# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/orval-faubus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:30:10.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/orval-faubus"
name: "Orval Faubus"
slug: "orval-faubus"
description: "Orval Eugene Faubus was an American politician who served as the 36th governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967, as a member of the Southern Democratic Party. He is best known for the 1957 Little Rock Crisis, when he refused to comply with a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, and ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School. He was elected to six two-year terms as governor."
tagline: "36th governor of Arkansas (1910-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Orval_Faubus.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1910-01-07"
deathDate: "1994-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.790728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "اورول فوبس"
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    title: "Orval Faubus"
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    title: "اوروال فاوبوس"
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    title: "اوروال فاوبس"
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    title: "Orval Faubus"
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    title: "Orval Faubus"
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    title: "Orval Faubus"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orval_Faubus"
    title: "Orval Faubus"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump