Famous People with Name Orval

Orval Leroy Grove            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Orval Leroy Grove: August 29, 1919-April 20, 1992) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Born in West Mineral, Kansas, he spent his entire 10-year career with the Chicago White Sox. He made his debut on May 28, 1940,

Orval Overall            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Orval Overall: (February 2, 1881 - July 14, 1947) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball during the early 1900s.

Orval Eugene Faubus            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Orval Eugene Faubus: was a six-term Democratic Governor of Arkansas, having served from 1955 to 1967. He is best known for his 1957 stand against the desegregation of Little Rock public schools during the Little Rock Crisis, in which he defied a unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court by ordering the Arkansas National Guard to stop African American students from attending Little Rock Central High School. Despite his initial staunch segregationist stances, Faubus much later moderated his positions. He even endorsed the African American minister, the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., in the 1984 Democratic presidential primaries. The nomination, however, went to Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota.

Orval Hobart Mowrer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Orval Hobart Mowrer: American born psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Illinois from 1948 to 1975 known for his research on behaviour therapy. Mowrer practiced psychotherapy in Champaign-Urbana and at Galesburg State Research Hospital. In 1954 Mowrer held the position of president of the American Psychological Association.[1] Mowrer founded Integrity Groups (therapeutic community groups based on principles of honesty, responsibility, and emotional involvement)[2] and was instrumental in establishing GROW groups in the United States.[3]

Orval Howard Hansen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Orval Howard Hansen: was a United States Representative from Idaho. Hansen served as a Republican in the House from 1969 to 1975, representing the state's Second Congressional District.His political career began in the Idaho House of Representatives, where he served four term