About Orval Faubus
Orval Eugene Faubus ( 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. He is best known for the 1957 Little Rock Crisis, when he refused to comply with a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, and ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School. He was elected to six two-year terms as governor. Faubus's first political race was in 1936 when he contested a seat in the Arkansas House of Representatives, which he lost. Faubus at first denied attending, and then admitted enrolling "for only a few weeks". Cherry became unpopular with voters, and Faubus challenged him in the 1954 primary.
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