Charles "Charlie" Buford Roscopf was born in Kingtown, Phillips County, Arkansas, on April 21, 1928.
Roscopf graduated from Marvell High School in May 1946 and joined the US Navy four days later. He was stationed at Camp Pendleton in California as a medic for two years.
When he returned to Arkansas, Roscopf attended Hendrix College for two years before transferring to the University of Arkansas, where he was president of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Roscopf was elected to the Arkansas State House of Representatives in 1953 while still in law school, and he served until 1958. He earned his J.D. in 1954 and went into practice with the law firm Burke & Moore in Helena, Arkansas.
Roscopf was a delegate to the Arkansas Constitutional Convention of 1969. He served on the Arkansas State Board of Law Examiners from 1974 to 1979. Roscopf was president of the Arkansas Bar Association in 1991, became a fellow of the Arkansas Bar Association in 1996, and served as president of the Arkansas Bar Foundation Board of Directors in 2014.
Roscopf passed away on August 23, 2017.
#1: Composite image of early photo of Charles B. Roscopf and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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#2: Charles B. Roscopf's paternal great-grandfather, Walter Dawson, with unidentified woman; inscription on back of image: "Walter Dawson supposedly rode this bicycle from Ark to Oregon"
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#3: Charles B. Roscopf's paternal great-grandfather, Walter Dawson, plowing a field behind his house in Indian Bay, Arkansas
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#4: Charles B. Roscopf's father, Emmett Lee Roscopf (on right) with his siblings, John Black and Erva
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#5: (Front row) Charles B. Roscopf's paternal grandparents, Emmett and Dixie May Roscopf, and their children (front row, center) Hazel; (back row, l-r) John Black, Erva, and Emmett Lee
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#6: Charles B. Roscopf's father-in-law, R. L. "Bob" Maddox, ca. 1920
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#7: Charles B. Roscopf's paternal grandmother, Dixie Roscopf, feeding chickens at their family farm, ca. 1922
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#8: Charles B. Roscopf's wife, Mary Anne Maddox, as a baby, age 4 months
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#9: Charles B. Roscopf's wife, Mary Anne Maddox, with her mother, Mabel, and brother, Bob; Winslow, Arkansas
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#10: Charles B. Roscopf's wife, Mary Anne Maddox, as a young child
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#11: Charles B. Roscopf as a child
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#12: Charles B. Roscopf's in-laws, Mabel and Bob Maddox, standing in front of Bob's Cafe, their newly opened restaurant on the south side of the Fayetteville Square; ca. 1942
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#13: Charles B. Roscopf's in-laws, Mabel and Bob Maddox; future wife, Mary Anne Maddox; and future brother-in-law, Robert Nott Maddox, inside Bob's Cafe; Fayetteville, Arkansas
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#14: Charles B. Roscopf's future wife, Mary Anne Maddox, in front of Bob's Cafe, south side of the Fayetteville Square
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#15: Charles B. Roscopf's uncle, John Black Roscopf; ca. 1945
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#16: Charles B. Roscopf as a teenager
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#17: Charles B. Roscopf's brother-in-law, Robert Nott Maddox, in front of the Sigma Nu house on Arkansas Avenue in Fayetteville, Arkansas; 1947
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#18: Sigma Nu house on Arkansas Avenue in Fayetteville, Arkansas; 1947
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#19: Charles B. Roscopf as a young man
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#20: Charles B. Roscopf's future wife, Mary Anne Maddox (3rd from right), with University of Arkansas Majorettes
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#21: Charles B. Roscopf portrait
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#22: Charles B. Roscopf as a state representative
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#23: Charles B. Roscopf portrait
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#24: Roscopf and Maddox families: (l-r, back row) Deidre Maddox, Bob and Paula Maddox, Mary Anne and Charles B. Roscopf; (l-r, front row) Mabel Maddox, Robert Maddox, Charlie Roscopf, Bob Maddox, Ann Roscopf; Thanksgiving 1967
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#25: Charles B. Roscopf; December 1972
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#26: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Charles B. Roscopf; Helena, Arkansas, 2017
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#27: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Charles B. Roscopf; Helena, Arkansas, 2017
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