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(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. His father barely escaped imprisonment for organizing opposition to U.S. involvement in World War I. At age eighteen Orval became a teacher, though he had only an eighth-grade education, a common practice in the rural South during the early twentieth century. He moved to Huntsville, the Madison County seat, twenty-five miles from his home, to attend high school. When he graduated he was twenty-four and had been married for three years to Alta Haskins, the daughter of a rural clergyman. For eleven years Faubus alternated between teaching in the winter and working as a migrant laborer in the summer. He traveled to the upper reaches of the Midwest to pick fruit and vegetables. He went to Washington State to burn brush in the timber woods.

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