Old Orvil was governor for 12 years, I think, at a salary of $12,000 a year. The year he left office he built what was then a mansion in the hills for $240,000.
My parents loved him because he started the commodities program. Or at least he got credit for it. We ate government cheese, powered eggs and drank powered milk. The cheese was the only thing worth eating.
Orval Faubus’ father was a Eugene Victor Debs advocate: not too popular in AR. Orval though was idolized until c. 1970, when the late “Dandy Dale” Bumpers bumped him off politically.