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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name=Ernest Angelo, Jr.<br />
|image=Tower and Angelo, 1968.jpg<br />
|caption=Angelo (left) and Senator John Tower <br />
|nationality=[[United States|American]]<br />
|office= [[Mayor]] of [[Midland]], [[Texas]]<br />
|term_start=1972<br />
|term_end=1980<br />
|preceded=Edwin H. Magruder, Jr.<br />
|succeeded=Gaylian Thane Akins<br />
|office2=Texas [[Republican Party|Republican]]<br>National Committeeman<br />
|term_start2=1976<br />
|term_end2=1996<br />
|preceded2=Fred Agnich<br />
|succeeded2=Timothy Lambert<br />
|birth_date=March 7, 1934<br />
|birth_place=[[St. Paul]], [[Minnesota]]<br />
|residence=Bogalusa, Washington Parish<br>[[Louisiana]]<br><br />
Midland, Texas<br />
|occupation=[[Oil]]man<br><br />
[[United States Air Force]] service<br />
|spouse= Betty Lou “Penny” Pendergraft Angelo (married 1958-2023, her death)<br />
|children=Ernest Eugene Angelo<br><br />
Helen Marie Kisner<br><br />
Patricia Louise Angelo<br><br />
Clifford Angelo<br />
|parents=Ernest, Sr., and Helen Marie Moran Angelo<br />
|alma_mater=St. Paul's School<br> (Covington, Louisiana)<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]]<br />
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]}}<br />
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'''Ernest Angelo, Jr.,''' known as '''Ernie Angelo''' (born March 7, 1934), is an [[United States|American]] [[oil]]man and [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[politician]] who served from 1972 to 1980 as [[mayor]] of the West Texas city of [[Midland]] and was in 1976 the co-manager of the presidential [[primary]] campaign in [[Texas]] for [[Ronald W. Reagan]], who challenged sitting [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford]].<br />
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With a 2–1 margin among voters in the state's first binding presidential primary, Reagan won all ninety-six delegate spots at stake. Coupled with a victory five weeks earlier in [[North Carolina]], the historic Texas upset revived Reagan's floundering campaign and made it possible for him to contest [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford]], for their party's nomination, a selection made at the 1976 [[Republican National Convention]] held in [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]]. Without the Texas triumph, which occurred on May 1, 1976, and follow-up victories on May 4 in [[Indiana]] and [[Georgia]], Reagan could have been forced out of the race for the nomination. And without Angelo and his two co-chairmen, [[Ray Barnhart]] of Pasadena, Texas, in [[suburb]]an [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], later the director of the Federal Highway Administration, and [[Barbara Staff]], chairman of the Council of Republican Women's Clubs of [[Dallas|Dallas County]],<ref>Ron Calhoun, "Reagan forces gearing for North Texas campaign," ''Dallas Times Herald'', December 21, 1975, p. F1.</ref> at the helm that year, Reagan might have become viewed as a non-entity with little credibility four years later, when he went on to win the presidency by a wide margin of [[electoral votes]] over the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Jimmy Carter]], who had unseated Ford in the 1976 election.<ref name="hathorn">Billy Hathorn, "Mayor Ernest Angelo, Jr., of Midland and the 96-0 Reagan Sweep of Texas, May 1, 1976," 'West Texas Historical Association Yearbook'' Vol. 86 (2010), pp. 77–89.</ref><br />
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From 1976 to 1996, Angelo served as the [[Republican National Committee]]man for Texas, a position which made him an automatic member of the party's national committee.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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==Background==<br />
Angelo was born in [[St. Paul]], [[Minnesota]], to Ernest Angelo, Sr. (1894–1971), and the former Helen Marie Moran (1895–2003). The senior Angelo was a college [[professor]] at [[West Virginia University]] in Morgantown, [[West Virginia]] and the [[University of Minnesota]] in [[Minneapolis]]-St. Paul before he accepted a position with the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry in Bogalusa in Washington Parish. The junior Angelo hence grew up in Bogalusa and in Covington in St. Tammany Parish in the [[New Orleans]] [[suburb]]s. He graduated in 1952 from the [[Roman Catholic]] St. Paul's School in Covington and then entered the petroleum engineering program at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], from which he graduated in 1956. Thereafter, he served briefly in the [[United States Air Force]] followed by eight years in the Air Force Reserves.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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After he graduated from LSU, Angelo took a position from 1956 to 1962 with Gulf Oil in Crane, Texas, south of [[Odessa, Texas|Odessa]]. He and his wife, the former Betty Lou "Penny" Pendergraft (1935-2023), who grew up in [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]] and Houston, made their home in Midland, halfway between [[Fort Worth]] and [[El Paso]]. The couple has four children, Ernest Eugene Angelo of Carmel, [[Indiana]]; Helen Marie Kisner, married to Frank Kisner, a retired lieutenant general in the Air Force; Patricia Louise Angelo of Lewisville, Texas, and Clifford Angelo (born Father's Day weekend 1973), a consultant and entrepreneur.<ref name="hathorn"/> <br />
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From 1962 to 1964, Angelo was affiliated with Sohio Petroleum. In August 1964, Angelo began his own company, Discovery Exploration<ref name=thecb>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/index.cfm?objectid=A369131D-0DED-4F4F-4E6BDEA9D0F8AC0C|title=Ernest Angelo, Jr.: Managing Partner, Discovery Exploration|publisher=thecb.state.tx.us|accessdate=March 10, 2011}}</ref> in Midland with partners Don L. Sparks and Charles Webb Farish.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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==Midland's "Mr. Republican"==<br />
Angelo joined the Young Republicans while a student at LSU. In Midland, he continued his association with the Republican Party. In 1968, Angelo made the first of two unsuccessful runs as a Republican candidate for the Texas State Senate, having lost to Democrat W. E. "Pete" Snelson, then of Midland. Snelson had unseated long-term Senator [[Dorsey B. Hardeman]] of [[San Angelo, Texas|San Angelo]] in the Democratic primary. In that same 1968 general election, [[Tom Craddick]] of Midland, was elected at the age of twenty-five to the Texas House of Representatives. In 2003, Craddick began a six-year stint as House Speaker, the first Republican speaker since [[Reconstruction]]. Craddick still serves as the senior member of the Texas House, but he was toppled as Speaker in 2009 by a combination of [[Moderate Republicans]] and Democrats, who were organized by the still-sitting Speaker, [[Joe Straus]] of [[San Antonio]]. Craddick and Angelo have been neighbors since the early 1970s. The two oilmen are godparents to the other's children.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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The 96-0 Reagan landslide made impressive headlines and followed thereafter with four more at-large Reagan delegates chosen at the state convention. Angelo said the victory was possible because the party was allowed to write its own rules. Some 420,000 voted in the Republican primary in which Reagan polled 278,300 votes to Ford's 139,994. In the Democratic primary, two candidates easily outpolled Reagan, and a third nearly matched him. Jimmy Carter received 736,032 votes; U.S. Senator [[Lloyd Bentsen]], a favorite son for President and a candidate for senatorial reelection, polled 343,033 votes, and [[George Wallace]], the [[governor]] of [[Alabama]], drew 270,798 votes. Carter, Bentsen, and Wallace hence polled some three times as many votes as Reagan and Ford combined.<ref>[[Austin]]: Texas State Archives, 1976 Republican presidential primary returns.</ref> The 1976 primary was the first election in Texas in which counties with at least 5 percent [[Mexico|Mexican]]-[[United States|American]] ethnicity were required to use bilingual ballots.<ref name="laredo">''The Laredo Morning Times'', May 2, 1976.</ref><br />
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While he co-managed the Reagan campaign, Mayor Angelo was chosen to be a national committeeman, a position that he retained for twenty years. After Reagan became president, Angelo tried again for the Midland-based state Senate seat, but he lost in 1982 to the Democrat William “Bill” Sims of San Angelo in Tom Green County, 52,868 (47.9 percent) to 57,522 (52.1 percent).<ref>State of Texas, Archives Division, General election returns for state Senate, November 2, 1982.</ref> This race occurred about a decade before the region between Midland and San Angelo moved strongly into the Republican camp. In that same year, [[Bill Clements]] of Dallas, the first Texas Republican governor of Texas since 1873, and Houston oilman [[George Strake, Jr.]], the GOP candidate for lieutenant governor and later the state party chairman, were crushed in an avalanche of Democratic votes. It was the last year through at least 2018 that the Democrats in Texas would win all of the statewide races, including judgeships. Angelo noted that the poor Republican prospects in Texas in 1982 were attributed to a downturn in the national economy, as Democrats rebounded nationwide in President Reagan's first mid-term election. <br />
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Angelo said that his defeat by Sims was a “blessing” because he needed to work full-time after 1983 on his business, and his being a state senator would have been too time-consuming to protect his company during a slump. Angelo recalls Clements' defeat by [[Mark White]] in 1982 as his own most personally disappointing election loss. Only two years earlier, his most exhilarating victory had been that of Reagan over President Carter just four years after Angelo, Barnhart, and Staff had worked to resurrect Reagan in the Texas primary.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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The political organization Americans for Prosperity credits Angelo with "the courage to buck the Republican establishment and support Ronald Reagan. The rest is history. [Angelo should] write a book so we can know more of the details. Ernest Angelo had courage ... Had it not been for Ernest Angelo and Texas in 1976, Reagan may not have become President."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americansforprosperity.org/022311-ernest-angelo-shaped-history-helped-launch-reagans-presidential-bid|title=Ernest Angelo shaped history, helped launch Reagan's Presidential bid |publisher=Americansforprosperity.org |accessdateApril 6, 2019}}</ref><br />
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==Election as mayor==<br />
Angelo's entry into municipal politics was not the result of personal motivation but instead a plea from two friends and fellow businessmen, his neighbor Tom Craddick and Craddick's predecessor in the legislature, former Representative [[Frank Kell Cahoon]], who had been the only Republican in the Texas House of Representatives in the 1965 legislative session. Mayor Edwin H. Magruder, Jr., who had an impressive [[World War II]] record, did not seek a third two-year term in 1972.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_c89eb33c-102c-5ec1-a0ce-639df8965b95.html#user-comment-area|title=Shanna Sissom, "Magruder led a charmed life in peace and war", January 12, 2011|publisher=Mywesttexas.com|accessdate=March 8, 2011}}</ref><br />
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Craddick believed that the leading candidate for mayor, Mayor Pro Tem [[Pat M. Baskin]], a former chairman of the Midland County Democratic Executive Committee, would use the office to try to unseat Craddick's bid for a third term in the House in the 1972 general election. Angelo agreed to run for mayor if Cahoon would seek one of the at-large city council seats. The deal was struck, and both ran and won. Angelo recalls his having defeated Baskin by 150 votes out of some 10,000 cast, a plurality of votes in a system that did not require a runoff election. Angelo considered his opponent to be on the left side of the Democratic Party, but later Baskin switched parties, as West Texas moved increasingly away from the Democrats. Baskin subsequently served as a Republican state court judge. Angelo recalls that Baskin was "a gentleman," popular by virtue of his friendly personality and his involvement in community theater.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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==Municipal matters==<br />
Mayor Angelo soon found himself involved in the details of municipal matters. He recalls that Midland was low on financial reserves with less than $300,000 in its unappropriated surplus general fund. He and the council hence called for a [[sales tax]] election coupled with a lowering of city [[property tax]]es even though such a measure had been rejected a year earlier in 1971. No funds were spent to advertise the tax measure. Angelo and the council took on the responsibility of informing voters of the fiscal problems facing the city. The measure passed easily, and Midland prevailed strongly economically throughout the 1970s.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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Under Angelo, the city modernized Midland International Airport. Though it is used by neighboring Odessa, the airport is entirely the possession of the City of Midland. When the University of Texas of the Permian Basin became a four-year institution, plans had been to merge Midland and Odessa junior colleges on the Midland campus under a common community college district. Odessa voters, however, voted down the proposal, reflecting longstanding divisions between the two municipalities of common size and different focus in neighboring Midland and Ector counties. Angelo presided over the building of a new central fire station and Midland Center, a civic meeting facility which opened downtown with a large clientele. The first shopping mall, developed by the Simon Company of [[Indianapolis]], Indiana opened during Angelo's tenure. Federal block grants were employed to upgrade Midland streets and to pave the remaining dirt and gravel roads within the city. Angelo said that the city manager, the late James W. Brown, and his assistant, Fred Poe, carried most of the burden of administrative details and provided continuity during his years as mayor. There were some problems with planning and zoning, but the water and sewer infrastructure proved more than adequate.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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Angelo worked with four at-large council members, and he had the power to break ties. Now, the Midland City Council has six single-member districts with the mayor able to vote on all matters though his vote might not usually be needed except to break a tie. Angelo said the decision by the U. S. courts to require single-member districts in legislative elections has not been productive, at least in Midland. In the single-member concept, council members tend to be focused only on the parochial nature of their districts, rather than the well-being of a city as a whole. Mayor Angelo won again in 1974, 1976, and 1978 with token or no opposition. He did not run in 1980 and was succeeded by Gaylian Thane Akins (1933–2005), also a petroleum engineer in Midland. Angelo jokes that he took office during a downturn in the West Texas oil industry and “my leadership and the Arab oil embargo got Midland booming”, as greater demand developed for drilling West Texas petroleum. Under the Angelo administration, Midland property taxes became the lowest among the twenty-five largest population centers in Texas. In later years, Texans found that tax rates themselves were less critical in calculating their payments than the rising assessed values of their properties.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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==Political matters==<br />
Angelo recalls a trip to Midland by [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Tower]] in 1975, when Angelo informed Tower that he would be working in the forthcoming campaign to draft and nominate Reagan. Angelo recalls Tower as having told him that supporting Reagan would be "a dumb thing to do."<ref name="hathorn"/> At the time, all Republican U.S. senators except [[Jesse Helms]] of North Carolina and [[Paul Laxalt]] of [[Nevada]] were committed to Ford.<ref name="hathorn"/> Tower blamed Ford's defeat in Texas on "Dixiecrats ... the Reagan organization, aided by former Wallace leaders, made a concerted and obviously successful effort to get the Wallace vote in the Republican primary. In addition some section of Ford’s defense and foreign policy alienated some voters who may otherwise have cast their ballot for the president.”<ref name="laredo"/><br />
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None of the Ford supporters from Texas were delegates to the national convention in Kansas City. Angelo recalls Tower as having "begged" him to allocate a delegate slot for the Senator. Angelo said that Tower could be a delegate if he were committed to supporting Reagan, an impossible condition for Tower because of his longstanding commitment to President Ford. Tower hence was not a delegate to the 1976 convention because Angelo was mindful that a close convention contest could have been decided by a handful of delegate votes. Angelo said that he always personally liked and admired Tower though they disagreed on some issues: "John was the best extemporaneous speaker and solid as a rock on most issues."<ref name="hathorn"/> As time passed though, Tower alienated the conservative wing of his party with his support for [[abortion]] and opposition to Reagan's [[Strategic Defense Initiative]].<ref>[[John Tower]], ''Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir'' ([[Boston, Massachusetts]]: Little Brown and Company, 1991), pp. 42, 118–119.</ref> Tower did not seek a fifth term in 1984 and was succeeded by [[Phil Gramm]], a former [[economics]] [[professor]] at [[Texas A&M University]] in College Station.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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Angelo recalls having attempted to mediate a political dispute between Tower and his 1972 intraparty rival, state Senator [[Henry C. Grover]] of Houston, the party's gubernatorial nominee against Democrat [[Dolph Briscoe]] of Uvalde. Grover wanted to install Angelo as state party chairman to replace the Tower partisan, George Williford of Austin. Angelo arranged a meeting in a Houston hotel between Tower and Grover, and the two got into a shouting match and nearly came to blows. "Hank was his own worst enemy. He couldn't get along, let personal things interfere in the political realm," recalls Angelo. In retrospect, Angelo theorizes that the 1972 division within the Texas GOP delayed the election of the first Republican governor, Bill Clements in 1978, beyond what otherwismay have been possible.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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Angelo's tenure as mayor corresponded partly with that of [[Jim Reese]] in Odessa. When veteran Democratic U.S. Representative George Herman Mahon (1900-1985) of [[Lubbock]] retired, an open election developed for the seat in 1978. Reese entered the Republican primary; so did 31-year-old [[George W. Bush]], son [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], the man would become vice president two years later. Bush won the primary and then lost the general election to then Democrat (later Republican) Kent Hance, subsequently a Texas railroad commissioner, the chancellor of [[Texas Tech University]], and a particularly successful [[lobbyist]] but never a governor or U.S. senator. Angelo stayed out of the Reese-Bush primary, for he had developed good relations with both men.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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In the 1980 Republican presidential campaign, Angelo again worked for Reagan, having been the deputy Reagan-Bush chairman under Governor Clements as well as campaign manager of the 1980 general election campaign in Texas. At the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Angelo was chairman of the National Advisory Board for Reagan-Bush. He was chairman of the Texas delegation in 1980 and 1984.<ref name=potash>{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=46661932&ticker=ICP:CN&previousCapId=45248855&previousTitle=IC%20POTASH%20CORP|title=Ernest Angelo, Jr., B.Sc.|publisher=investing.businessweek.com|accessdate=March 10, 2011}}</ref><br />
