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Ulcer-ridden and looking somewhat haggard, Arkansas' four-term Governor Orval Eugene Faubus, 52, had just announced that he would not seek re-election this year-and last week a motley line of would-be successors was forming...
...moderate who prides himself on his progressive attitudes on most issues; Attorney General J. Frank Holt, also a moderate; former State Senator Marvin Melton, onetime president of the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce; Kenneth Coffelt, an out-and-out segregationist who has promised to "expose the scandals in the Faubus Administration." Even Arkansas' moribund Republican Party hopes to present a serious candidate, and G.O.P. National Committeeman Winthrop Rockefeller, younger brother of New York's Nelson Rockefeller, has been mentioned; he will announce his decision this week...
...Arkansas last fall and hit the hustings in preparation for 1962, Alford's chances seemed about 20/100. Last week Alford took a long look in another direction. He announced that he would run for Governor -a move that might bring him eye to eye with Governor Orval Faubus...
Segregationist Alford was elected to Congress in 1958 with the hefty help of Segregationist Faubus. Angry at moderate Democratic Representative Brooks Hays for opposing him in the 1957 Little Rock school crisis, Faubus put up Alford-a political amateur-as a general election write-in candidate against Hays. The Governor assigned a crony to be Alford's campaign manager, staged a furious eight-day campaign. With segregation fever white-hot in Little Rock, Alford narrowly upset Hays. In Washington he distinguished himself only by compiling the poorest voting record in the Arkansas delegation (he turned...
Inevitably Alford's announcement for Governor, coming four months before such notices are legally due and traditionally given in Arkansas, turned all eyes on Orval Faubus. Rumors spread that Faubus would retire after a record-smashing four terms as Governor or would run for Congress from his own Third District. In fact, Faubus had not yet made up his mind what to do, but the chances were strong that, with the challenge thrown down by Dale Alford, he would run again for Governor...