Wallace Townsend

Wallace Townsend
Townsend in 1910
Republican National Committeeman
for Arkansas
In office
1928–1961
Preceded byHarmon L. Remmel
Succeeded byWinthrop Rockefeller
Personal details
Born(1882-08-20)August 20, 1882
DeWitt, Iowa, U.S.
DiedJanuary 7, 1979(1979-01-07) (aged 96)
Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)(1) Bess Voss Townsend (married 1914-1958, her death)
(2) Floy Smith Plunkett Townsend (married 1962)
Children2
Alma materHendrix College
William H. Bowen School of Law
OccupationSchoolteacher, lawyer

Wallace Townsend (August 20, 1882 – January 7, 1979) was an American lawyer who was from 1928 to 1961 the Republican national committeeman for the U.S. state of Arkansas. When he left his party's national committee, he was succeeded by Winthrop Rockefeller, who was elected five years thereafter in 1966 as the state's first Republican governor since the Reconstruction era.