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In 1996, Angelo stepped down as national committeeman and was succeeded by Timothy Lambert of Lubbock, a social conservative active in the homeschooling movement. Angelo remains committed to Republican affairs as an insider with comparatively little public attention focused upon him. He has been a fund-raiser for former Railroad Commissioner [[Michael Williams|Michael Lawrence Williams]], a conservative [[African American]] originally from Midland, who in 2012 lost a Republican primary for the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Texas' 25th congressional district, after previously indicating that he would seek the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the retiring [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]].<ref>"The Leadership Committee: Michael Williams for U.S. Senate," Williamsfortexas.com, accessed October 18, 2010.</ref><br />
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==Angelo today==<br />
Angelo is affiliated with the Texas Society of Professional Engineers as both the Permian Basin president and the state director. In 1973, he was named "Permian Basin Engineer of the Year." In 1981, he was appointed to the National Petroleum Council by then [[United States Secretary of Energy]] James B. Edwards, a Republican former governor of [[South Carolina]]. He served on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board<ref name=thecb/> under Governor Clements, on the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission under Governor George W. Bush,<ref name=thecb/> and as chairman of the Texas Public Safety Commission under former Governor [[Rick Perry]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://governor.state.tx.us/news/appointment/2746/|title=Gov. Perry Appoints Angelo to Texas Public Safety Commission, January 10, 2005|publisher=governor.state.tx.us|accessdate=March 10, 2011}}</ref><br />
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n 2008, Angelo garnered the John Ben Shepperd Award for Outstanding Texas Leadership, an honor named for the former state attorney general who called both Gladewater and Odessa home.<ref name="hathorn"/><ref>"Midland's Ernie Angelo named Shepperd Institute's outstanding "Leader of the Year", ''Midland Reporter-Telegram'', September 26, 2008.</ref> Angelo that same year became a member and director of the Trigon Uranium and the Intercontinental Potash corporations.<ref name=potash/><br />
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Angelo has been a steadfast supporter of Governor Rick Perry, who turned back a determined intra-party challenge on March 2, 2010 from U.S. Senator [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] before he defeated the Democratic nominee, former Houston Mayor William Henry "Bill" White. Angelo said that many in the oil industry in Midland supported Perry "to ensure the pro-business climate continues. Midland has a reputation of being a conservative pro-business community."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_581aa538-3a4c-5657-893f-5e18bc08a4a6.html|title=Kathleen Thurber, "Gov. Perry raises more than White in Midland, statewide," October 5, 2010|publisher=''Midland Reporter-Telegram|accessdate=March 20, 2011}}</ref><br />
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Angelo is still active as an oilman in Midland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manta.com/c/mm2fpgn/ernest-angelo-office|title=Ernest Angelo office|publisher=manta.com|accessdate=March 10, 2011}}</ref> He and his wife reside in the same house on Stanolind Avenue that they bought c. 1970. The Minnesota native who was reared in Louisiana is an adopted West Texan describes Midland as "a very open community ... where people can excel in any endeavor." He attributes the political climate in Midland and West Texas to the oil and [[natural gas]] industries: "These are people with a can-do entrepreneurial independence who suiespport a conservative philosophy of government."<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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In 2012, Angelo was a leading supporter of [[Christi Craddick]], his neighbor Tom Craddick's daughter, who won election to the Texas Railroad Commission and reelection in 2018.<br />
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name=Ernest Angelo, Jr.<br />
|image=Tower and Angelo, 1968.jpg<br />
|caption=Angelo (left) and Senator John Tower <br />
|nationality=[[United States|American]]<br />
|office= [[Mayor]] of [[Midland]], [[Texas]]<br />
|term_start=1972<br />
|term_end=1980<br />
|preceded=Edwin H. Magruder, Jr.<br />
|succeeded=Gaylian Thane Akins<br />
|office2=Texas [[Republican Party|Republican]]<br>National Committeeman<br />
|term_start2=1976<br />
|term_end2=1996<br />
|preceded2=Fred Agnich<br />
|succeeded2=Timothy Lambert<br />
|birth_date=March 7, 1934<br />
|birth_place=[[St. Paul]], [[Minnesota]]<br />
|residence=Bogalusa, Washington Parish<br>[[Louisiana]]<br><br />
Midland, Texas<br />
|occupation=[[Oil]]man<br><br />
[[United States Air Force]] service<br />
|spouse= Betty Lou “Penny” Pendergraft Angelo (married 1958-2023, her death)<br />
|children=Ernest Eugene Angelo<br><br />
Helen Marie Kisner<br><br />
Patricia Louise Angelo<br><br />
Clifford Angelo<br />
|parents=Ernest, Sr., and Helen Marie Moran Angelo<br />
|alma_mater=St. Paul's School (Covington, Louisiana)<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]]<br />
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]}}<br />
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'''Ernest Angelo, Jr.,''' known as '''Ernie Angelo''' (born March 7, 1934), is an [[United States|American]] [[oil]]man and [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[politician]] who served from 1972 to 1980 as [[mayor]] of the West Texas city of [[Midland]] and was in 1976 the co-manager of the presidential [[primary]] campaign in [[Texas]] for [[Ronald W. Reagan]], who challenged sitting [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford]].<br />
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With a 2–1 margin among voters in the state's first binding presidential primary, Reagan won all ninety-six delegate spots at stake. Coupled with a victory five weeks earlier in [[North Carolina]], the historic Texas upset revived Reagan's floundering campaign and made it possible for him to contest [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford]], for their party's nomination, a selection made at the 1976 [[Republican National Convention]] held in [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]]. Without the Texas triumph, which occurred on May 1, 1976, and follow-up victories on May 4 in [[Indiana]] and [[Georgia]], Reagan could have been forced out of the race for the nomination. And without Angelo and his two co-chairmen, [[Ray Barnhart]] of Pasadena, Texas, in [[suburb]]an [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], later the director of the Federal Highway Administration, and [[Barbara Staff]], chairman of the Council of Republican Women's Clubs of [[Dallas|Dallas County]],<ref>Ron Calhoun, "Reagan forces gearing for North Texas campaign," ''Dallas Times Herald'', December 21, 1975, p. F1.</ref> at the helm that year, Reagan might have become viewed as a non-entity with little credibility four years later, when he went on to win the presidency by a wide margin of [[electoral votes]] over the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Jimmy Carter]], who had unseated Ford in the 1976 election.<ref name="hathorn">Billy Hathorn, "Mayor Ernest Angelo, Jr., of Midland and the 96-0 Reagan Sweep of Texas, May 1, 1976," 'West Texas Historical Association Yearbook'' Vol. 86 (2010), pp. 77–89.</ref><br />
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From 1976 to 1996, Angelo served as the [[Republican National Committee]]man for Texas, a position which made him an automatic member of the party's national committee.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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==Background==<br />
Angelo was born in [[St. Paul]], [[Minnesota]], to Ernest Angelo, Sr. (1894–1971), and the former Helen Marie Moran (1895–2003). The senior Angelo was a college [[professor]] at [[West Virginia University]] in Morgantown, [[West Virginia]] and the [[University of Minnesota]] in [[Minneapolis]]-St. Paul before he accepted a position with the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry in Bogalusa in Washington Parish. The junior Angelo hence grew up in Bogalusa and in Covington in St. Tammany Parish in the [[New Orleans]] [[suburb]]s. He graduated in 1952 from the [[Roman Catholic]] St. Paul's School in Covington and then entered the petroleum engineering program at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], from which he graduated in 1956. Thereafter, he served briefly in the [[United States Air Force]] followed by eight years in the Air Force Reserves.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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After he graduated from LSU, Angelo took a position from 1956 to 1962 with Gulf Oil in Crane, Texas, south of [[Odessa, Texas|Odessa]]. He and his wife, the former Betty Lou "Penny" Pendergraft (1935-2023), who grew up in [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]] and Houston, made their home in Midland, halfway between [[Fort Worth]] and [[El Paso]]. The couple has four children, Ernest Eugene Angelo of Carmel, [[Indiana]]; Helen Marie Kisner, married to Frank Kisner, a retired lieutenant general in the Air Force; Patricia Louise Angelo of Lewisville, Texas, and Clifford Angelo (born Father's Day weekend 1973), a consultant and entrepreneur.<ref name="hathorn"/> <br />
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From 1962 to 1964, Angelo was affiliated with Sohio Petroleum. In August 1964, Angelo began his own company, Discovery Exploration<ref name=thecb>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/index.cfm?objectid=A369131D-0DED-4F4F-4E6BDEA9D0F8AC0C|title=Ernest Angelo, Jr.: Managing Partner, Discovery Exploration|publisher=thecb.state.tx.us|accessdate=March 10, 2011}}</ref> in Midland with partners Don L. Sparks and Charles Webb Farish.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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==Midland's "Mr. Republican"==<br />
Angelo joined the Young Republicans while a student at LSU. In Midland, he continued his association with the Republican Party. In 1968, Angelo made the first of two unsuccessful runs as a Republican candidate for the Texas State Senate, having lost to Democrat W. E. "Pete" Snelson, then of Midland. Snelson had unseated long-term Senator [[Dorsey B. Hardeman]] of [[San Angelo, Texas|San Angelo]] in the Democratic primary. In that same 1968 general election, [[Tom Craddick]] of Midland, was elected at the age of twenty-five to the Texas House of Representatives. In 2003, Craddick began a six-year stint as House Speaker, the first Republican speaker since [[Reconstruction]]. Craddick still serves as the senior member of the Texas House, but he was toppled as Speaker in 2009 by a combination of [[Moderate Republicans]] and Democrats, who were organized by the still-sitting Speaker, [[Joe Straus]] of [[San Antonio]]. Craddick and Angelo have been neighbors since the early 1970s. The two oilmen are godparents to the other's children.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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The 96-0 Reagan landslide made impressive headlines and followed thereafter with four more at-large Reagan delegates chosen at the state convention. Angelo said the victory was possible because the party was allowed to write its own rules. Some 420,000 voted in the Republican primary in which Reagan polled 278,300 votes to Ford's 139,994. In the Democratic primary, two candidates easily outpolled Reagan, and a third nearly matched him. Jimmy Carter received 736,032 votes; U.S. Senator [[Lloyd Bentsen]], a favorite son for President and a candidate for senatorial reelection, polled 343,033 votes, and [[George Wallace]], the [[governor]] of [[Alabama]], drew 270,798 votes. Carter, Bentsen, and Wallace hence polled some three times as many votes as Reagan and Ford combined.<ref>[[Austin]]: Texas State Archives, 1976 Republican presidential primary returns.</ref> The 1976 primary was the first election in Texas in which counties with at least 5 percent [[Mexico|Mexican]]-[[United States|American]] ethnicity were required to use bilingual ballots.<ref name="laredo">''The Laredo Morning Times'', May 2, 1976.</ref><br />
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While he co-managed the Reagan campaign, Mayor Angelo was chosen to be a national committeeman, a position that he retained for twenty years. After Reagan became president, Angelo tried again for the Midland-based state Senate seat, but he lost in 1982 to the Democrat William “Bill” Sims of San Angelo in Tom Green County, 52,868 (47.9 percent) to 57,522 (52.1 percent).<ref>State of Texas, Archives Division, General election returns for state Senate, November 2, 1982.</ref> This race occurred about a decade before the region between Midland and San Angelo moved strongly into the Republican camp. In that same year, [[Bill Clements]] of Dallas, the first Texas Republican governor of Texas since 1873, and Houston oilman [[George Strake, Jr.]], the GOP candidate for lieutenant governor and later the state party chairman, were crushed in an avalanche of Democratic votes. It was the last year through at least 2018 that the Democrats in Texas would win all of the statewide races, including judgeships. Angelo noted that the poor Republican prospects in Texas in 1982 were attributed to a downturn in the national economy, as Democrats rebounded nationwide in President Reagan's first mid-term election. <br />
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Angelo said that his defeat by Sims was a “blessing” because he needed to work full-time after 1983 on his business, and his being a state senator would have been too time-consuming to protect his company during a slump. Angelo recalls Clements' defeat by [[Mark White]] in 1982 as his own most personally disappointing election loss. Only two years earlier, his most exhilarating victory had been that of Reagan over President Carter just four years after Angelo, Barnhart, and Staff had worked to resurrect Reagan in the Texas primary.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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The political organization Americans for Prosperity credits Angelo with "the courage to buck the Republican establishment and support Ronald Reagan. The rest is history. [Angelo should] write a book so we can know more of the details. Ernest Angelo had courage ... Had it not been for Ernest Angelo and Texas in 1976, Reagan may not have become President."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americansforprosperity.org/022311-ernest-angelo-shaped-history-helped-launch-reagans-presidential-bid|title=Ernest Angelo shaped history, helped launch Reagan's Presidential bid |publisher=Americansforprosperity.org |accessdateApril 6, 2019}}</ref><br />
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==Election as mayor==<br />
Angelo's entry into municipal politics was not the result of personal motivation but instead a plea from two friends and fellow businessmen, his neighbor Tom Craddick and Craddick's predecessor in the legislature, former Representative [[Frank Kell Cahoon]], who had been the only Republican in the Texas House of Representatives in the 1965 legislative session. Mayor Edwin H. Magruder, Jr., who had an impressive [[World War II]] record, did not seek a third two-year term in 1972.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_c89eb33c-102c-5ec1-a0ce-639df8965b95.html#user-comment-area|title=Shanna Sissom, "Magruder led a charmed life in peace and war", January 12, 2011|publisher=Mywesttexas.com|accessdate=March 8, 2011}}</ref><br />
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Craddick believed that the leading candidate for mayor, Mayor Pro Tem [[Pat M. Baskin]], a former chairman of the Midland County Democratic Executive Committee, would use the office to try to unseat Craddick's bid for a third term in the House in the 1972 general election. Angelo agreed to run for mayor if Cahoon would seek one of the at-large city council seats. The deal was struck, and both ran and won. Angelo recalls his having defeated Baskin by 150 votes out of some 10,000 cast, a plurality of votes in a system that did not require a runoff election. Angelo considered his opponent to be on the left side of the Democratic Party, but later Baskin switched parties, as West Texas moved increasingly away from the Democrats. Baskin subsequently served as a Republican state court judge. Angelo recalls that Baskin was "a gentleman," popular by virtue of his friendly personality and his involvement in community theater.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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==Municipal matters==<br />
Mayor Angelo soon found himself involved in the details of municipal matters. He recalls that Midland was low on financial reserves with less than $300,000 in its unappropriated surplus general fund. He and the council hence called for a [[sales tax]] election coupled with a lowering of city [[property tax]]es even though such a measure had been rejected a year earlier in 1971. No funds were spent to advertise the tax measure. Angelo and the council took on the responsibility of informing voters of the fiscal problems facing the city. The measure passed easily, and Midland prevailed strongly economically throughout the 1970s.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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Under Angelo, the city modernized Midland International Airport. Though it is used by neighboring Odessa, the airport is entirely the possession of the City of Midland. When the University of Texas of the Permian Basin became a four-year institution, plans had been to merge Midland and Odessa junior colleges on the Midland campus under a common community college district. Odessa voters, however, voted down the proposal, reflecting longstanding divisions between the two municipalities of common size and different focus in neighboring Midland and Ector counties. Angelo presided over the building of a new central fire station and Midland Center, a civic meeting facility which opened downtown with a large clientele. The first shopping mall, developed by the Simon Company of [[Indianapolis]], Indiana opened during Angelo's tenure. Federal block grants were employed to upgrade Midland streets and to pave the remaining dirt and gravel roads within the city. Angelo said that the city manager, the late James W. Brown, and his assistant, Fred Poe, carried most of the burden of administrative details and provided continuity during his years as mayor. There were some problems with planning and zoning, but the water and sewer infrastructure proved more than adequate.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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Angelo worked with four at-large council members, and he had the power to break ties. Now, the Midland City Council has six single-member districts with the mayor able to vote on all matters though his vote might not usually be needed except to break a tie. Angelo said the decision by the U. S. courts to require single-member districts in legislative elections has not been productive, at least in Midland. In the single-member concept, council members tend to be focused only on the parochial nature of their districts, rather than the well-being of a city as a whole. Mayor Angelo won again in 1974, 1976, and 1978 with token or no opposition. He did not run in 1980 and was succeeded by Gaylian Thane Akins (1933–2005), also a petroleum engineer in Midland. Angelo jokes that he took office during a downturn in the West Texas oil industry and “my leadership and the Arab oil embargo got Midland booming”, as greater demand developed for drilling West Texas petroleum. Under the Angelo administration, Midland property taxes became the lowest among the twenty-five largest population centers in Texas. In later years, Texans found that tax rates themselves were less critical in calculating their payments than the rising assessed values of their properties.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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==Political matters==<br />
Angelo recalls a trip to Midland by [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Tower]] in 1975, when Angelo informed Tower that he would be working in the forthcoming campaign to draft and nominate Reagan. Angelo recalls Tower as having told him that supporting Reagan would be "a dumb thing to do."<ref name="hathorn"/> At the time, all Republican U.S. senators except [[Jesse Helms]] of North Carolina and [[Paul Laxalt]] of [[Nevada]] were committed to Ford.<ref name="hathorn"/> Tower blamed Ford's defeat in Texas on "Dixiecrats ... the Reagan organization, aided by former Wallace leaders, made a concerted and obviously successful effort to get the Wallace vote in the Republican primary. In addition some section of Ford’s defense and foreign policy alienated some voters who may otherwise have cast their ballot for the president.”<ref name="laredo"/><br />
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None of the Ford supporters from Texas were delegates to the national convention in Kansas City. Angelo recalls Tower as having "begged" him to allocate a delegate slot for the Senator. Angelo said that Tower could be a delegate if he were committed to supporting Reagan, an impossible condition for Tower because of his longstanding commitment to President Ford. Tower hence was not a delegate to the 1976 convention because Angelo was mindful that a close convention contest could have been decided by a handful of delegate votes. Angelo said that he always personally liked and admired Tower though they disagreed on some issues: "John was the best extemporaneous speaker and solid as a rock on most issues."<ref name="hathorn"/> As time passed though, Tower alienated the conservative wing of his party with his support for [[abortion]] and opposition to Reagan's [[Strategic Defense Initiative]].<ref>[[John Tower]], ''Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir'' ([[Boston, Massachusetts]]: Little Brown and Company, 1991), pp. 42, 118–119.</ref> Tower did not seek a fifth term in 1984 and was succeeded by [[Phil Gramm]], a former [[economics]] [[professor]] at [[Texas A&M University]] in College Station.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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Angelo recalls having attempted to mediate a political dispute between Tower and his 1972 intraparty rival, state Senator [[Henry C. Grover]] of Houston, the party's gubernatorial nominee against Democrat [[Dolph Briscoe]] of Uvalde. Grover wanted to install Angelo as state party chairman to replace the Tower partisan, George Williford of Austin. Angelo arranged a meeting in a Houston hotel between Tower and Grover, and the two got into a shouting match and nearly came to blows. "Hank was his own worst enemy. He couldn't get along, let personal things interfere in the political realm," recalls Angelo. In retrospect, Angelo theorizes that the 1972 division within the Texas GOP delayed the election of the first Republican governor, Bill Clements in 1978, beyond what otherwismay have been possible.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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Angelo's tenure as mayor corresponded partly with that of [[Jim Reese]] in Odessa. When veteran Democratic U.S. Representative George Herman Mahon (1900-1985) of [[Lubbock]] retired, an open election developed for the seat in 1978. Reese entered the Republican primary; so did 31-year-old [[George W. Bush]], son [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], the man would become vice president two years later. Bush won the primary and then lost the general election to then Democrat (later Republican) Kent Hance, subsequently a Texas railroad commissioner, the chancellor of [[Texas Tech University]], and a particularly successful [[lobbyist]] but never a governor or U.S. senator. Angelo stayed out of the Reese-Bush primary, for he had developed good relations with both men.<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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In the 1980 Republican presidential campaign, Angelo again worked for Reagan, having been the deputy Reagan-Bush chairman under Governor Clements as well as campaign manager of the 1980 general election campaign in Texas. At the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Angelo was chairman of the National Advisory Board for Reagan-Bush. He was chairman of the Texas delegation in 1980 and 1984.<ref name=potash>{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=46661932&ticker=ICP:CN&previousCapId=45248855&previousTitle=IC%20POTASH%20CORP|title=Ernest Angelo, Jr., B.Sc.|publisher=investing.businessweek.com|accessdate=March 10, 2011}}</ref><br />
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In 1996, Angelo stepped down as national committeeman and was succeeded by Timothy Lambert of Lubbock, a social conservative active in the homeschooling movement. Angelo remains committed to Republican affairs as an insider with comparatively little public attention focused upon him. He has been a fund-raiser for former Railroad Commissioner [[Michael Williams|Michael Lawrence Williams]], a conservative [[African American]] originally from Midland, who in 2012 lost a Republican primary for the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Texas' 25th congressional district, after previously indicating that he would seek the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the retiring [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]].<ref>"The Leadership Committee: Michael Williams for U.S. Senate," Williamsfortexas.com, accessed October 18, 2010.</ref><br />
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==Angelo today==<br />
Angelo is affiliated with the Texas Society of Professional Engineers as both the Permian Basin president and the state director. In 1973, he was named "Permian Basin Engineer of the Year." In 1981, he was appointed to the National Petroleum Council by then [[United States Secretary of Energy]] James B. Edwards, a Republican former governor of [[South Carolina]]. He served on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board<ref name=thecb/> under Governor Clements, on the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission under Governor George W. Bush,<ref name=thecb/> and as chairman of the Texas Public Safety Commission under former Governor [[Rick Perry]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://governor.state.tx.us/news/appointment/2746/|title=Gov. Perry Appoints Angelo to Texas Public Safety Commission, January 10, 2005|publisher=governor.state.tx.us|accessdate=March 10, 2011}}</ref><br />
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n 2008, Angelo garnered the John Ben Shepperd Award for Outstanding Texas Leadership, an honor named for the former state attorney general who called both Gladewater and Odessa home.<ref name="hathorn"/><ref>"Midland's Ernie Angelo named Shepperd Institute's outstanding "Leader of the Year", ''Midland Reporter-Telegram'', September 26, 2008.</ref> Angelo that same year became a member and director of the Trigon Uranium and the Intercontinental Potash corporations.<ref name=potash/><br />
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Angelo has been a steadfast supporter of Governor Rick Perry, who turned back a determined intra-party challenge on March 2, 2010 from U.S. Senator [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] before he defeated the Democratic nominee, former Houston Mayor William Henry "Bill" White. Angelo said that many in the oil industry in Midland supported Perry "to ensure the pro-business climate continues. Midland has a reputation of being a conservative pro-business community."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_581aa538-3a4c-5657-893f-5e18bc08a4a6.html|title=Kathleen Thurber, "Gov. Perry raises more than White in Midland, statewide," October 5, 2010|publisher=''Midland Reporter-Telegram|accessdate=March 20, 2011}}</ref><br />
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Angelo is still active as an oilman in Midland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manta.com/c/mm2fpgn/ernest-angelo-office|title=Ernest Angelo office|publisher=manta.com|accessdate=March 10, 2011}}</ref> He and his wife reside in the same house on Stanolind Avenue that they bought c. 1970. The Minnesota native who was reared in Louisiana is an adopted West Texan describes Midland as "a very open community ... where people can excel in any endeavor." He attributes the political climate in Midland and West Texas to the oil and [[natural gas]] industries: "These are people with a can-do entrepreneurial independence who suiespport a conservative philosophy of government."<ref name="hathorn"/><br />
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In 2012, Angelo was a leading supporter of [[Christi Craddick]], his neighbor Tom Craddick's daughter, who won election to the Texas Railroad Commission and reelection in 2018.<br />
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|name=James Braswell "Jim" Henderson<br />
|image=James Henderson of LA.jpg<br />
|birth_date=January 28, 1970<br />
|birth_place=[[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]<br/><br />
Resident of [[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana, relocating to Ruston<br />
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'''Children''':<br><br />
Reagan, Nicholas, and Alexander Henderson<br />
|party=No Party<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2296525|title=James Henderson, 70810, January 1970|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=February 19, 2018}}</ref><br />
| office=15th President of<br> [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]<br />
| term_start=January 1, 2024<br />
| term_end=December 2026<br />
| preceded=Les Guice<br />
| succeeded=Pending<br />
| office2=President of the<br> University of Louisiana System<br />
| term_start2=January 1, 2017<br />
| term_end2=December 31, 2023<br />
| preceded2=Daniel Dugan Reneau, Jr. (interim for Sandra Woodley)<br />
| succeeded2=[[Rick Gallot]]<br />
| office3=18th President of [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana]]<br />
| termstart3=January 1, 2015<br />
| term_end3=December 31, 2016<br />
| preceded3=[[Randall Webb]]<br />
| succeeded3=[[Chris Maggio|Joseph Christopher "Chris" Maggio]]<br />
| office4=President of Bossier Parish<br> Community College in [[Bossier City]]<br />
| term_start4=2009<br />
| term_end4=December 31, 2014<br />
| succeeded4=Rick Bateman, Jr.<br />
|alma_mater=Northwestern State University<br><br />
University of West Florida<br><br />
[[University of Maryland]]<br />
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'''James Braswell Henderson''', known as '''Jim Henderson''' (born January 28, 1970),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/james-henderson/e366162223392|title=James B. Henderson|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> in a [[Louisiana]] educator who was named the president of [[Louisiana Tech University]] in October 2023. He assumed the position on January 1, 2024. Previously, he was from January 1, 2017, the 18th president of the [[Baton Rouge]]-based University of Louisiana System, which governs nine institutions of higher learning across [[Louisiana]] and is one of the twenty largest educational consortiums in the [[United States]]. He is also a former president of his alma mater, [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/10/26/jim-henderson-named-president-louisiana-tech-unanimous-vote/|publisher=KSLA-TV|title=Jim Henderson named president of Louisiana Tech University in unanimous vote|date=October 25, 2023|accessdate=October 28, 2023}}</ref><br />
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Citing health reasons, Henderson has announced his retirement as the Tech president at the end of 2026. Cade Brumley, the appointed Louisiana state school superintendent is reportedly being considered to succeed Henderson. Brumley is a [[conservative]] with ties to [[Governor]] [[Jeff Landry]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2026/10/05/who-will-be-next-president-of-louisiana-tech-university/92103292007/|title=Who will hire Louisiana Tech University's next president? Panel formed|publisher=''Monroe News Star''|date=October 5, 2026|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]}}</ref><br />
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==Background==<br />
A [[Shreveport]] native and the son of a [[football]] coach at the former Fair Park High School, Henderson graduated in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in [[English]] and [[journalism]] from Northwestern State University, Louisiana, one of the UL System schools which he would later serve as the president for two years. He earned a master’s degree in administration from the University of West Florida at Pensacola, [[Florida]], and a [[Ph.D.]] in management from the University College of the [[University of Maryland]] at College Park, [[Maryland]]. His wife, the former Tonia Istre (born October 1, 1972), is also an NSU graduate and has been an executive in television advertising and sales. The couple has three children, Reagan, Nicholas and Alexander.<ref name=ulsystem/><br />
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Henderson is a nephew of [[Dwight Vines|Dwight D. Vines]], the president from 1976 to 1990 of the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/local-news/former-ulm-president-dwight-d-vines-passed-away/|title=Former ULM President Dwight D. Vines Passed Away|publisher=Myarklamiss|date=October 26, 2019|author=James Selby|accessdate=October 28, 2019}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Henderson succeeded the late [[Randall Webb]] as the NSU president. Under his leadership, NSU established new and realigned academic programs designed to serve students in finding available jobs in the workforce. His tenure was highlighted by upgraded campus facilities, expanded marketing initiatives, innovative recruitment programs, and increases in alumni engagement and fund-raising.<ref name=ulsystem/> <br />
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Prior to the NSU presidency, Henderson was the chancellor of Bossier Parish Community College in [[Bossier City]] located across the Red River from Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana. Under Henderson's six years at BPCC, enrollment grew by 86 percent. He succeeded the late [[Randall Webb]] as the NSU president. Prior to his BPCC position, he was from 2005 to 2009 the senior vice president for career and technical education for the Louisiana Community and Technical College System; enrollment in that system grew by 98 percent while Henderson was the senior vice president. From 2001 to 2005, Henderson was the director of Administration and Workforce Development for the Louisiana Department of Labor in Baton Rouge. Prior to 2001, he was employed in hotel management.<ref name=ulsystem/><br />
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After a national search, only Henderson's name was submitted for the UL System presidency, and the supervisors chose him in a unanimous vote.<ref name=lguidry/> He succeeded Daniel Dugan Reneau, Jr., a former president of [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], who had been the interim system presidentsince Sandra Woodley resigned in 2015. Reneau said that Henderson's "career has uniquely prepared him for this role. Higher education in Louisiana is facing some of its most challenging times, and I think the board made an excellent selection to best position the system to combat the challenges ahead.”<ref name=ulsystem>{{cite web|url=https://natchitochesparishjournal.com/2016/10/06/henderson-named-president-of-university-of-louisiana-system/|title=Henderson named president of University of Louisiana|publisher=''Natchitoches Parish Journal''|date=October 6, 2016|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref><br />
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During his time as the NSU president, Henderson worked to increase enrollment. Upon his appointment as UL System president, he expressed "a deep sense of humility and appreciation...even though I obviously have some mixed emotions about leaving a university that has been such an important part of my life.”<ref name=ulsystem/><br />
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Henderson described his educational philosophy as one that starts and ends with students," rather than the "policy environment" of higher education. He indicated that he will visit all nine campuses on a regular basis and will seeking ways to get students more involved in the universities. He proposed that a student advisory council be established on each campus to meet with board members. He promised to work to reduce the "spiraling increase in out-of-pocket costs on our students. We are making [college] unaffordable to a big population of the state."<ref name=lguidry>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/education/2016/10/06/henderson-named-ul-system-president/91618338/|title=Henderson named UL System president|author=Leigh Guidry|publisher=''[[Alexandria Town Talk]]''|date=October 6, 2016|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref><br />
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In April 2018, Henderson said in a KEEL [[radio]] interview that the popular Taylor Opportunity Scholarship Program could face funding cuts but added: "Nobody wants to cut TOPS. It's just figuring out how we're going to get to that place." Henderson said that the 2018 state budget deficit could range from $600 million to $900 million but noted "indications of growth in the Louisiana economy that could drive that number lower."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/dr-jim-henderson-colleges-and-universities-always-in-the-crosshairs-video/|title=Dr. Jim Henderson: Colleges and universities always in the crosshairs|publisher=KEEL Radio|location=[[Shreveport]]|author=Robert J. Wright and Erin McCarty|date=April 5, 2018}}</ref><br />
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In May 2018, Henderson called upon [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]] to [[veto]] a budget approved by the state House of Representatives. Under the plan, operating expenses for several state departments will be slashed, and the Taylor Opportunity Program Scholarships would cover only 70 percent of tution, instead of 100 percent since the inception of the program. The budget would provide money for nursing home residents and for safety-net hospitals. Henderson said that he believes this particular budget will be devastating to higher education.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/dr-henderson-to-governor-dont-sign-this-budget/|title=Dr. Henderson to Governor: 'Don't sign this budget'|publisher=KEEL Radio|accessdate=May 18, 2018}}</ref> Edwards a few hours later did veto the budget.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2018/05/18/gov-edwards-vetoes-budget-bill/622528002/|title=Governor Edwards vetoes budget bill|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|date=May 18, 2018|accessdate=May 19, 2018}}</ref> A few weeks later, Edwards, with the acquiescence of Republican then House Speaker [[Taylor Barras]] of New Iberia, obtained the retention of .45 percent of the temporary one-cent sales tax and announced a budget that restored full TOPS funding and no cuts in higher education, measures which Henderson hailed as "a beautiful day for Louisiana families."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/dr-jim-henderson-on-100-tops-funding-beautiful-day-for-louisiana-families-video/|title=Jim Henderson On New Sales Tax, TOPS Funding (video)|publisher=KEEL Radio|date=June 25, 2018|author=Robert J. Wright|accessdate=June 26, 2018}}</ref><br />
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name=James Braswell "Jim" Henderson<br />
|image=James Henderson of LA.jpg<br />
|birth_date=January 28, 1970<br />
|birth_place=[[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]<br/><br />
Resident of [[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana, relocating to Ruston<br />
|death_date=<br />
|death_place=<br />
|resting_place=<br />
|religion=<br />
|spouse=Tonia Istre Henderson<br><br />
'''Children''':<br><br />
Reagan, Nicholas, and Alexander Henderson<br />
|party=No Party<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2296525|title=James Henderson, 70810, January 1970|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=February 19, 2018}}</ref><br />
| office=15th President of<br> [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]<br />
| term_start=January 1, 2024<br />
| term_end=December 2026<br />
| preceded=Les Guice<br />
| office2=President of the<br> University of Louisiana System<br />
| term_start2=January 1, 2017<br />
| term_end2=December 31, 2023<br />
| preceded2=Daniel Dugan Reneau, Jr. (interim for Sandra Woodley)<br />
| succeeded2=[[Rick Gallot]]<br />
| office3=18th President of [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana]]<br />
| termstart3=January 1, 2015<br />
| term_end3=December 31, 2016<br />
| preceded3=[[Randall Webb]]<br />
| succeeded3=[[Chris Maggio|Joseph Christopher "Chris" Maggio]]<br />
| office4=President of Bossier Parish<br> Community College in [[Bossier City]]<br />
| term_start4=2009<br />
| term_end4=December 31, 2014<br />
| succeeded4=Rick Bateman, Jr.<br />
|alma_mater=Northwestern State University<br><br />
University of West Florida<br><br />
[[University of Maryland]]<br />
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'''James Braswell Henderson''', known as '''Jim Henderson''' (born January 28, 1970),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/james-henderson/e366162223392|title=James B. Henderson|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> in a [[Louisiana]] educator who was named the president of [[Louisiana Tech University]] in October 2023. He assumed the position on January 1, 2024. Previously, he was from January 1, 2017, the 18th president of the [[Baton Rouge]]-based University of Louisiana System, which governs nine institutions of higher learning across [[Louisiana]] and is one of the twenty largest educational consortiums in the [[United States]]. He is also a former president of his alma mater, [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/10/26/jim-henderson-named-president-louisiana-tech-unanimous-vote/|publisher=KSLA-TV|title=Jim Henderson named president of Louisiana Tech University in unanimous vote|date=October 25, 2023|accessdate=October 28, 2023}}</ref><br />
