Orene Farese
Orene Ellis Farese served in the Mississippi Senate. A Democrat, she served in 1956 and 1958. She lived in Ashland and represented Benton [County, Mississippi|Benton County]. In 1998 she gave an oral history interview. Her husband, lawyer John B. Farese, was also a state legislator. They had four children.
She was born in Mathiston, Mississippi, She graduated from Blue [Mountain College] in 1938. She was a schoolteacher.