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Orval Faubus
1910Jan, 7

Orval Faubus

Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
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.

In 1957, he refused to comply with a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States 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. This event became known as the Little Rock Crisis.

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