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Citing health reasons, Henderson has announced his retirement as the Tech president at the end of 2026. Cade Brumley, the appointed Louisiana state school superintendent is reportedly being considered to succeed Henderson. Brumley is a [[conservative]] with ties to [[Governor]] [[Jeff Landry]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2026/10/05/who-will-be-next-president-of-louisiana-tech-university/92103292007/|title=Who will hire Louisiana Tech University's next president? Panel formed|publisher=''Monroe News Star''|date=October 5, 2026|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]}}</ref><br />
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==Background==<br />
A [[Shreveport]] native and the son of a [[football]] coach at the former Fair Park High School, Henderson graduated in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in [[English]] and [[journalism]] from Northwestern State University, Louisiana, one of the UL System schools which he would later serve as the president for two years. He earned a master’s degree in administration from the University of West Florida at Pensacola, [[Florida]], and a [[Ph.D.]] in management from the University College of the [[University of Maryland]] at College Park, [[Maryland]]. His wife, the former Tonia Istre (born October 1, 1972), is also an NSU graduate and has been an executive in television advertising and sales. The couple has three children, Reagan, Nicholas and Alexander.<ref name=ulsystem/><br />
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Henderson is a nephew of [[Dwight Vines|Dwight D. Vines]], the president from 1976 to 1990 of the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/local-news/former-ulm-president-dwight-d-vines-passed-away/|title=Former ULM President Dwight D. Vines Passed Away|publisher=Myarklamiss|date=October 26, 2019|author=James Selby|accessdate=October 28, 2019}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Henderson succeeded the late [[Randall Webb]] as the NSU president. Under his leadership, NSU established new and realigned academic programs designed to serve students in finding available jobs in the workforce. His tenure was highlighted by upgraded campus facilities, expanded marketing initiatives, innovative recruitment programs, and increases in alumni engagement and fund-raising.<ref name=ulsystem/> <br />
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Prior to the NSU presidency, Henderson was the chancellor of Bossier Parish Community College in [[Bossier City]] located across the Red River from Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana. Under Henderson's six years at BPCC, enrollment grew by 86 percent. He succeeded the late [[Randall Webb]] as the NSU president. Prior to his BPCC position, he was from 2005 to 2009 the senior vice president for career and technical education for the Louisiana Community and Technical College System; enrollment in that system grew by 98 percent while Henderson was the senior vice president. From 2001 to 2005, Henderson was the director of Administration and Workforce Development for the Louisiana Department of Labor in Baton Rouge. Prior to 2001, he was employed in hotel management.<ref name=ulsystem/><br />
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After a national search, only Henderson's name was submitted for the UL System presidency, and the supervisors chose him in a unanimous vote.<ref name=lguidry/> He succeeded Daniel Dugan Reneau, Jr., a former president of [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], who had been the interim system presidentsince Sandra Woodley resigned in 2015. Reneau said that Henderson's "career has uniquely prepared him for this role. Higher education in Louisiana is facing some of its most challenging times, and I think the board made an excellent selection to best position the system to combat the challenges ahead.”<ref name=ulsystem>{{cite web|url=https://natchitochesparishjournal.com/2016/10/06/henderson-named-president-of-university-of-louisiana-system/|title=Henderson named president of University of Louisiana|publisher=''Natchitoches Parish Journal''|date=October 6, 2016|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref><br />
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During his time as the NSU president, Henderson worked to increase enrollment. Upon his appointment as UL System president, he expressed "a deep sense of humility and appreciation...even though I obviously have some mixed emotions about leaving a university that has been such an important part of my life.”<ref name=ulsystem/><br />
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Henderson described his educational philosophy as one that starts and ends with students," rather than the "policy environment" of higher education. He indicated that he will visit all nine campuses on a regular basis and will seeking ways to get students more involved in the universities. He proposed that a student advisory council be established on each campus to meet with board members. He promised to work to reduce the "spiraling increase in out-of-pocket costs on our students. We are making [college] unaffordable to a big population of the state."<ref name=lguidry>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/education/2016/10/06/henderson-named-ul-system-president/91618338/|title=Henderson named UL System president|author=Leigh Guidry|publisher=''[[Alexandria Town Talk]]''|date=October 6, 2016|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref><br />
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In April 2018, Henderson said in a KEEL [[radio]] interview that the popular Taylor Opportunity Scholarship Program could face funding cuts but added: "Nobody wants to cut TOPS. It's just figuring out how we're going to get to that place." Henderson said that the 2018 state budget deficit could range from $600 million to $900 million but noted "indications of growth in the Louisiana economy that could drive that number lower."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/dr-jim-henderson-colleges-and-universities-always-in-the-crosshairs-video/|title=Dr. Jim Henderson: Colleges and universities always in the crosshairs|publisher=KEEL Radio|location=[[Shreveport]]|author=Robert J. Wright and Erin McCarty|date=April 5, 2018}}</ref><br />
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In May 2018, Henderson called upon [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]] to [[veto]] a budget approved by the state House of Representatives. Under the plan, operating expenses for several state departments will be slashed, and the Taylor Opportunity Program Scholarships would cover only 70 percent of tution, instead of 100 percent since the inception of the program. The budget would provide money for nursing home residents and for safety-net hospitals. Henderson said that he believes this particular budget will be devastating to higher education.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/dr-henderson-to-governor-dont-sign-this-budget/|title=Dr. Henderson to Governor: 'Don't sign this budget'|publisher=KEEL Radio|accessdate=May 18, 2018}}</ref> Edwards a few hours later did veto the budget.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2018/05/18/gov-edwards-vetoes-budget-bill/622528002/|title=Governor Edwards vetoes budget bill|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|date=May 18, 2018|accessdate=May 19, 2018}}</ref> A few weeks later, Edwards, with the acquiescence of Republican then House Speaker [[Taylor Barras]] of New Iberia, obtained the retention of .45 percent of the temporary one-cent sales tax and announced a budget that restored full TOPS funding and no cuts in higher education, measures which Henderson hailed as "a beautiful day for Louisiana families."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/dr-jim-henderson-on-100-tops-funding-beautiful-day-for-louisiana-families-video/|title=Jim Henderson On New Sales Tax, TOPS Funding (video)|publisher=KEEL Radio|date=June 25, 2018|author=Robert J. Wright|accessdate=June 26, 2018}}</ref><br />
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name=James Braswell "Jim" Henderson<br />
|image=James Henderson of LA.jpg<br />
|birth_date=January 28, 1970<br />
|birth_place=[[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]<br/><br />
Resident of [[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana, relocating to Ruston<br />
|death_date=<br />
|death_place=<br />
|resting_place=<br />
|religion=<br />
|spouse=Tonia Istre Henderson<br><br />
'''Children''':<br><br />
Reagan, Nicholas, and Alexander Henderson<br />
|party=No Party<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2296525|title=James Henderson, 70810, January 1970|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=February 19, 2018}}</ref><br />
| office=15th President of<br> [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]<br />
| term_start=January 1, 2024<br />
| term_end=December 2026<br />
| preceded=Les Guice<br />
| office2=President of the<br> University of Louisiana System<br />
| term_start2=January 1, 2017<br />
| term_end2=December 31, 2023<br />
| preceded2=Daniel Dugan Reneau, Jr. (interim for Sandra Woodley)<br />
| succeeded2=[[Rick Gallot]]<br />
| office3=18th President of [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana]]<br />
| termstart3=January 1, 2015<br />
| term_end3=December 31, 2016<br />
| preceded3=[[Randall Webb]]<br />
| succeeded3=[[Chris Maggio|Joseph Christopher "Chris" Maggio]]<br />
| office4=President of Bossier Parish<br> Community College in [[Bossier City]]<br />
| term_start4=2009<br />
| term_end4=December 31, 2014<br />
| succeeded4=Rick Bateman, Jr.<br />
|alma_mater=Northwestern State University<br><br />
University of West Florida<br><br />
[[University of Maryland]]<br />
<br />
}}<br />
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'''James Braswell Henderson''', known as '''Jim Henderson''' (born January 28, 1970),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/james-henderson/e366162223392|title=James B. Henderson|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> in a [[Louisiana]] educator who was named the president of [[Louisiana Tech University]] in October 2023. He assumed the position on January 1, 2024. Previously, he was from January 1, 2017, the 18th president of the [[Baton Rouge]]-based University of Louisiana System, which governs nine institutions of higher learning across [[Louisiana]] and is one of the twenty largest educational consortiums in the [[United States]]. He is also a former president of his alma mater, [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/10/26/jim-henderson-named-president-louisiana-tech-unanimous-vote/|publisher=KSLA-TV|title=Jim Henderson named president of Louisiana Tech University in unanimous vote|date=October 25, 2023|accessdate=October 28, 2023}}</ref><br />
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Citing health reasons, Henderson is retiring as the Tech president at the end of 2026.<br />
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==Background==<br />
A [[Shreveport]] native and the son of a [[football]] coach at the former Fair Park High School, Henderson graduated in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in [[English]] and [[journalism]] from Northwestern State University, Louisiana, one of the UL System schools which he would later serve as the president for two years. He earned a master’s degree in administration from the University of West Florida at Pensacola, [[Florida]], and a [[Ph.D.]] in management from the University College of the [[University of Maryland]] at College Park, [[Maryland]]. His wife, the former Tonia Istre (born October 1, 1972), is also an NSU graduate and has been an executive in television advertising and sales. The couple has three children, Reagan, Nicholas and Alexander.<ref name=ulsystem/><br />
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Henderson is a nephew of [[Dwight Vines|Dwight D. Vines]], the president from 1976 to 1990 of the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/local-news/former-ulm-president-dwight-d-vines-passed-away/|title=Former ULM President Dwight D. Vines Passed Away|publisher=Myarklamiss|date=October 26, 2019|author=James Selby|accessdate=October 28, 2019}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Henderson succeeded the late [[Randall Webb]] as the NSU president. Under his leadership, NSU established new and realigned academic programs designed to serve students in finding available jobs in the workforce. His tenure was highlighted by upgraded campus facilities, expanded marketing initiatives, innovative recruitment programs, and increases in alumni engagement and fund-raising.<ref name=ulsystem/> <br />
<br />
Prior to the NSU presidency, Henderson was the chancellor of Bossier Parish Community College in [[Bossier City]] located across the Red River from Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana. Under Henderson's six years at BPCC, enrollment grew by 86 percent. He succeeded the late [[Randall Webb]] as the NSU president. Prior to his BPCC position, he was from 2005 to 2009 the senior vice president for career and technical education for the Louisiana Community and Technical College System; enrollment in that system grew by 98 percent while Henderson was the senior vice president. From 2001 to 2005, Henderson was the director of Administration and Workforce Development for the Louisiana Department of Labor in Baton Rouge. Prior to 2001, he was employed in hotel management.<ref name=ulsystem/><br />
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After a national search, only Henderson's name was submitted for the UL System presidency, and the supervisors chose him in a unanimous vote.<ref name=lguidry/> He succeeded Daniel Dugan Reneau, Jr., a former president of [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], who had been the interim system presidentsince Sandra Woodley resigned in 2015. Reneau said that Henderson's "career has uniquely prepared him for this role. Higher education in Louisiana is facing some of its most challenging times, and I think the board made an excellent selection to best position the system to combat the challenges ahead.”<ref name=ulsystem>{{cite web|url=https://natchitochesparishjournal.com/2016/10/06/henderson-named-president-of-university-of-louisiana-system/|title=Henderson named president of University of Louisiana|publisher=''Natchitoches Parish Journal''|date=October 6, 2016|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref><br />
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During his time as the NSU president, Henderson worked to increase enrollment. Upon his appointment as UL System president, he expressed "a deep sense of humility and appreciation...even though I obviously have some mixed emotions about leaving a university that has been such an important part of my life.”<ref name=ulsystem/><br />
<br />
Henderson described his educational philosophy as one that starts and ends with students," rather than the "policy environment" of higher education. He indicated that he will visit all nine campuses on a regular basis and will seeking ways to get students more involved in the universities. He proposed that a student advisory council be established on each campus to meet with board members. He promised to work to reduce the "spiraling increase in out-of-pocket costs on our students. We are making [college] unaffordable to a big population of the state."<ref name=lguidry>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/education/2016/10/06/henderson-named-ul-system-president/91618338/|title=Henderson named UL System president|author=Leigh Guidry|publisher=''[[Alexandria Town Talk]]''|date=October 6, 2016|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref><br />
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In April 2018, Henderson said in a KEEL [[radio]] interview that the popular Taylor Opportunity Scholarship Program could face funding cuts but added: "Nobody wants to cut TOPS. It's just figuring out how we're going to get to that place." Henderson said that the 2018 state budget deficit could range from $600 million to $900 million but noted "indications of growth in the Louisiana economy that could drive that number lower."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/dr-jim-henderson-colleges-and-universities-always-in-the-crosshairs-video/|title=Dr. Jim Henderson: Colleges and universities always in the crosshairs|publisher=KEEL Radio|location=[[Shreveport]]|author=Robert J. Wright and Erin McCarty|date=April 5, 2018}}</ref><br />
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In May 2018, Henderson called upon [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]] to [[veto]] a budget approved by the state House of Representatives. Under the plan, operating expenses for several state departments will be slashed, and the Taylor Opportunity Program Scholarships would cover only 70 percent of tution, instead of 100 percent since the inception of the program. The budget would provide money for nursing home residents and for safety-net hospitals. Henderson said that he believes this particular budget will be devastating to higher education.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/dr-henderson-to-governor-dont-sign-this-budget/|title=Dr. Henderson to Governor: 'Don't sign this budget'|publisher=KEEL Radio|accessdate=May 18, 2018}}</ref> Edwards a few hours later did veto the budget.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2018/05/18/gov-edwards-vetoes-budget-bill/622528002/|title=Governor Edwards vetoes budget bill|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|date=May 18, 2018|accessdate=May 19, 2018}}</ref> A few weeks later, Edwards, with the acquiescence of Republican then House Speaker [[Taylor Barras]] of New Iberia, obtained the retention of .45 percent of the temporary one-cent sales tax and announced a budget that restored full TOPS funding and no cuts in higher education, measures which Henderson hailed as "a beautiful day for Louisiana families."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/dr-jim-henderson-on-100-tops-funding-beautiful-day-for-louisiana-families-video/|title=Jim Henderson On New Sales Tax, TOPS Funding (video)|publisher=KEEL Radio|date=June 25, 2018|author=Robert J. Wright|accessdate=June 26, 2018}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Educators]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=File:Clyde_Kimball_of_LA.jpg&diff=2207197File:Clyde Kimball of LA.jpg2026-10-05T10:34:33Z<p>BHathorn2: Kimball obit photo in ''Baton Rouge Advocate''
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Kimball obit photo in ''Baton Rouge Advocate''<br />
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]<br />
[[Category:State Representatives]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Clyde_Kimball&diff=2207196Clyde Kimball2026-10-05T10:33:25Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder <br />
| name=Clyde Walker Kimball<br />
| image=Clyde Kimball of LA.jpg<br />
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for District 29 (then Pointe Coupee<br> and West Baton Rouge parishes)<br />
| term_start=1976<br />
| term_end=1992<br />
| preceded=Roy Robillard<br><br />
[[Robert Freeman]]<br />
| succeeded=Buster Guzzardo, Sr.<br><br />
Michael W. Russo<br><br />
Sharon Weston Broome<br />
| birth date=July 11, 1942<br />
| birth_place=New Roads<br> Pointe Coupee Parish<br />
| death_date=October 2, 2026 (aged 84)<br />
| resting_place=Body donated to medical science<br />
| residence=Ventress<br><br />
Pointe Coupee Parish<br />
| occupation=Jewelry salesman<br><br />
Parole & probation officer<br><br />
Oil company employee<br><br />
Founding member of People's Bank of Pointe Coupee Parish<ref name=obit/> <br />
| spouse=Catherine D. "Kitty" Kimball<br />
| children=Kevin Hudson Kimball<br><br />
Catherine Kimball Leggio<br><br />
Lyria Kimball O'Brien<br><br />
Seven grandchildren<br><br />
One great-grandson<br><br />
'''Parents''':<br><br />
Albert Eugene "AE" and Edna Erle Walker Kimball <br />
| relations=Judge Dan Kimball (uncle)<br />
| alma_mater =Poydras High School<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]]<br />
| religion =[[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]<br />
| party = [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] / later No Party voter<br />
}}<br />
'''Clyde Walker Kimball''' (July 11, 1942 &ndash; October 2, 2026)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://obituaries.theadvocate.com/obituary/clyde-kimball-1094074656|title=Clyde Walker Kimball obituary|publisher=''Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 3, 2026}}</ref> was a former [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for District 29, which included his own Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes, [[Louisiana]]. He served in the House from 1976 to 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 30, 2020}}</ref> As of May 2015, Kimball was registered as a "No Party" voter by the office of then Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2064815|title=Type in Clyde Kimball, July 1942|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 25, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Kimball obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=whoswho/> He won his third term in the House in 1983 with 77 percent of the vote over fellow Democrat Emmet Spooner<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983.</ref> and his fourth and final term in 1987, with 71 percent over another Democrat, Thomas L. "Tommy" Zito.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> In 1992, Kimball did not seek a fifth term in the House. The [[African-American]] Democrat Sharon Weston Broome, since the Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, won the District 29 seat in a revised districting..<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref> <br />
