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John Samuel Faubus (October 24, 1887 – August 24, 1966) was an American small farmer and founder of one of Arkansas' few chapters of the Socialist Party of America. He was the father of Governor of Arkansas Orval E. Faubus .
16. Juni 2023 · John Samuel (Sam) Faubus was a hardscrabble farmer whose struggles to make a living for his large family from the thin hillside soil of Madison County turned him, for his time, into a radical—a champion of labor unions, civil rights for African Americans, other forms of social justice, and finally the Socialist Party of America.
Sein Vater Sam Faubus, ein armer Farmer, war Mitglied der Sozialistischen Partei Amerikas und zeitweise wegen des Verteilens von sozialistischen Flugblättern inhaftiert. Orval besuchte für kurze Zeit das Commonwealth College in Mena in Arkansas.
education.1 Sam Faubus influenced Orval's liberal political precepts. While tied to a harsh life of scratching a marginal living from thin mountain soil, Sam became a progressive leader in his community through the force of his intellect and his character. Sam inherited a legacy of two centuries of pioneering. His immigrant
Sam Faubus was destined to enter history as the father of a famous man. If history had been more logical, a little less given to luck and caprice, it might well have come...
Faubus had hurt himself severely by supporting a politically risky reform of the county property-tax system in 1955. Reassessing property to equalize the tax burden sounded good on paper, but in practice it meant that everyone who had to pay more became, in his own eyes, a victim of an unjust law.
There Orval learned about politics from his father, “Uncle Sam” Faubus, a sort of mountain Populist. Last week in the Ozark woods, Uncle Sam, crippled from arthritis but still scratching a ...
