Photograph, Orval E. Faubus
Object number2015.008.16
DateOctober 3, 1963
Associated LocationHeber Springs, Arkansas
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions8 1/4 × 10 in. (21 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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Orval Eugene Faubus was born on January 7, 1910 in Madison County. Faubus married Alta Haskins in 1931, they had one son. In 1938, Faubus was elected circuit clerk and recorder of Madison County. After WWII, Faubus was rewarded with an appointment to the state highway commission and later worked in the governor’s office as an administrative assistant. In 1955, he defeated Pratt Remmel for the governorship becoming the thirty-sixth governor of Arkansas. While in office Faubus improved public education including pay increases for teachers, began an overhaul of the State Hospital for the mentally ill, built the Arkansas Children’s Colony, expanded state parks, and paved hundreds of miles of highway. He left office in 1967. Faubus died on December 14, 1994.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. After serving in the United States Navy, Kennedy began his political career in the United States House of Representatives. He was elected Thirty-Fifth President of the United States in 1961 and served until his assassination in 1963. He is most widely known for his establishment of the Peace Corps, the building of the Berlin Wall, and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He married his wife, Jacqueline, in 1953 and the pair had four children. Kennedy passed away on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, after he was shot while traveling in a presidential motorcade.
Status
Not on view
October 3, 1963
October 29, 1961
December 1, 1961
August 1, 1960
1 January 1965