with Dr. W. B. Miller officiating. Burial was in Gracelawn Cemetery. Under the direction of Ocker Funeral Home.
Survivors include his wife, of the home, 118 South Fourth Street, Van Buren, a son, who was a prosecuting attorney for Crawford-Franklin-Logan counties, one daughter, his mother, five sisters. Mr. Partain’s father was a Presbytrian minister. He died a few years ago.
In respect to Mr. Partain, and to his son, County Judge S. M. Denniston ordered the closing of all offices at the courthouse on Thursday afternoon from 2:30 to 4 o’clock. Members of the Crawford and Franklin county bar associations served as honorary pallbaearers.
Death at 1;30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon brought to an end the career of Dave Partain, one of Arkansas greatest attorneys at law.
Born December 12, 1892, in the little community of Cove Creek, near Clarksville, he spent his entire life in Western Arkansas. Here he became recognized as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, trial lawyers in the South.
Associated with a long-time friend, Theron Agee, in the practice of law here at Van Buren, Mr. Partain had no peer in legal circles in the southwest until ill health forced him practically into retirement about eight years ago.
He was an influential member of the Democratic party. He was a delegate to the National conventions in 1928 and 1932, and helped to nominate both Al Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was considered as one of the most astute political observers, well versed in literary and legal matters, an outstanding pleader before a jury, and an orator of the old school.
Though held in great esteem, and profound in wisdom, his shy and studious nature rebelled at rough and tumble politics, and prevented him from attaining success in politics for himself , though helped hundreds of others to win many elections.
He served as prosecuting attorney for four years, then was defeated in 1926 for circuit judge by the present incumbent, J.O. Kincannon. He never again sought office until 1940, when he was elected without opposition to the Arkansas legislature. He served in the session of 1941 and retired. He was a Presbyterian.
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Contributed on 7/24/22 by Bill060
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