1958 Arkansas gubernatorial election

none related races 1958 United States gubernatorial elections January 2025 September 2023 1958 Arkansas gubernatorial election Arkansas 1924 Presidential no 15.02% 1956 Arkansas gubernatorial election 1956 1960 Arkansas gubernatorial election 1960 November 4, 1958 File:Orval Faubus.jpg 150x150px Orval Faubus Democratic Party (United States) 236,598 82.47% File:1950s-Geo-W-Johnson (cropped).jpg George W. Johnson Republican Party (United States) 50,288 17.53% 1958 Arkansas gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 210px County resultsFaubus: #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90% #0d056c >90% Governor Orval Faubus Democratic Party (United States) Orval Faubus Democratic Party (United States) The 1958 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1958. Incumbent Democratic Governor Orval Faubus won election to an unprecedented third term, defeating Republican nominee George W. Johnson with 82.47% of the vote. Faubus surged in popularity after denying the Little Rock Nine entrance to Central High School with the use of the Arkansas National Guard on September 4, 1957.Woodward C. Vann The Strange Career of Jim Crow 1974 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-514690-5 3rd New York, New York 166–167 Primary elections Primary elections were held on July 29, 1958. By winning over 50% of the vote, Faubus and Johnson avoided run-offs which would have been held on August 12, 1958. Voting Information https://books.google.com/books?id=r2pFlUoHBNYC&pg=PA109 Washington, D.C. Prepared by Office of Armed Forces Information & Education, Department of Defense 1958 Elections 109 March 1958 4 June 2020 Prior to 1958, Republicans had nominated their candidates via convention. It was the first time a contested statewide Republican primary had ever been held in Arkansas, yet due to state law that required the parties to pay the full cost of primary elections, the GOP was only able to hold its primary in nine counties. It was not until 1995 that the legislature, facing a lawsuit from the Republicans, passed a bill for the state to pay the cost of the primaries, which was signed by Democratic Governor Jim Guy Tucker. Democratic primary Candidates Orval Faubus, incumbent Governor Chris Finkbeiner, businessmanReed Roy 1997 Faubus: the Life and Times of an American Prodigal https://books.google.com/books?id=rrynW3L0mp0C&pg=PA242 University of Arkansas Press Fayetteville, Arkansas 242 1-55728-457-1 Lee Ward, judgeMurphy Sara 1997 Breaking the Silence: The Little Rock Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958–1963 https://books.google.com/books?id=4rGe93FcvYQC&pg=PA65 Fayetteville, Arkansas University of Arkansas Press 65 1-55728-456-3 Results Democratic primary resultshttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=560696 AR Governor, 1958 - D Primary Our Campaigns 4 June 2020Congressional Quarterly 1998 100 Orval Faubus (incumbent) Democratic Party (United States) 264,346 68.86 Chris Finkbeiner Democratic Party (United States) 60,173 15.67 Lee Ward Democratic Party (United States) 59,385 15.47 383,904 100.00 Republican primary Candidates George W. Johnson, attorney Arkansas Voters Get Ready To Go To Polls https://newspaperarchive.com/camden-news-aug-11-1958-p-1/ Camden News Camden, Arkansas 11 August 1958 1 4 June 2020 Donald D. Layne, civil engineer Results Republican primary resultshttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=560702 AR Governor, 1958 - R Primary Our Campaigns 4 June 2020Congressional Quarterly 1998 100 George W. Johnson Republican Party (United States) 3,147 71.20 Donald D. Layne Republican Party (United States) 1,273 28.80 4,420 100.00 General election Candidates Orval Faubus, Democratic George W. Johnson, Republican George W. Johnson, an attorney in Greenwood, Sebastian County, deliberately abandoned the race in September 1958.June 2020 He traveled to his son's home in Isle, Minnesota. He told his family, "Mr. Faubus is a fine man and I support him whole-heartedly."June 2020 He genuinely and naively believed that blacks were intellectually deficient and needed their own schools. Results 1958 Arkansas gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=261849 AR Governor, 1958 Our Campaigns 4 June 2020Congressional Quarterly 1998 42 Democratic Party (United States) Orval Faubus (incumbent) 236,598 82.47% +1.82% Republican Party (United States) George W. Johnson 50,288 17.53% -1.82% 186,310 64.94% 286,886 100.00% Democratic Party (United States) References 30em Bibliography Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 1-56802-396-0 Congressional Quarterly 1998 1950s Politics United States 1958 Arkansas Gubernatorial Arkansas gubernatorial election Category:July 1958 in the United States