He was a local judge, and was appointed to the Ohio Supreme Court, serving for a portion of the year 1950.
He was elected prosecuting Attorney of Guernsey County in 1940 as a Democrat, but defeated in a re-election bid in 1944.
Governor Frank Lausche appointed Faught to the seat, and he won election to the unexpired four years of the term in 1946.
[1] Edward C. Turner, an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court died on September 13, 1950.
In 1952 he challenged incumbent Charles B. McClintock for his seat on the 5th District Court of Appeals of Ohio, but lost.