Henry Massie Rector used to be the state's sixth governor. Henry Rector was not always comfortable in that role and played a part in its downfall, and Henry rector was born on May 1, 1816, in Fontaine’s Ferry by Louisville, Kentucky, to Elias Rector and Fannie Bardell Thurston. Henry Rector was the only one in the family to survive to maturity. Henry Rector received the rudiments of an education from his nice, old mother. In age nineteen, Henry Rector left for Arkansas to try to salvage his inheritance. Henry Rector got buried in Hot Spring in the Ouachita Mountains prior to his Death in 1822. They moved to place him in a little positions to assume prominence. Some of this part is because of his land holdings, and also because of his relationship