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.

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.

Jan 3, 2025 · 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.

Dec 15, 1994 · LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — 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....

The conventional narrative, developed and elaborated over six decades, suggests that the Central High crisis forced Orval Faubus to publicly embrace principles pf segregationists and states' rights and to make common cause with their students with their strident advocates.

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.

Aug 24, 2016 · 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 in 1954 after a runoff, Governor Faubus initially pursued a liberal course in office but to combat his political opponents who were staunch segregationists, he adopted a hard-line civil-rights position.

Dec 14, 1994 · Elected to the governorship in 1954 after a runoff, Governor Faubus initially pursued a liberal course in office, but to combat his political opponents who were staunch segregationists, he adopted a hard-line civil-rights position.

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.