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Orval Eugene Faubus (/ ˈ f ɔː b ə s / FAW-bəs; January 7, 1910 – December 14, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 36th Governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967, as a member of the Democratic Party.
May 1, 2024 · Orval Eugene Faubus was a U.S. politician who, as governor of Arkansas (1954–67), fought against the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Faubus, the son of a poor farmer, was a southern populist who supported New Deal policies. After his election as governor, he appointed six.
Jun 12, 2024 · Orval Eugene Faubus served six consecutive terms as governor of Arkansas, holding the office longer than any other person. His record was in some ways progressive but included significant political corruption.
Dec 15, 1994 · Former Gov. Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas, whose defiance of a Federal desegregation order in 1957 led to a school crisis in Little Rock and set the tone for the South's white resistance to...
Dec 15, 1994 · Former Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus, a onetime Ozark populist who became a national symbol of opposition to school desegregation, died Wednesday at his home in Conway, Ark. He was 84.
Orval Faubus (ôr´vəl fô´bəs), 1910–94, governor of Arkansas (1955–67), b. Combs, Ark. A schoolteacher, he served in World War II and after the war became Arkansas's state highway commissioner.
Faubus, Orval Eugene (b. 7 January 1910 near Combs, Arkansas; d. 14 December 1994 in Conway, Arkansas), governor of Arkansas who precipitated a constitutional crisis over school desegregation in 1957. Faubus was the oldest of seven children born to John Samuel Faubus, an Ozarks farmer and Socialist, and Addie Joslen, a homemaker.
Orval Faubus moved to Little Rock—and (to him) the big time. A Scheme for Security. Elected governor on a fluke in 1954, re-elected last year, Orval Faubus was right where he wanted to be.
Orval Eugene Faubus, Arkansas’s thirty-sixth governor, who is most widely remembered for his attempt to block the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957; circa 1955.
Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994. Biography: ORVAL EUGENE FAUBUS was born in Combs, Arkansas, on January 7, 1910. He briefly attended Commonwealth College, the radical labor school at Mena, Arkansas.
