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November 1, 2010
Francis Cherry was a chancery judge, Arkansas’s thirty-fifth governor, and chairman of the federal Subversive Activities Control Board. Cherry is most remembered for his political ineptness, which resulted in the election of Orval Faubus as governor in 1954. He is shown here with his family outside his home in Jonesboro (Craighead County) in 1952.