Photograph, Press - Governor Orval Faubus with wife, Alta.

 
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Photograph, Governor and First Lady Orval Faubus
Photograph, Press - Governor Orval Faubus with wife, Alta.
Photograph, Governor and First Lady Orval Faubus
Photograph, Governor and First Lady Orval Faubus

Photograph, Press - Governor Orval Faubus with wife, Alta.

Object number2017.033.08
DateJuly 29, 1958
Associated LocationHuntsville, Arkansas
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions6 7/16 × 8 7/16 in. (16.4 × 21.4 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA photograph of Governor Faubus and his wife Alta Faubus voting in the Arkansas primary in Huntsville, Arkansas on July 29, 1958. Governor Faubus is standing next to his wife, Alta, wearing a white button-down collared shirt and tie, and holding his ballot underneath his left hand on the table. First Lady Faubus is wearing a white button-down collared short sleeve shirt, skirt, headband, and glasses. She is holding a pencil in her right hand and her ballot is under her left hand. Both are facing towards the camera smiling.

    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.
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