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After his sixteen years in the state House, Kimball joined the fourth administration of [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]] as the assistant director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.<ref name=whoswho/> He was retained in the position by Edwards' s final successor as governor, [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Mike Foster]].<ref name=obit/> In 1999, as Foster won reelection as governor, Kimball ran unsuccessfully for the District 17 seat in the state Senate. He placed third in the nonpartisan blanket primary. Victory went to his fellow Democrat Rob Marionneaux.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 23, 1999.</ref><br />
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Kimball's wife, Catherine D. Kimball, a native of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana, is the retired chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. When he ceased to run for the House in 1992, Kimball instead worked in his wife's campaign for the Supreme Court; their persistence paid off, as she carried all twelve parishes her district ranging from St. Landry to East Baton Rouge parishes.<ref name=barassn>{{cite web|url=http://files.lsba.org/documents/publications/BarJournal/Journal-Feature8-Dec12Jan13.pdf|title="We Call Her "Kitty Ann"|author=John James Jewell|publisher=''Louisiana State Bar Journal''|date=December 2012|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> The couple resided in Ventress in Pointe Coupee Parish. Their children are Kevin Hudson Kimball wife (Trish), Catherine Kimball Leggio (husband Dr. Chris), and Lyria Kimball O'Brien (husband Shawn). They formerly lived in the parish seat of New Roads. The family is [[Roman Catholic]].<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Clyde W. Kimball," ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007-2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2007), p. 663.</ref><br />
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Kimball was a nephew of Dan Kimball, a long-time judge of the Louisiana 18th Judicial District court for Iberville, West Baton Rouge, and Pointe Coupee parishes. When Dan Kimball died in 1982, Catherine Kimball was elected to succeed him and held that seat for a decade before she joined the state Supreme Court.<ref name=barassn/> <br />
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[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Clyde_Kimball&diff=2207097Clyde Kimball2026-10-05T01:54:44Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder <br />
| name=Clyde Walker Kimball<br />
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for District 29 (then Pointe Coupee<br> and West Baton Rouge parishes)<br />
| term_start=1976<br />
| term_end=1992<br />
| preceded=Roy Robillard<br><br />
[[Robert Freeman]]<br />
| succeeded=Buster Guzzardo, Sr.<br><br />
Michael W. Russo<br><br />
Sharon Weston Broome<br />
| birth date=July 11, 1942<br />
| birth_place=New Roads<br> Pointe Coupee Parish<br />
| death_date=October 2, 2026 (aged 84)<br />
| resting_place=Body donated to medical science<br />
| residence=Ventress<br><br />
Pointe Coupee Parish<br />
| occupation=Jewelry salesman<br><br />
Parole & probation officer<br><br />
Oil company employee<br><br />
Founding member of People's Bank of Pointe Coupee Parish<ref name=obit/> <br />
| spouse=Catherine D. "Kitty" Kimball<br />
| children=Kevin Hudson Kimball<br><br />
Catherine Kimball Leggio<br><br />
Lyria Kimball O'Brien<br><br />
Seven grandchildren<br><br />
One great-grandson<br><br />
'''Parents''':<br><br />
Albert Eugene "AE" and Edna Erle Walker Kimball <br />
| relations=Judge Dan Kimball (uncle)<br />
| alma_mater =Poydras High School<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]]<br />
| religion =[[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]<br />
| party = [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] / later No Party voter<br />
}}<br />
'''Clyde Walker Kimball''' (July 11, 1942 &ndash; October 2, 2026)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://obituaries.theadvocate.com/obituary/clyde-kimball-1094074656|title=Clyde Walker Kimball obituary|publisher=''Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 3, 2026}}</ref> was a former [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for District 29, which included his own Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes, [[Louisiana]]. He served in the House from 1976 to 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 30, 2020}}</ref> As of May 2015, Kimball was registered as a "No Party" voter by the office of then Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2064815|title=Type in Clyde Kimball, July 1942|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 25, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Kimball obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=whoswho/> He won his third term in the House in 1983 with 77 percent of the vote over fellow Democrat Emmet Spooner<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983.</ref> and his fourth and final term in 1987, with 71 percent over another Democrat, Thomas L. "Tommy" Zito.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> In 1992, Kimball did not seek a fifth term in the House. The [[African-American]] Democrat Sharon Weston Broome, since the Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, won the District 29 seat in a revised districting..<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref> <br />
<br />
After his sixteen years in the state House, Kimball joined the fourth administration of [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]] as the assistant director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.<ref name=whoswho/> He was retained in the position by Edwards' s final successor as governor, [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Mike Foster]].<ref name=obit/> In 1999, as Foster won reelection as governor, Kimball ran unsuccessfully for the District 17 seat in the state Senate. He placed third in the nonpartisan blanket primary. Victory went to his fellow Democrat Rob Marionneaux.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 23, 1999.</ref><br />
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Kimball's wife, Catherine D. Kimball, a native of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana, is the retired chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. When he ceased to run for the House in 1992, Kimball instead worked in his wife's campaign for the Supreme Court; their persistence paid off, as she carried all twelve parishes her district ranging from St. Landry to East Baton Rouge parishes.<ref name=barassn>{{cite web|url=http://files.lsba.org/documents/publications/BarJournal/Journal-Feature8-Dec12Jan13.pdf|title="We Call Her "Kitty Ann"|author=John James Jewell|publisher=''Louisiana State Bar Journal''|date=December 2012|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> The couple resided in Ventress in Pointe Coupee Parish. Their children are Kevin Hudson Kimball wife (Trish), Catherine Kimball Leggio (husband Dr. Chris), and Lyria Kimball O'Brien (husband Shawn). They formerly lived in the parish seat of New Roads. The family is [[Roman Catholic]].<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Clyde W. Kimball," ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007-2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2007), p. 663.</ref><br />
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Kimball was a nephew of Dan Kimball, a long-time judge of the Louisiana 18th Judicial District court for Iberville, West Baton Rouge, and Pointe Coupee parishes. When Dan Kimball died in 1982, Catherine Kimball was elected to succeed him and held that seat for a decade before she joined the state Supreme Court.<ref name=barassn/> <br />
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==References==<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kimball, Clyde}}<br />
[[Category:Louisiana People]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
[[Category:State Representatives]]<br />
[[Category:Former Democrats]]<br />
[[Category:Independents]]<br />
[[Category:Catholics]]<br />
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Clyde_Kimball&diff=2207096Clyde Kimball2026-10-05T01:54:01Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder <br />
| name=Clyde Walker Kimball<br />
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for District 29 (then Pointe Coupee<br> and West Baton Rouge parishes)<br />
| term_start=1976<br />
| term_end=1992<br />
| preceded=Roy Robillard<br><br />
[[Robert Freeman]]<br />
| succeeded=Buster Guzzardo, Sr.<br><br />
Michael W. Russo<br><br />
Sharon Weston Broome<br />
| birth date=July 11, 1942<br />
| birth_place=New Roads, Pointe Coupee Parish<br />
| death_date=October 2, 2026 (aged 84)<br />
| resting_place=Body donated to medical science<br />
| residence=Ventress,<br><br />
Pointe Coupee Parish, [[Louisiana]], USA<br />
| occupation=Jewelry salesman<br><br />
Parole & probation officer<br><br />
Oil company employee<br><br />
Founding member of People's Bank of Pointe Coupee Parish<ref name=obit/> <br />
| spouse=Catherine D. "Kitty" Kimball<br />
| children=Kevin Hudson Kimball<br><br />
Catherine Kimball Leggio<br><br />
Lyria Kimball O'Brien<br><br />
Seven grandchildren<br><br />
One great-grandson<br><br />
'''Parents''':<br><br />
Albert Eugene "AE" and Edna Erle Walker Kimball <br />
| relations=Judge Dan Kimball (uncle)<br />
| alma_mater =Poydras High School<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]]<br />
| religion =[[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]<br />
| party = [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] / later No Party voter<br />
}}<br />
'''Clyde Walker Kimball''' (July 11, 1942 &ndash; October 2, 2026)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://obituaries.theadvocate.com/obituary/clyde-kimball-1094074656|title=Clyde Walker Kimball obituary|publisher=''Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 3, 2026}}</ref> was a former [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for District 29, which included his own Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes, [[Louisiana]]. He served in the House from 1976 to 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 30, 2020}}</ref> As of May 2015, Kimball was registered as a "No Party" voter by the office of then Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2064815|title=Type in Clyde Kimball, July 1942|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 25, 2015}}</ref><br />
<br />
Kimball obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=whoswho/> He won his third term in the House in 1983 with 77 percent of the vote over fellow Democrat Emmet Spooner<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983.</ref> and his fourth and final term in 1987, with 71 percent over another Democrat, Thomas L. "Tommy" Zito.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> In 1992, Kimball did not seek a fifth term in the House. The [[African-American]] Democrat Sharon Weston Broome, since the Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, won the District 29 seat in a revised districting..<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref> <br />
<br />
After his sixteen years in the state House, Kimball joined the fourth administration of [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]] as the assistant director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.<ref name=whoswho/> He was retained in the position by Edwards' s final successor as governor, [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Mike Foster]].<ref name=obit/> In 1999, as Foster won reelection as governor, Kimball ran unsuccessfully for the District 17 seat in the state Senate. He placed third in the nonpartisan blanket primary. Victory went to his fellow Democrat Rob Marionneaux.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 23, 1999.</ref><br />
<br />
Kimball's wife, Catherine D. Kimball, a native of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana, is the retired chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. When he ceased to run for the House in 1992, Kimball instead worked in his wife's campaign for the Supreme Court; their persistence paid off, as she carried all twelve parishes her district ranging from St. Landry to East Baton Rouge parishes.<ref name=barassn>{{cite web|url=http://files.lsba.org/documents/publications/BarJournal/Journal-Feature8-Dec12Jan13.pdf|title="We Call Her "Kitty Ann"|author=John James Jewell|publisher=''Louisiana State Bar Journal''|date=December 2012|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> The couple resided in Ventress in Pointe Coupee Parish. Their children are Kevin Hudson Kimball wife (Trish), Catherine Kimball Leggio (husband Dr. Chris), and Lyria Kimball O'Brien (husband Shawn). They formerly lived in the parish seat of New Roads. The family is [[Roman Catholic]].<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Clyde W. Kimball," ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007-2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2007), p. 663.</ref><br />
<br />
Kimball was a nephew of Dan Kimball, a long-time judge of the Louisiana 18th Judicial District court for Iberville, West Baton Rouge, and Pointe Coupee parishes. When Dan Kimball died in 1982, Catherine Kimball was elected to succeed him and held that seat for a decade before she joined the state Supreme Court.<ref name=barassn/> <br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kimball, Clyde}}<br />
[[Category:Louisiana People]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
[[Category:State Representatives]]<br />
[[Category:Former Democrats]]<br />
[[Category:Independents]]<br />
[[Category:Catholics]]<br />
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Clyde_Kimball&diff=2207095Clyde Kimball2026-10-05T01:53:40Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder <br />
| name=Clyde Walker Kimball<br />
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for District 29 (then Pointe Coupee<br> and West Baton Rouge parishes)]]<br />
| term_start=1976<br />
| term_end=1992<br />
| preceded=Roy Robillard<br><br />
[[Robert Freeman]]<br />
| succeeded=Buster Guzzardo, Sr.<br><br />
Michael W. Russo<br><br />
Sharon Weston Broome<br />
| birth date=July 11, 1942<br />
| birth_place=New Roads, Pointe Coupee Parish<br />
| death_date=October 2, 2026 (aged 84)<br />
| resting_place=Body donated to medical science<br />
| residence=Ventress,<br><br />
Pointe Coupee Parish, [[Louisiana]], USA<br />
| occupation=Jewelry salesman<br><br />
Parole & probation officer<br><br />
Oil company employee<br><br />
Founding member of People's Bank of Pointe Coupee Parish<ref name=obit/> <br />
| spouse=Catherine D. "Kitty" Kimball<br />
| children=Kevin Hudson Kimball<br><br />
Catherine Kimball Leggio<br><br />
Lyria Kimball O'Brien<br><br />
Seven grandchildren<br><br />
One great-grandson<br><br />
'''Parents''':<br><br />
Albert Eugene "AE" and Edna Erle Walker Kimball <br />
| relations=Judge Dan Kimball (uncle)<br />
| alma_mater =Poydras High School<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]]<br />
| religion =[[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]<br />
| party = [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] / later No Party voter<br />
}}<br />
'''Clyde Walker Kimball''' (July 11, 1942 &ndash; October 2, 2026)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://obituaries.theadvocate.com/obituary/clyde-kimball-1094074656|title=Clyde Walker Kimball obituary|publisher=''Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 3, 2026}}</ref> was a former [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for District 29, which included his own Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes, [[Louisiana]]. He served in the House from 1976 to 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 30, 2020}}</ref> As of May 2015, Kimball was registered as a "No Party" voter by the office of then Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2064815|title=Type in Clyde Kimball, July 1942|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 25, 2015}}</ref><br />
<br />
Kimball obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=whoswho/> He won his third term in the House in 1983 with 77 percent of the vote over fellow Democrat Emmet Spooner<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983.</ref> and his fourth and final term in 1987, with 71 percent over another Democrat, Thomas L. "Tommy" Zito.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> In 1992, Kimball did not seek a fifth term in the House. The [[African-American]] Democrat Sharon Weston Broome, since the Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, won the District 29 seat in a revised districting..<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref> <br />
<br />
After his sixteen years in the state House, Kimball joined the fourth administration of [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]] as the assistant director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.<ref name=whoswho/> He was retained in the position by Edwards' s final successor as governor, [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Mike Foster]].<ref name=obit/> In 1999, as Foster won reelection as governor, Kimball ran unsuccessfully for the District 17 seat in the state Senate. He placed third in the nonpartisan blanket primary. Victory went to his fellow Democrat Rob Marionneaux.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 23, 1999.</ref><br />
<br />
Kimball's wife, Catherine D. Kimball, a native of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana, is the retired chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. When he ceased to run for the House in 1992, Kimball instead worked in his wife's campaign for the Supreme Court; their persistence paid off, as she carried all twelve parishes her district ranging from St. Landry to East Baton Rouge parishes.<ref name=barassn>{{cite web|url=http://files.lsba.org/documents/publications/BarJournal/Journal-Feature8-Dec12Jan13.pdf|title="We Call Her "Kitty Ann"|author=John James Jewell|publisher=''Louisiana State Bar Journal''|date=December 2012|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> The couple resided in Ventress in Pointe Coupee Parish. Their children are Kevin Hudson Kimball wife (Trish), Catherine Kimball Leggio (husband Dr. Chris), and Lyria Kimball O'Brien (husband Shawn). They formerly lived in the parish seat of New Roads. The family is [[Roman Catholic]].<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Clyde W. Kimball," ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007-2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2007), p. 663.</ref><br />
<br />
Kimball was a nephew of Dan Kimball, a long-time judge of the Louisiana 18th Judicial District court for Iberville, West Baton Rouge, and Pointe Coupee parishes. When Dan Kimball died in 1982, Catherine Kimball was elected to succeed him and held that seat for a decade before she joined the state Supreme Court.<ref name=barassn/> <br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kimball, Clyde}}<br />
[[Category:Louisiana People]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
[[Category:State Representatives]]<br />
[[Category:Former Democrats]]<br />
[[Category:Independents]]<br />
[[Category:Catholics]]<br />
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Clyde_Kimball&diff=2207094Clyde Kimball2026-10-05T01:52:11Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder <br />
| name=Clyde Walker Kimball<br />
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for District 29 (then Pointe Coupee<br> and West Baton Rouge parishes)]]<br />
| term_start=1976<br />
| term_end=1992<br />
| preceded=Roy Robillard<br><br />
[[Robert Freeman]]<br />
| succeeded=Buster Guzzardo, Sr.<br><br />
Michael W. Russo<br><br />
Sharon Weston Broome<br />
| birth date=July 11, 1942<br />
| birth_place=New Roads, Pointe Coupee Parish<br />
| death_date=October 2, 2026 (aged 84)<br />
| resting_place=Body donated to medical science<br />
| residence=[[Ventress, Louisiana|Ventress]]<br><br />
[[Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana|Pointe Coupee Parish]]<br><br />
[[Louisiana]], USA<br />
| occupation=Jewelry salesman<br><br />
Parole & probation officer<br><br />
Oil company employee<br><br />
Founding member of People's Bank of Pointe Coupee Parish<ref name=obit/> <br />
| spouse=Catherine D. "Kitty" Kimball<br />
