He painted notable figures like Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Grandma Moses, Ezra Taft Benson, and Sir Alexander Fleming.

[3] Fausett received a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York City when he was only 16 years old.

[6] He traveled abroad with Meiere in 1935 to study art while she sketched in order to work on the St. Michael's Passionate Monastery Church in New Jersey.

[3] Fausett taught at the Henry Street Settlement House Arts and Crafts School in New York.

In 1938, he was commissioned to paint maps of Ulysses S. Grant's battles in the American Civil War for the Works Progress Administration.

[7] Eisenhower also requested that one of Fausett's paintings, Derby View, hang in the White House study.

[9] The painting hung in the president's office for his entire eight-year term, being loaned from the Museum of Modern Art.

[13] Fausett was later commissioned by United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower to be an artist-consultant for the chief of staff of the Air Force.

Fausett was also a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[12] After World War II, in 1945 Fausett bought a home in Dorset, Vermont which he believed was the Cephas Kent Dwelling.

[3] Fausett painted several pictures that were inspired by the Vermont landscape including Pawlet Hills and Warm Days.

[3] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Bureau of Reclamation.