Orval Faubus
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Orval Eugene Faubus 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, whe
Official portrait, 1959
Faubus speaking to a crowd protesting the integration of Little Rock schools
Faubus with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Arkansas Congressman Brooks Hays after a meeting on the Little Rock school crisis at the Newport Naval Base, September 14, 1957.
Faubus speaking to reporters after his meeting with Eisenhower at the Newport Naval Base, September 14, 1957.
The National States' Rights Party was a white supremacist political party that briefly played a role in the politics of the United States.
Orval Faubus
…Fort Smith, an intraparty rival of Rockefeller. During the 1960 presidential election, at a secret meeting held in a rural lodge near Dayton, Ohio, the National States' Rights Party (NSRP) nominated Orval Faubus for President and retired U.S. Navy rear admiral John G. Crommelin of Alabama for Vice President. Faubus, however, did…
Captain John Geraerdt Crommelin, US Navy, circa in 1947
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