| children=Kevin Hudson Kimball<br><br />
Catherine Kimball Leggio<br><br />
Lyria Kimball O'Brien<br><br />
Seven grandchildren<br><br />
One great-grandson<br />
'''Parents''':<br><br />
Albert Eugene "AE" and Edna Erle Walker Kimball <br />
| relations=Judge Dan Kimball (uncle)<br />
| alma_mater =Poydras High School<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]]<br />
| religion =[[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]<br />
| party = [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] / later No Party voter<br />
}}<br />
'''Clyde Walker Kimball''' (July 11, 1942 &ndash; October 2, 2026)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://obituaries.theadvocate.com/obituary/clyde-kimball-1094074656|title=Clyde Walker Kimball obituary|publisher=''Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 3, 2026}}</ref> was a former [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for District 29, which included his own Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes, [[Louisiana]]. He served in the House from 1976 to 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 30, 2020}}</ref> As of May 2015, Kimball was registered as a "No Party" voter by the office of then Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2064815|title=Type in Clyde Kimball, July 1942|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 25, 2015}}</ref><br />
<br />
Kimball obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=whoswho/> He won his third term in the House in 1983 with 77 percent of the vote over fellow Democrat Emmet Spooner<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983.</ref> and his fourth and final term in 1987, with 71 percent over another Democrat, Thomas L. "Tommy" Zito.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> In 1992, Kimball did not seek a fifth term in the House. The [[African-American]] Democrat Sharon Weston Broome, since the Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, won the District 29 seat in a revised districting..<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref> <br />
<br />
After his sixteen years in the state House, Kimball joined the fourth administration of [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]] as the assistant director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.<ref name=whoswho/> He was retained in the position by Edwards' s final successor as governor, [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Mike Foster]].<ref name=obit/> In 1999, as Foster won reelection as governor, Kimball ran unsuccessfully for the District 17 seat in the state Senate. He placed third in the nonpartisan blanket primary. Victory went to his fellow Democrat Rob Marionneaux.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 23, 1999.</ref><br />
<br />
Kimball's wife, Catherine D. Kimball, a native of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana, is the retired chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. When he ceased to run for the House in 1992, Kimball instead worked in his wife's campaign for the Supreme Court; their persistence paid off, as she carried all twelve parishes her district ranging from St. Landry to East Baton Rouge parishes.<ref name=barassn>{{cite web|url=http://files.lsba.org/documents/publications/BarJournal/Journal-Feature8-Dec12Jan13.pdf|title="We Call Her "Kitty Ann"|author=John James Jewell|publisher=''Louisiana State Bar Journal''|date=December 2012|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> The couple resided in Ventress in Pointe Coupee Parish. Their children are Kevin Hudson Kimball wife (Trish), Catherine Kimball Leggio (husband Dr. Chris), and Lyria Kimball O'Brien (husband Shawn). They formerly lived in the parish seat of New Roads. The family is [[Roman Catholic]].<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Clyde W. Kimball," ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007-2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2007), p. 663.</ref><br />
<br />
Kimball was a nephew of Dan Kimball, a long-time judge of the Louisiana 18th Judicial District court for Iberville, West Baton Rouge, and Pointe Coupee parishes. When Dan Kimball died in 1982, Catherine Kimball was elected to succeed him and held that seat for a decade before she joined the state Supreme Court.<ref name=barassn/> <br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kimball, Clyde}}<br />
[[Category:Louisiana People]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
[[Category:State Representatives]]<br />
[[Category:Former Democrats]]<br />
[[Category:Independents]]<br />
[[Category:Catholics]]<br />
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Clyde_Kimball&diff=2207092Clyde Kimball2026-10-05T01:49:08Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder <br />
| name=Clyde Walker Kimball<br />
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for District 29 (then Pointe Coupee<br> and West Baton Rouge parishes)]]<br />
| term_start=1976<br />
| term_end=1992<br />
| preceded=Roy Robillard<br><br />
[[Robert Freeman]]<br />
| succeeded=Buster Guzzardo, Sr.<br><br />
Michael W. Russo<br><br />
Sharon Weston Broome<br />
| birth date=July 11, 1942<br />
| birth_place=New Roads, Pointe Coupee Parish<br />
| death_date=October 2, 2026 (aged 84)<br />
| death_cause =<br />
| resting_place=Body donated to medical science<br />
| residence=[[Ventress, Louisiana|Ventress]]<br><br />
[[Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana|Pointe Coupee Parish]]<br><br />
[[Louisiana]], USA<br />
| occupation=Jewelry salesman<br><br />
Parole & probation officer<br><br />
Oil company employee<br><br />
Founding member of People's Bank of Pointe Coupee Parish<ref name=obit/> <br />
| spouse=Catherine D. "Kitty" Kimball<br />
| children=Kevin Hudson Kimball<br><br />
Catherine Kimball Leggio<br><br />
Lyria Kimball O'Brien<br><br />
Seven grandchildren<br><br />
One great-grandson<br />
'''Parents''':<br><br />
Albert Eugene "AE" and Edna Erle Walker Kimball <br />
| relations=Judge Dan Kimball (uncle)<br />
| alma_mater =Poydras High School<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]]<br />
| religion =[[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]<br />
| party = [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] / later No Party voter<br />
}}<br />
'''Clyde Walker Kimball''' (July 11, 1942 &ndash; October 2, 2026)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://obituaries.theadvocate.com/obituary/clyde-kimball-1094074656|title=Clyde Walker Kimball obituary|publisher=''Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 3, 2026}}</ref> was a former [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for District 29, which included his own Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes, [[Louisiana]]. He served in the House from 1976 to 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 30, 2020}}</ref> As of May 2015, Kimball was registered as a "No Party" voter by the office of then Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2064815|title=Type in Clyde Kimball, July 1942|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 25, 2015}}</ref><br />
<br />
Kimball obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=whoswho/> He won his third term in the House in 1983 with 77 percent of the vote over fellow Democrat Emmet Spooner<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983.</ref> and his fourth and final term in 1987, with 71 percent over another Democrat, Thomas L. "Tommy" Zito.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> In 1992, Kimball did not seek a fifth term in the House. The [[African-American]] Democrat Sharon Weston Broome, since the Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, won the District 29 seat in a revised districting..<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref> <br />
<br />
After his sixteen years in the state House, Kimball joined the fourth administration of [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]] as the assistant director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.<ref name=whoswho/> He was retained in the position by Edwards' s final successor as governor, [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Mike Foster]]. In 1999, Kimball ran unsuccessfully for the District 17 seat in the state Senate. He placed third in the nonpartisan blanket primary. Victory went to his fellow Democrat Rob Marionneaux.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 23, 1999.</ref><br />
<br />
Kimball's wife, Catherine D. Kimball, a native of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana, is the retired chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. When he ceased to run for the House in 1992, Kimball instead worked in his wife's campaign for the Supreme Court; their persistence paid off, as she carried all twelve parishes her district ranging from St. Landry to East Baton Rouge parishes.<ref name=barassn>{{cite web|url=http://files.lsba.org/documents/publications/BarJournal/Journal-Feature8-Dec12Jan13.pdf|title="We Call Her "Kitty Ann"|author=John James Jewell|publisher=''Louisiana State Bar Journal''|date=December 2012|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> The couple resided in Ventress in Pointe Coupee Parish. Their children are Kevin Hudson Kimball wife (Trish), Catherine Kimball Leggio (husband Dr. Chris), and Lyria Kimball O'Brien (husband Shawn). They formerly lived in the parish seat of New Roads. The family is [[Roman Catholic]].<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Clyde W. Kimball," ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007-2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2007), p. 663.</ref><br />
<br />
Kimball was a nephew of Dan Kimball, a long-time judge of the Louisiana 18th Judicial District court for Iberville, West Baton Rouge, and Pointe Coupee parishes. When Dan Kimball died in 1982, Catherine Kimball was elected to succeed him and held that seat for a decade before she joined the state Supreme Court.<ref name=barassn/> <br />
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[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Clyde_Kimball&diff=2207091Clyde Kimball2026-10-05T01:48:17Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder <br />
| name=Clyde Walker Kimball<br />
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for District 29 (then Pointe Coupee<br> and West Baton Rouge parishes)]]<br />
| term_start=1976<br />
| term_end=1992<br />
| preceded=Roy Robillard<br><br />
[[Robert Freeman]]<br />
| succeeded=Buster Guzzardo, Sr.<br><br />
Michael W. Russo<br><br />
Sharon Weston Broome<br />
| birth date=July 11, 1942<br />
| birth_place=New Roads, Pointe Coupee Parish<br />
| death_date=October 2, 2026 (aged 84)<br />
| death_cause =<br />
| resting_place=Donated body to medical science<br />
| residence=[[Ventress, Louisiana|Ventress]]<br><br />
[[Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana|Pointe Coupee Parish]]<br><br />
[[Louisiana]], USA<br />
| occupation=Jewelry salesman<br><br />
Parole & probation officer<br><br />
Oil company employee<br><br />
Founding member of People's Bank of Pointe Coupee Parish<ref name=obit/> <br />
| spouse=Catherine D. "Kitty" Kimball<br />
| children=Kevin Hudson Kimball<br><br />
Catherine Kimball Leggio<br><br />
Lyria Kimball O'Brien<br><br />
Seven grandchildren<br><br />
One great-grandson<br />
'''Parents''':<br><br />
Albert Eugene "AE" and Edna Erle Walker Kimball <br />
| relations=Judge Dan Kimball (uncle)<br />
| alma_mater =Poydras High School<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]]<br />
| religion =[[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]<br />
| party = [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] / later No Party voter<br />
}}<br />
'''Clyde Walker Kimball''' (July 11, 1942 &ndash; October 2, 2026)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://obituaries.theadvocate.com/obituary/clyde-kimball-1094074656|title=Clyde Walker Kimball obituary|publisher=''Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 3, 2026}}</reef> was a former [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for District 29, which included his own Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes, [[Louisiana]]. He served in the House from 1976 to 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 30, 2020}}</ref> As of May 2015, Kimball was registered as a "No Party" voter by the office of then Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2064815|title=Type in Clyde Kimball, July 1942|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 25, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Kimball obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=whoswho/> He won his third term in the House in 1983 with 77 percent of the vote over fellow Democrat Emmet Spooner<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983.</ref> and his fourth and final term in 1987, with 71 percent over another Democrat, Thomas L. "Tommy" Zito.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> In 1992, Kimball did not seek a fifth term in the House. The [[African-American]] Democrat Sharon Weston Broome, since the Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, won the District 29 seat in a revised districting..<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref> <br />
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After his sixteen years in the state House, Kimball joined the fourth administration of [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]] as the assistant director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.<ref name=whoswho/> He was retained in the position by Edwards' s final successor as governor, [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Mike Foster]]. In 1999, Kimball ran unsuccessfully for the District 17 seat in the state Senate. He placed third in the nonpartisan blanket primary. Victory went to his fellow Democrat Rob Marionneaux.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 23, 1999.</ref><br />
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Kimball's wife, Catherine D. Kimball, a native of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana, is the retired chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. When he ceased to run for the House in 1992, Kimball instead worked in his wife's campaign for the Supreme Court; their persistence paid off, as she carried all twelve parishes her district ranging from St. Landry to East Baton Rouge parishes.<ref name=barassn>{{cite web|url=http://files.lsba.org/documents/publications/BarJournal/Journal-Feature8-Dec12Jan13.pdf|title="We Call Her "Kitty Ann"|author=John James Jewell|publisher=''Louisiana State Bar Journal''|date=December 2012|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> The couple resided in Ventress in Pointe Coupee Parish. Their children are Kevin Hudson Kimball wife (Trish), Catherine Kimball Leggio (husband Dr. Chris), and Lyria Kimball O'Brien (husband Shawn). They formerly lived in the parish seat of New Roads. The family is [[Roman Catholic]].<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Clyde W. Kimball," ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007-2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2007), p. 663.</ref><br />
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Kimball was a nephew of Dan Kimball, a long-time judge of the Louisiana 18th Judicial District court for Iberville, West Baton Rouge, and Pointe Coupee parishes. When Dan Kimball died in 1982, Catherine Kimball was elected to succeed him and held that seat for a decade before she joined the state Supreme Court.<ref name=barassn/> <br />
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[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Marietta_LeBreton&diff=2205716Marietta LeBreton2026-09-22T20:14:28Z<p>BHathorn2: /* See also */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
| name=Marietta Marie LeBreton<br />
(Louisiana historian affiliated with<br> Northwestern State University)<br />
| image=Marietta LeBreton of LA.jpg<br />
| birth_date=March 26, 1936<br />
| birth_place=[[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]<br />
| death_date=March 5, 2009 (aged 72)<br />
| death_place=[[Shreveport]], Louisiana<br><br />
'''Resting place''':<br><br />
Metaire Cemetery in New Orleans<br />
| religion=[[Roman Catholic]]<br />
|spouse =Never married<br><br />
'''Parents''':<br><br />
Guy J., Sr., and Marietta Marie Schneidau LeBreton<br><br />
'''Alma mater''':<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]]<br><br />
'''Notes''':<br><br />
*The [[historian]] LeBreton completed all of her university studies at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]] and spent her entire teaching and research career at [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], [[Louisiana]].<br />
*In 1985, LeBreton published the centennial history of NSU, 1884-1984.<br />
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'''Marietta Marie LeBreton''' (March 26, 1936 &ndash; March 5, 2009) was an [[historian]] of [[Louisiana]] affiliated for forty-five years with [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]].<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54412453/marietta-marie-lebreton|title=Marietta Marie LeBreton|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 25, 2020}}</ref><br />
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==Background==<br />
LeBreton (pronounced LEH BRE TOHN) was the only daughter of four children born to the late Guy Joseph LeBreton, Sr. (born 1894), and and the former Marietta Marie Schneidau (born 1898). She was reared in Metairie in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. She obtained all three of her degrees in history, [[Bachelor of Arts]], [[Master of Arts]], and [[Ph.D.]], from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. She had three brothers and nine nieces and nephews.<ref name=legacy>{{cite web|url=http://natchitochespreservation.ning.com/forum/topics/remembering-dr-marietta|title= Remembering Dr. Marietta LeBreton, professor, historian and mentor at NSU-LA|publisher=Natchitoches Preservation Network|accessdate=October 5, 2009; may not be on-line, requires registration}}</ref><br />
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One of her brothers, Arthur James LeBreton, Sr. (1931-2013), was a [[petroleum]] [[engineer]] for the Halliburton Corporation in [[Lafayette]], Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvertiser/obituary.aspx?pid=167001210|title=Arthur LeBreton obituary|publisher=''The Lafayette Advertiser''|date=September 17, 2013|accessdate=April 25, 2020}}</ref> He was married to the former Frances Kentner (c. 1929-2022), a native of [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obits.nola.com/us/obituaries/nola/name/frances-lebreton-obituary?id=35147659|title=Frances LeBreton obituary|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=June 10, 2022|accessdate=June 11, 2022}}</ref>. The other brothers were Capt. Guy J. LeBreton, Jr. (1925-2011), of [[San Francisco]], [[California]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68113611/guy-joseph-lebreton|title=Capt. Guy Joseph LeBreton|publisher=Findagrave|accessdate=April 25, 2020}}</ref><br />
and Hilliard Antoine LeBreton (1933-2002).<ref>{{cite web|url=<br />
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvertiser/obituary.aspx?pid=167001210|title=Arthur LeBreton obituary|publisher=''The Lafayette Advertiser''|date=September 17, 2013|accessdate=April 25, 2020}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
LeBreton joined the NSU faculty at the age of twenty-seven in 1963 as an instructor of social science. She was promoted to assistant professor of history in 1965, associate professor in 1970, and full professor in 1973. In 1980, she was named to succeed [[Donald Rawson]] as the chairman of the NSU Department of History after president [[René Bienvenu]] tapped Rawson as the Dean of the Graduate School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2207102?uid=3739920&uid=2129&uid=2134&uid=2485183163&uid=2485183153&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3&uid=3739256&uid=60&sid=21104955297203|title=Historical News and Notices|page=156|publisher=jstor.org: ''The Journal of Southern History'', Vol. 47 (No. 1)|date=February 1981|accessdate=April 24, 2020}}</ref> LeBreton left the chairmanship in 1983, when the department was renamed Social Sciences. She returned to teaching and was still on the history faculty in the spring of 2009 when she was stricken with a brief but fatal illness. <br />
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She authored ''Northwestern State University: A History 1884-1984,''<ref>{{cite book|url=http://openlibrary.org/b/OL2555618M/Northwestern_State_University_of_Louisiana__1884-1984|title=Northwestern State University of Louisiana, 1884-1984: A History|publisher=openlibrary.org|accessdate=April 24, 2020}}</ref> which was published in 1985 by the NSU Press for the university centennial.<ref name=author>{{cite web|url=http://northwesternalumni.com/s/859/images/FileLibrary/dec14401-49cc-4210-9014-8f8462345151.pdf|title=Author of NSU History Dies|publisher=northwesternalumni.com|accessdate=October 5, 2009; no longer on-line}}</ref><br />
