Rhodesia (region) was first used to refer to the region by white settlers in the 1890s who informally named their new home after Cecil Rhodes, the Company's founder and managing director. It was used in newspapers from 1891 and was made official by the Company in 1895. To confuse matters, Southern Rhodesia, which became a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom in 1923, referred to itself simply as "Rhodesia" from 1964 to 1979, and in 1965 unilaterally declared independence under that name. It thereafter briefly renamed itself "Zimbabwe Rhodesia" in 1979. The usage of the term Rhodesia to refer to the historical
Jane English (politician) Senate term in the Republican primary held on March 1, 2016. She received 6,687 votes (51.2 percent) over the one-term state House member Donnie Copeland, a Pentecostal pastor also of North Little Rock, who polled 6,365 votes (48.8 percent). She defeated the Democrat Joe Woodson, also of North Little Rock, in the November 8 general election, 21,497 votes (58 percent) to 15,541 (42 percent). Jane English (politician) Jane English (born Elizabeth Jane English; November 9, 1940) is an American politician from North Little Rock, Arkansas, who is a Republican member of the Arkansas State Senate. Since 2013, she has represented