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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. Elected to the governorship after a runoff, Faubus initially pursued a liberal course in office but to combat his political opponents who were ...
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. Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville. Orval Eugene Faubus, Arkansas's thirty-sixth governor, who is most widely ...
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 Eugene Faubus ( / ˈfɔːbəs / FAW-bəs; January 7, 1910 – December 14, 1994) was an American politician. He was the 36th Governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967. Faubus was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1957, he refused to comply with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education.
15. Dez. 1994 · Orval Eugene Faubus was born in a log house in Combs, Ark., on Greasy Creek, on Jan. 7, 1910, and grew up in the Ozarks. His father, J. S. (Sam) Faubus, was a socialist who was arrested by federal ...
15. Dez. 1994 · Orval Eugene Faubus was born in a shack at Greasy Creek in northwest Arkansas. As a young man, he was a schoolteacher, then hopped freights as a hobo. During World War II, he served in the Army ...
ORVAL E. FAUBUS 17 addressed to "the comrades of Combs" and carried the names of ten men, four of them named Faubus. Whoever copied the names apparently inverted Sam's initials so that he is listed as S. J. Faubus. The post of secretary, carrying with it the responsibility of chief organizer, went to him. Arch Cornett, O. T. Green, and Sam ...