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LeBreton authored "The Acadians" chapter of Stephan Thernstrom's ''Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups.'' She also wrote a geographic and historical article about [[Dorcheat Bayou]], a scenic wonder in southwestern [[Arkansas]] and Webster Parish, Louisiana, in the book ''Rivers and Bayous of Louisiana." She wrote "The Burr Conspiracy", a chapter of the ''Readings in Louisiana History," of which she was also the associate editor.<ref name=author/> In 1974, LeBreton wrote a position paper on Article III of the Louisiana Constitution of 1812 entitled "[[Edwin Edwards]]: The Role of the Governor in Louisiana Politics: An Historical Analysis," which was published in the periodical, ''Louisiana History,'' based at the University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]].<ref name=royal/><br />
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==Death and legacy==<br />
LeBreton died three weeks prior to her 73rd birthday in a [[Shreveport]] hospital.<ref name=royal>{{cite web|url=http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper178/documents/2qp0yd21.pdf|author=David Royal|title=History professor leaves legacy at NSU: University thanks LeBreton for 45 years of service|publisher=media.collegepublisher.com|accessdate=October 5, 2009; no longer on-line}}</ref> Services were held on March 11, 2009, at Holy Cross [[Roman Catholic]] Church <ref name=legacy/> in Natchitoches, with the Reverend Jason Gootee officiating, and on March 12 at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home Chapel in New Orleans with interment there at Metairie Cemetery.<ref name=findagrave/> <br />
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NSU President [[Randall Webb]] noted that LeBreton's longevity was one of the most enduring in NSU history. She was a faculty member for more than a third of the existence of the institution.<ref name=author/><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[James L. McCorkle, Jr.]]<br />
*[[Donald Rawson]]<br />
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[[Category:Catholics]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Betty_Jane_Gorin-Smith&diff=2205277Betty Jane Gorin-Smith2026-09-17T19:02:12Z<p>BHathorn2: /* Family and education */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
| name=Betty Jane Mitchell Gorin-Smith<br />
(Civil War historian and retired Kentucky educator)<br />
| image=Betty Jane Gorin-Smith of KY..jpg<br />
| birth_date=December 18, 1940<br />
| birth_place=Campbellsville<br>Taylor County, Kentucky<br />
|spouse=(1) Donald L. Gorin (divorced)<br><br />
(2) Gordon E. Smith<br><br />
'''Children from first marriage''':<br><br />
Mark Alan Gorin<br ><br />
Beth Gorin Cox<br><br />
Four granddaughters<br><br />
'''Parents''':<br><br />
Flo Minor Mitchell Smith<br><br />
David Heistand Mitchell<br><br />
'''Alma mater''':<br><br />
[[University of Kentucky]]<br><br />
Western Kentucky University<br><br />
Middle Tennessee State University<br />
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]<br />
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br />
|website=http://bettyjgorin.com/other.html}}<br />
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'''Betty Jane Mitchell Gorin-Smith''', known as '''Betty Jane Gorin-Smith''' (born December 18, 1940), is an independent [[historian]] from Campbellsville in Taylor County in central [[Kentucky]], best known for her book ''Morgan Is Coming!: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky,'' a 452-page study of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[General]] John Hunt Morgan's raids in 1863 during the height of the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=book>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Morgan-Coming-Confederate-Heartland-Kentucky/dp/1564691349|title=Morgan Is Coming: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky|author=Betty Jane Gorin-Smith|publisher=Harmony House, accessed on Amazon.com|isbn=978-1-56469-134-7|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref><br />
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A historic preservationist, Gorin-Smith worked to establish the Heartland Civil War Trails project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trailsrus.com/morgan/pr-704.html|title=John Hunt Morgan in Kentucky, August 18, 2004|publisher=trailsrus.com|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref> She has been a primary leader of the preservation effort at the Battle of Tebbs Bend in Taylor and Adair counties. She is the author of the ''Green River Bridge Battlefield Driving Tour.''<ref name=book/> In 2004, then [[U.S. Representative]] Ron Lewis honored Gorin-Smith on the House floor and proclaimed her the "historian laureate" for the Kentucky Heartland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r108:114:./temp/~r108ZgaJzh::|title=Honoring Betty Jane Gorin-Smith|publisher=''[[Congressional Record]]'': 108th Congress|date=June 2, 2004|accessdate=February 25, 2011; material no longer on-line}}</ref><br />
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==Family and education==<br />
Gorin-Smith was born in Campbellsville to the former Floye Minor (1917–2003) and David Heistand Mitchell (1919-1995). After Floye and David Mitchell divorced, Floye, a bookkeeper, in 1959 married Howard Smith<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.com/wp/2003/04/23/floye-minor-smith/|title=Floye Minor Smith obituary|publisher=campbellsville.com|date=April 23, 2003|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref> (1906–1972), the owner of the Taylor County Stockyards. David H. Mitchell was a 1941 graduate in [[economics]] from [[Harvard College]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. He also attended the [[University of Minnesota]], where he studied [[Japan|Japanese]]. His business career was with the Timken Company, which relocated him to [[Cincinnati]] and [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]], [[Ohio]]. He was a veteran of the [[United States Army]] in [[World War II]]. Mitchell was a member of Mensa International and the American Numismatic Association.<ref>David H. Mitchell obituary, ''Central Kentucky News-Journal accessed February 25, 2011.</ref><br />
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Betty Jane Mitchell graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the [[University of Kentucky]] at [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]]. She has also studied at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, [[Tennessee]], and the [[University of Virginia]] at Charlottesville, [[Virginia]]. She formerly taught history for some three decades at Taylor County High School and at [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Campbellsville University]] in Campbellsville and Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia in Adair County, Kentucky. In 1987, she was a [[J. William Fulbright|Fulbright]] scholar in the [[Netherlands]].<ref name=awards>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.edu/Websites/cu/Files/Content/740887/cvilliansum04.pdf|author=Joan C. McKinney|title=Campbellsville University presents second Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards|page=5|publisher=campbellsville.edu|accessdate=February 25, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref><br />
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Betty Jane Mitchell first married Donald L. Gorin (1940-2000), a Taylor County native and graduate of Campbellsville High School and Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, where he played [[basketball]] and [[baseball]]. He served in the Kentucky National Guard. He was a partner in the firm Blevins-Gorin Construction Company and a founder of Wholesale Hardwood Interiors. In 1990, Don Gorin was named "Kentucky Entrepreneur of the Year" by the accounting firm, Ernst & Young. The Gorins have a son, Mark Alan Gorin (born ca. 1965) and wife, Deborah, of Carmel, [[Indiana]], and a daughter, Beth G. Cox (born ca. 1968) and husband Michael Todd Cox (born ca. 1966), of Hendersonville, Tennessee.<ref name=awards/><ref name=dgorin>Don Gorin obituary, ''Central Kentucky News-Journal,'' accessed February 25, 2011.</ref> Don Gorin also had a second son by a later marriage, Brandon Gorin, who resided in [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], at the time of his father's death.<ref name=dgorin/><br />
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After her divorce, Betty Gorin married Gordon E. Smith (born ca. 1928), an instructor in the English as a Second Language program at Campbellsville University,<ref name=awards/> and hence acquired her hyphenated name. Gordon Smith edited his wife's book on General Morgan, which is considered exceptionally well-researched.<ref name=book/><br />
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==''Morgan Is Coming!''==<br />
On July 4, 1863, the day that the Confederates surrendered at Vicksburg, [[Mississippi]], and marched south in defeat from [[Battle of Gettysburg|Gettysburg]], [[Pennsylvania]], another battle occurred beyond the line separating Taylor and Adair counties. This battle of Tebbs Bend launched General Morgan's Great Raid into Indiana and Ohio.<ref name=tebbs>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=11137|title=Confederate troops marched across Tutt Street when it was just a path|date=May 25, 2004|publisher=columbiamagazine.com|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref><br />
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Union soldiers had crowded about the Adair County courthouse square in Columbia, as Confederate troops marched northward from Burkesville in Cumberland County by what is now Kentucky Highway 704 and Route 61. Tutt Street in Columbia was then the dividing line between the two armies. Mostly forgotten outside Kentucky, Tebbs Bend was among the bloodiest encounters of the war in the Western theater. Later Kentucky [[Governor]] James Bennett McCreary (1838-1918), a Confederate [[major]], wrote in his diary: "Many of our best men were killed or wounded. The beginning of this raid is ominous." Tebbs Bend deflected the Confederates from proceeding to [[Louisville]], which seemed as weakly defended at that time as [[Washington, D.C.]], had been in August 1814 during the [[War of 1812]].<ref name=tebbs/><br />
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Jacob F. Lee in December 2007 reviewed Gorin-Smith's book for the Filson Historical Society:<br />
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Gorin's most important contribution to the literature is a detailed study of south central Kentucky during the war. The work is most useful for the information Gorin collected about Taylor County and the surrounding area. While the [[narrative]] is sometimes bogged down with excessive detail, Kentucky historians and genealogists will find the book to be a gold mine of information. In addition to the narrative, Gorin put together several appendices listing Taylor County soldiers in the Civil War, casualties of the Battle of Tebb's Bend, official reports related to the battle, and period correspondence from Kentuckians who lived around Campbellsville. Gorin also includes extensive illustrations of persons and places referred to in the text. ...<br />
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Gorin provides a well-documented history of the cavalryman's career in the area around Taylor County. However, she also raises many questions. While readers will learn much about Confederate raiders and guerrillas in the area, one wonders about the effects of the Union troops stationed in Taylor County. How did they interact with the community? Almost 10,500 slaves lived in the five counties Gorin studies. How did the demise of [[slavery]] affect whites and blacks in the area? That being said, Gorin has produced an informative study of the Civil War in south central Kentucky.<ref name=book/></blockquote><br />
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Gorin-Smith is the founder of the Tebbs Bend Battlefield Association<ref name=histawards/> <br />
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==Campbellsville's "Factory"==<br />
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Gorin-Smith studied the impact of the Fruit of the Loom plant on Taylor County during the years from 1952 until layoffs began in 1997, and the plant closed at the end of 1998. With overtime compensation, some factory workers made more money than schoolteachers, according to Gorin-Smith. "The Factory, as the townspeople called the company, earlier seemed the ticket to economic stability in Campbellsville. A victim of [[globalization]], the plant nevertheless shut down and moved to [[Latin America]], but [[Amazon.com]] moved into the community to replace some of the lost jobs. Not long afterward, another mainstay of the local economy, the Indiana-based Batesville Casket Company closed its Campbellsville factory. Gorin-Smith observed that in the rural area surrounding Campbellsville "there are a lot of brick houses. I call those 'Fruit of the Loom' houses or 'Factory' houses. The men farmed, and the women worked at the factory. Factory money built those houses, not farm money."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/36/kentucky.html?page=0%2C1|author=Charles Fishman |title=Same Place, Different World |date=June 30, 2000|publisher=fastcompany.com|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref><br />
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Gorin-Smith recalls that the city of Campbellsville had planned to construct a sewer system to treat wastewater from the Fruit of the Loom plant. Then [[Mayor]] [[Robert L. Miller]] had consulted with William F. "Bill" Farley, who purchased the company in 1985. According to Gorin-Smith, Farley promised Miller that the Campbellsville plant would remain operational. The closing, however, was completed as Miller, after thirty-three years in office, lost reelection in 1998 to [[Paul E. Osborne]], a Campbellsville [[real estate]] agent. "That really hurt Bob to be betrayed like that," said Gorin-Smith.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cknj.com/content/community-icon-dies-age-83<br />
|author=Rebecca Cassell|title=Community icon dies at age 83: Robert L. Miller was mayor of Campbellsville for 33 yearspublisher=''Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=February 12, 2011|accessdate=February 21, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref><br />
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==Other pursuits==<br />
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Betty and Gordon Smith were among those who worked on the pictoral history publication, ''The History of Campbellsville University, 1906-2006'', the narrative of which was written by [[J. Chester Badgett]], retired pastor of the Campbellsville Baptist Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.edu/Websites/cu/Files/Content/740887/cvilliansept05.pdf|author=Joan C. McKinney|title=CU centennial books to be published|page 30|publisher=campbellsville.edu|accessdate=February 25, 2011; material no longer on-line}}</ref><br />
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In 2009, Gorin-Smith appeared before the Taylor County Project Development Authority to discuss placing historical markers in the more accurate locations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://courts.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/DD1221AC-C974-4A8A-95AF-91ACA27CB894/0/TaylorCoPDBMin2009511.pdf|title=Minutes of the Taylor County Project Development Authority|date=May 11, 2009|publisher=courts.ky.gov|accessdate=February 25, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref><br />
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The Hiestands, ancestors of Gorin-Smith's father, David Hiestand Mitchell, were early settlers of Campbellsville. The Jacob Heistand House, which dates from 1823, is a [[museum]] in Campbellsville, another project of Gorin-Smith's historical preservation efforts.<ref name=hmuseum/> It is one of only twelve such German houses in Kentucky.<ref name=histawards/> Gorin-Smith often provides guided tours at the museum.<ref name=hmuseum>{{cite web|url=http://wn.com/John_Hiestand|title=Hiestand Museum (video)|publisher=wn.com|accessdate=February 25, 2011; no longer accessible on-line}}</ref> In 2008 and 2009, Citizens Bank of Campbellsville donated $2,500 to the museum in recognition of its significance to the [[tourism]] industry of central Kentucky.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cknj.com/content/citizens-donates-hiestand-house|title=Citizens donates to Heistand House|publisher=''Central Kentucky New-Journal''|date=April 29, 2009|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref> In 2008, two other Campbellsville banks, Taylor County and Community, each gave $1,000 to sustain the facility.<ref>"Business," johnkenyon.com, accessed February 25, 2011; no longer on-line.</ref><br />
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In July 2004, Campbellsville University presented Gorin-Smith with the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, named for Algernon Sydney Sullivan, the founder of the [[New York City]] law firm Sullivan and Cromwell. CU President [[Michael V. Carter]] hailed Gorin-Smith's academic and community accomplishments, which "illustrate the wide breadth of her service, knowledge, achievements and civic engagement. ... [She has] a vast knowledge of the history of not only Taylor County but this entire region of our commonwealth."<ref name=awards/><br />
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On November 6, 2015, Gorin-Smith received the annual "Award of Distinction" from the Kentucky Historical Society to commend her efforts toward the preservation of state history. Earlier on October 10, she was named the winner of the "Edith S. Bingham Excellence in Preservation Education Award."<ref name=histawards>{{cite web|url=http://www.cknj.com/content/gorin-smith-receives-history-award|title=Gorin-Smith receives history award: Also presented Excellence in Preservation Education Award|publisher=''Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=November 16, 2015|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref><br />
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In March 1, 2023, Gorin-Smith was honored with "Betty Jane Gorin-Smith Recognition and Appreciation Day." According to a proclamation from Mayor Dennis Benningfield, the city of Campbellsville will recognize Gorin-Smith each year at the end of "Black History Month," a topic included in her historical research and writings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pmg-ky2.com/cknj/features/betty-jane-gorin-smith-honored-with-proclamation/article_93c14f3e-02c0-58fb-81f3-76b815c4ca97.html|title=Betty Jane Gorin-Smith honored with proclamation|author=Alexandra Brockman|publisher=''the Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=March 2, 2023|accessdate=March 7, 2023}}</ref><br />
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=James Crawford "Jam" Downs<br />
| image=Jam Downs of LA.jpg<br />
| office=District Attorney for the 9th Judicial District (Rapides Parish, [[Louisiana]])<br />
| term_start =December 2000<br />
| term_end=January 2015 <br />
| preceded=Charles F. Wagner<br />
| succeeded=Phillip Terrell<br />
| birth_date=October 7, 1940<br />
| birth_place=[[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana<br><br />
(Reared in Cheneyville in south Rapides Parish<br />
| residence=Lecompte, south Rapides Parish<br />
| death_date=September 5, 2026 (aged 85)<br />
| death_place=Lecompte, Louisiana<br />
| resting_place=Henderson-James Family Cemetery in Boyce<br />
| religion=[[Catholic]]<br />
| occupation=[[Attorney]]<br />
| spouse=Maureen Stewart Downs<br />
| parents=Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs<br><br />
Alice Daigre Downs Thomas<br />
| relations=[[U. T. Downs]] (grandfather)<br />
[[J. Earl Downs]] (uncle)<br><br />
[[James U. Downs]] (cousin)<br><br />
Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr. (maternal uncle)<br />
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}<br />
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'''James Crawford Downs''', known as '''Jam Downs''' (October 7, 1940 &ndash; September 5, 2026), was the former district attorney of the [[Louisiana]] 9th Judicial District Court based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], a position which he retained held from 2000 to 2015.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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Downs, who had two sisters, was the son of Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985) of Alexandria who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature and was a confidant of [[Governor]]s [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] and [[John J. McKeithen]]. His mother, the former Alice Daigre (pronounced 'Dage'), subsequently Alice Downs and then Alice Thomas (1914-1994), was a sister of the Alexandria consulting engineer Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr.<ref name=jamdowns/> (1915-1981). Sammy Downs is interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]].<ref>''[[Alexandria Town Talk]],'' May 15, 1985.</ref> Alice Daigre Downs Thomas, who died nine years after the passing of her first husband, from whom she was divorced, is interred at the Henderson James Cemetery in rural Hot Wells in Rapides Parish, where Jam Downs also rests.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk,'' August 22, 1994.</ref><br />
