D. D. Glover

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David Delano Glover (January 18, 1868 – April 5, 1952) was a lawyer, educator, and Democratic politician from Arkansas. He was born in Prattsville, Grant County, and attended public schools there and in Sheridan, finishing Sheridan High School in 1886. He worked in farming and the mercantile business, taught in Hot Spring County public schools from 1898 to 1908, and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1910 and started a law practice in Malvern, the county seat of Hot Spring County.

Glover served in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1909 and 1911. He also worked as a prosecuting attorney for the Seventh Judicial Circuit from 1913 to 1917 and took part in various state conventions.

As a Democrat, Glover was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arkansas’s 6th district, and served from March 4, 1929, to January 3, 1935 (the 71st through 73rd Congresses). He won the seat by defeating James B. Reed in the 1928 Democratic primary. Six years later, he was not renominated by his party, losing to John L. McClellan, who would later become a U.S. senator.

After leaving Congress, Glover returned to Malvern to practice law and continued until his death in 1952. He was known as a talented trial lawyer and once quipped about contingency fees, “I don’t know but one way to divide and that’s by two.” He is buried in Shadowlawn Cemetery in Malvern.

Glover’s brother, Robert W. Glover, was a Missionary Baptist pastor and also served in the Arkansas Legislature (1905–1912). In 1909, Robert Glover introduced a resolution calling for four state agricultural colleges.