Oran Faville

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| name = Oran Faville

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| image = Oran Faville, First Lieutenant-Governor - History of Iowa.jpg

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| order = 1st

| office = Lieutenant Governor of Iowa

| governor = Ralph P. Lowe

| term_start = 1858

| term_end = 1860

| predecessor = Position Established

| successor = Nicholas J. Rusch

| office1 = Mitchell County Judge

| term_start1 = 1860

| term_end1 = 1862

| predecessor1 = Position Established

| successor1 = Nicholas J. Rusch

|birth_date = {{birth date|1817|10|13}}

|birth_place = Manheim, New York

|death_date = {{death date and age|1872|11|2|1817|10|13}}

|death_place = Waverly, Iowa

|spouse = {{marriage|Maria Peck|1845}}

|children =

|education =

| relatives = Chief Justice Frederick Faville (nephew)

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Oran Faville (October 13, 1817 – November 2, 1872) was an American politician from Iowa.

Early Life

Faville was born in Mannheim, Herkimer County, New York, in 1817, to Thomas Faville and Elizabeth 'Betsy' (West) Faville.{{cite web|url=https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/person?ga=7&personID=6771|title=Oran Faville|access-date=June 20, 2025|publisher= Iowa Legislature}}{{cite web|last=Pike|first=Kathy|url=https://iagenweb.org/mitchell/bios/favioran.htm|title=Biographical Sketch of Oran Faville|date=August 2004|access-date=June 17, 2025}}{{cite web|last=Felland|first=Gordon|url=https://iagenweb.org/boards/mitchell/biographies/index.cgi?read=173222|title=FAVILLE, ORAN|date=October 25, 2007|access-date=June 17, 2025}} He was a great-grandson of Captain John Faville, shown on the Continental rolls as in command at Fishkill, New York, during the American Revolution. Faville graduated from Wesleyan University in 1844.

= Teaching Career =

He became an ancient languages teacher at the Oneida Conference Seminary in Cazenovia, New York. He met a modern languages teacher at the Seminary named Maria Peck. He married Maria on July 24, 1845 in DeWitt, New York and they had no children.

He then taught school in New York and Vermont. In 1852, he was at McKendree College as an ancient languages professor. From 1853 to 1855 he was president of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College.

Political Career

In 1855, he moved to Mitchell County, Iowa due to his failing health.

He was also the first county judge of Mitchell County, Iowa in 1859. Despite its title, the office was predominantly an executive one; the county judge ran the county much in the manner that the modern Board of Supervisors does today.

Faville, a Republican, served as the first Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from 1858 to 1860, under Governor Ralph P. Lowe. During his tenure he helped to get a free tuition law passed as well as abolishing the Office of Superindent of Public Instruction and moved the duties of that office to the Office the Secretary of the Board of Education.

From 1863 to 1867, he was an editor of the Iowa State Journal. He was later the first Iowa Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1864 until 1867 after he was the last secretary of the state board of education before the title of the office was changed to "superintendent of public instruction".

He was also the uncle of Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court Frederick Faville, through his brother Judge and State Representative Amos S. Faville.{{cite web|url=https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=13&personID=5041|title=Representative Amos S. Faville|access-date=June 17, 2025}}

Death

Faville died on November 2, 1872 in Waverly, Iowa.

Notes

External links

[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faull-faxon.html Political Graveyard]

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Category:Lieutenant governors of Iowa

Category:1817 births

Category:Wesleyan University alumni

Category:McKendree University faculty

Category:Ohio Wesleyan University

Category:1872 deaths

Category:19th-century Iowa politicians