Orval Faubus Dies; Ex-Ark. Governor Resisted Integration

Chicago Sun-Times | December 14, 1994| | Copyright

CONWAY, Ark. Former Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus, 84, whose defiance of an order to desegregate Little Rock's Central High School forced President Dwight D. Eisenhower to dispatch federal troops, died today.

Mr. Faubus died shortly after 9 a.m. at his home. A cause of death was not disclosed, but he had spinal cancer.

Mr. Faubus rose from the backwoods poverty of an Ozark Mountain hamlet named Greasy Creek to the state's highest office.

On Sept. 2, 1957, he ordered the National Guard to prevent black students from entering Central High despite a federal court order. Nine blacks were ...

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