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Downs' uncle, [[J. Earl Downs]], was the public safety commissioner prior to 1963 in [[Shreveport]], where he served alongside [[Mayor]]s [[James C. Gardner]] and [[Clyde Fant]].<ref>[[Elliott Stonecipher]], "Shreveport History: In Support of the Spring Street Museum," February 4, 2012.</ref> He was unseated in the 1962 Democratic primary by George Wendell D'Artois, Sr. (1925-1977).<br />
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==Legal career==<br />
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Like his father, Downs is a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] and a graduate of [[Louisiana State University]] and the LSU Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]]. He was the clerk to Judge [[J. Cleveland Frugé]] of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal in [[Lake Charles]]. Prior to his election as DA, Downs had been an assistant district attorney and the city attorney for Boyce in northern Rapides Parish. He is known for his interest in conservation, hunting, and enforcement of game laws. He was born in Alexandria but reared in [[rural]] Cheneyville in south Rapides Parish. He was married to the former Maureen Stewart.<ref name=jamdowns>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222062258/http://www.lwaa.org/pdf/LGW_spring_2005%204.pdf|author=Rick Markway|title="The Prosecutor: District Attorney James Crawford 'Jam' Downs" |publisher=Lwaa.org |accessdate=June 27, 2013}}</ref><br />
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"Jam" Downs is unrelated to the late John Harden Barnett Downs, known as Johnny Downs, a five-term member of the Alexandria City Council and the namesake of the Johnny Downs Sports Complex at 271 Vandenburg Drive in Alexandria.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://otbelgard.com/pignut/pages/genealogy/f983.html|title=John Harden Barnett Downs|publisher=otbelgard.com|accessdate=July 5, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://plus.google.com/106880624859852578694/about?gl=us&hl=en|title=Johnny Downs Sports Complex|publisher=plus.google.com|accessdate=July 5, 2013; no longer on-line.}}</ref><br />
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Three candidates ran in the [[primary]] held on November 4, 2014, to choose a successor to Downs, who customarily ran without an opponent. One was then state Representative [[Chris Hazel]], a [[Republican Party|Republican]] from Ball, Louisiana, and a former assistant DA under Downs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140429/NEWS01/304290022/Boyce-businessman-Grant-announces-run-Congress-Hazel-won-t-run-seat|author=Jeff Matthews|title=Boyce businessman Grant announces run for Congress; Hazel won't run for [U.S. House] seat|date=April 28, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref> Democrat [[Chris Roy, Jr.|Christopher J. Roy, Jr.]], a Democratic former state representative and a brother of Jacques Roy, the former mayor of Alexandria, also sought the position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140219/NEWS01/140219001/Chris-Roy-Jr-run-Rapides-Parish-district-attorney|title=Chris Roy Jr. to run for Rapides Parish district attorney, February 19, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref> <br />
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However, the winner of the race to succeed Downs was Phillip Terrell, Jr., a former city judge in Pineville with decades of legal experience.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140404/NEWS01/140404003/Phillip-Terrell-former-Pineville-judge-enters-race-Rapides-Parish-district-attorney|title=Phillip Terrell, former Pineville judge, enters race for Rapides Parish district attorney, April 4, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref>Terrell defeated Hazel in a close runoff election on December 6 and succeeded Downs in January 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/12062014/12062014_40.html|title=Runoff election returns, December 6, 2014|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref> In 2018, Hazel won a special election for a judgeship on the 9th Judicial District Court.<br />
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In his private time, Downs hunted and scouted in the forest, listened to music, and spent time with his five children and eleven grandchildren at his home, Pegram House in Lecompte, which he and his wife Maureen subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For this effort, the Downses received the 2008 "Preservationists of the Year" award from the Historical Association of Central Louisiana. At his retirement, he was, according to his obituary, "described by many as tough, honest, intelligent, fair and compassionate. It was said that there would be big boots to fill by any that followed in his footsteps."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetowntalk.com/obituaries/plou1558202|title=James Crawford "Jam" Downs obituary|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=September 8, 2026|accessdate=September 9, 2026}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Democrats]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Jam_Downs&diff=2204241Jam Downs2026-09-09T11:09:52Z<p>BHathorn2: /* Legal career */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=James Crawford "Jam" Downs<br />
| image=Jam Downs of LA.jpg<br />
| office=District Attorney for the 9th Judicial District (Rapides Parish, [[Louisiana]])<br />
| term_start =December 2000<br />
| term_end=January 2015 <br />
| preceded=Charles F. Wagner<br />
| succeeded =Phillip Terrell<br />
| birth_date=October 7, 1940<br />
| birth_place=[[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana<br />
| residence=Lecompte, south Rapides Parish<br />
| death_date=September 5, 2026 (aged 85)<br />
| death_place=Lecompte, Louisiana<br />
| resting_place=Henderson-James Family Cemetery in Boyce<br />
| religion=[[Catholic]]<br />
| occupation=[[Attorney]]<br />
| spouse=Maureen Stewart Downs<br />
| parents=Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs<br><br />
Alice Daigre Downs Thomas<br />
| relations=[[U. T. Downs]] (grandfather)<br />
[[J. Earl Downs]] (uncle)<br><br />
[[James U. Downs]] (cousin)<br><br />
Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr. (maternal uncle)<br />
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}<br />
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'''James Crawford Downs''', known as '''Jam Downs''' (October 7, 1940 &ndash; September 5, 2026), was the former district attorney of the [[Louisiana]] 9th Judicial District Court based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], a position which he retained held from 2000 to 2015.<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
Downs, who had two sisters, was the son of Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985) of Alexandria who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature and was a confidant of [[Governor]]s [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] and [[John J. McKeithen]]. His mother, the former Alice Daigre (pronounced 'Dage'), subsequently Alice Downs and then Alice Thomas (1914-1994), was a sister of the Alexandria consulting engineer Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr.<ref name=jamdowns/> (1915-1981). Sammy Downs is interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]].<ref>''[[Alexandria Town Talk]],'' May 15, 1985.</ref> Alice Daigre Downs Thomas, who died nine years after the passing of her first husband, from whom she was divorced, is interred at the Henderson James Cemetery in rural Hot Wells in Rapides Parish, where Jam Downs also rests.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk,'' August 22, 1994.</ref><br />
<br />
Downs' uncle, [[J. Earl Downs]], was the public safety commissioner prior to 1963 in [[Shreveport]], where he served alongside [[Mayor]]s [[James C. Gardner]] and [[Clyde Fant]].<ref>[[Elliott Stonecipher]], "Shreveport History: In Support of the Spring Street Museum," February 4, 2012.</ref> He was unseated in the 1962 Democratic primary by George Wendell D'Artois, Sr. (1925-1977).<br />
<br />
==Legal career==<br />
<br />
Like his father, Downs is a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] and a graduate of [[Louisiana State University]] and the LSU Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]]. He was the clerk to Judge [[J. Cleveland Fruge]] of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal in [[Lake Charles]]. Prior to his election as DA, Downs had been an assistant district attorney and the city attorney for Boyce in northern Rapides Parish. He is known for his interest in conservation, hunting, and enforcement of game laws. He was born in Alexandria but reared in [[rural]] Cheneyville in south Rapides Parish. He was married to the former Maureen Stewart.<ref name=jamdowns>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222062258/http://www.lwaa.org/pdf/LGW_spring_2005%204.pdf|author=Rick Markway|title="The Prosecutor: District Attorney James Crawford 'Jam' Downs" |publisher=Lwaa.org |accessdate=June 27, 2013}}</ref><br />
<br />
"Jam" Downs is unrelated to the late John Harden Barnett Downs, known as Johnny Downs, a five-term member of the Alexandria City Council and the namesake of the Johnny Downs Sports Complex at 271 Vandenburg Drive in Alexandria.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://otbelgard.com/pignut/pages/genealogy/f983.html|title=John Harden Barnett Downs|publisher=otbelgard.com|accessdate=July 5, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://plus.google.com/106880624859852578694/about?gl=us&hl=en|title=Johnny Downs Sports Complex|publisher=plus.google.com|accessdate=July 5, 2013; no longer on-line.}}</ref><br />
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Three candidates ran in the [[primary]] held on November 4, 2014, to choose a successor to Downs, who customarily ran without an opponent. One was then state Representative [[Chris Hazel]], a [[Republican Party|Republican]] from Ball, Louisiana, and a former assistant DA under Downs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140429/NEWS01/304290022/Boyce-businessman-Grant-announces-run-Congress-Hazel-won-t-run-seat|author=Jeff Matthews|title=Boyce businessman Grant announces run for Congress; Hazel won't run for [U.S. House] seat|date=April 28, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref> Democrat [[Chris Roy, Jr.|Christopher J. Roy, Jr.]], a Democratic former state representative and a brother of Jacques Roy, the former mayor of Alexandria, also sought the position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140219/NEWS01/140219001/Chris-Roy-Jr-run-Rapides-Parish-district-attorney|title=Chris Roy Jr. to run for Rapides Parish district attorney, February 19, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref> <br />
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However, the winner of the race to succeed Downs was Phillip Terrell, Jr., a former city judge in Pineville with decades of legal experience.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140404/NEWS01/140404003/Phillip-Terrell-former-Pineville-judge-enters-race-Rapides-Parish-district-attorney|title=Phillip Terrell, former Pineville judge, enters race for Rapides Parish district attorney, April 4, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref>Terrell defeated Hazel in a close runoff election on December 6 and succeeded Downs in January 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/12062014/12062014_40.html|title=Runoff election returns, December 6, 2014|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref> In 2018, Hazel won a special election for a judgeship on the 9th Judicial District Court.<br />
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In his private time, Downs hunted and scouted in the forest, listened to music, and spent time with his five children and eleven grandchildren at his home, Pegram House in Lecompte, which he and his wife Maureen subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For this effort, the Downses received the 2008 "Preservationists of the Year" award from the Historical Association of Central Louisiana. At his retirement, he was, according to his obituary, "described by many as tough, honest, intelligent, fair and compassionate. It was said that there would be big boots to fill by any that followed in his footsteps."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetowntalk.com/obituaries/plou1558202|title=James Crawford "Jam" Downs obituary|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=September 8, 2026|accessdate=September 9, 2026}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Democrats]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Jam_Downs&diff=2204240Jam Downs2026-09-09T11:06:19Z<p>BHathorn2: /* Background */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=James Crawford "Jam" Downs<br />
| image=Jam Downs of LA.jpg<br />
| office=District Attorney for the 9th Judicial District (Rapides Parish, [[Louisiana]])<br />
| term_start =December 2000<br />
| term_end=January 2015 <br />
| preceded=Charles F. Wagner<br />
| succeeded =Phillip Terrell<br />
| birth_date=October 7, 1940<br />
| birth_place=[[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana<br />
| residence=Lecompte, south Rapides Parish<br />
| death_date=September 5, 2026 (aged 85)<br />
| death_place=Lecompte, Louisiana<br />
| resting_place=Henderson-James Family Cemetery in Boyce<br />
| religion=[[Catholic]]<br />
| occupation=[[Attorney]]<br />
| spouse=Maureen Stewart Downs<br />
| parents=Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs<br><br />
Alice Daigre Downs Thomas<br />
| relations=[[U. T. Downs]] (grandfather)<br />
[[J. Earl Downs]] (uncle)<br><br />
[[James U. Downs]] (cousin)<br><br />
Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr. (maternal uncle)<br />
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}<br />
<br />
'''James Crawford Downs''', known as '''Jam Downs''' (October 7, 1940 &ndash; September 5, 2026), was the former district attorney of the [[Louisiana]] 9th Judicial District Court based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], a position which he retained held from 2000 to 2015.<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
Downs, who had two sisters, was the son of Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985) of Alexandria who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature and was a confidant of [[Governor]]s [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] and [[John J. McKeithen]]. His mother, the former Alice Daigre (pronounced 'Dage'), subsequently Alice Downs and then Alice Thomas (1914-1994), was a sister of the Alexandria consulting engineer Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr.<ref name=jamdowns/> (1915-1981). Sammy Downs is interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]].<ref>''[[Alexandria Town Talk]],'' May 15, 1985.</ref> Alice Daigre Downs Thomas, who died nine years after the passing of her first husband, from whom she was divorced, is interred at the Henderson James Cemetery in rural Hot Wells in Rapides Parish, where Jam Downs also rests.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk,'' August 22, 1994.</ref><br />
<br />
Downs' uncle, [[J. Earl Downs]], was the public safety commissioner prior to 1963 in [[Shreveport]], where he served alongside [[Mayor]]s [[James C. Gardner]] and [[Clyde Fant]].<ref>[[Elliott Stonecipher]], "Shreveport History: In Support of the Spring Street Museum," February 4, 2012.</ref> He was unseated in the 1962 Democratic primary by George Wendell D'Artois, Sr. (1925-1977).<br />
<br />
==Legal career==<br />
<br />
Like his father, Downs is a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] and a graduate of the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]]. Before his election as DA, Jam Downs had been an assistant district attorney. He is known for his interest in conservation, hunting, and enforcement of game laws. He was born in [[rural]] Cheneyville in south Rapides Parish but resides with his wife, the former Maureen Stewart, in a restored farmhouse nea Lecompte, also in Rapides Parish.<ref name=jamdowns>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222062258/http://www.lwaa.org/pdf/LGW_spring_2005%204.pdf|author=Rick Markway|title="The Prosecutor: District Attorney James Crawford 'Jam' Downs" |publisher=Lwaa.org |accessdate=June 27, 2013}}</ref><br />
<br />
"Jam" Downs is unrelated to the late John Harden Barnett Downs, known as Johnny Downs, a five-term member of the Alexandria City Council and the namesake of the Johnny Downs Sports Complex at 271 Vandenburg Drive in Alexandria.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://otbelgard.com/pignut/pages/genealogy/f983.html|title=John Harden Barnett Downs|publisher=otbelgard.com|accessdate=July 5, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://plus.google.com/106880624859852578694/about?gl=us&hl=en|title=Johnny Downs Sports Complex|publisher=plus.google.com|accessdate=July 5, 2013; no longer on-line.}}</ref><br />
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Three candidates ran in the [[primary]] held on November 4, 2014, to choose a successor to Downs, who customarily ran without an opponent. One was then state Representative [[Chris Hazel]], a [[Republican Party|Republican]] from Ball, Louisiana, and a former assistant DA under Downs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140429/NEWS01/304290022/Boyce-businessman-Grant-announces-run-Congress-Hazel-won-t-run-seat|author=Jeff Matthews|title=Boyce businessman Grant announces run for Congress; Hazel won't run for [U.S. House] seat|date=April 28, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref> Democrat [[Chris Roy, Jr.|Christopher J. Roy, Jr.]], a Democratic former state representative and a brother of Jacques Roy, the former mayor of Alexandria, also sought the position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140219/NEWS01/140219001/Chris-Roy-Jr-run-Rapides-Parish-district-attorney|title=Chris Roy Jr. to run for Rapides Parish district attorney, February 19, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref> <br />
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However, the winner of the race to succeed Downs was Phillip Terrell, Jr., a former city judge in Pineville with decades of legal experience.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140404/NEWS01/140404003/Phillip-Terrell-former-Pineville-judge-enters-race-Rapides-Parish-district-attorney|title=Phillip Terrell, former Pineville judge, enters race for Rapides Parish district attorney, April 4, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref>Terrell defeated Hazel in a close runoff election on December 6 and succeeded Downs in January 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/12062014/12062014_40.html|title=Runoff election returns, December 6, 2014|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref> In 2018, Hazel won a special election for a judgeship on the 9th Judicial District Court.<br />
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In his private time, Downs hunted and scouted in the forest, listened to music, and spent time with his five children and eleven grandchildren at his home, Pegram House in Lecompte, which he and his wife Maureen subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For this effort, the Downses received the 2008 "Preservationists of the Year" award from the Historical Association of Central Louisiana. At his retirement, he was, according to his obituary, "described by many as tough, honest, intelligent, fair and compassionate. It was said that there would be big boots to fill by any that followed in his footsteps."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetowntalk.com/obituaries/plou1558202|title=James Crawford "Jam" Downs obituary|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=September 8, 2026|accessdate=September 9, 2026}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Downs, Jam}}<br />
[[Category:Louisiana People]]<br />
[[Category:Attorneys]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Democrats]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Jam_Downs&diff=2204239Jam Downs2026-09-09T11:06:07Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=James Crawford "Jam" Downs<br />
| image=Jam Downs of LA.jpg<br />
| office=District Attorney for the 9th Judicial District (Rapides Parish, [[Louisiana]])<br />
| term_start =December 2000<br />
| term_end=January 2015 <br />
| preceded=Charles F. Wagner<br />
| succeeded =Phillip Terrell<br />
| birth_date=October 7, 1940<br />
| birth_place=[[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana<br />
| residence=Lecompte, south Rapides Parish<br />
| death_date=September 5, 2026 (aged 85)<br />
| death_place=Lecompte, Louisiana<br />
| resting_place=Henderson-James Family Cemetery in Boyce<br />
| religion=[[Catholic]]<br />
| occupation=[[Attorney]]<br />
| spouse=Maureen Stewart Downs<br />
| parents=Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs<br><br />
Alice Daigre Downs Thomas<br />
| relations=[[U. T. Downs]] (grandfather)<br />
[[J. Earl Downs]] (uncle)<br><br />
[[James U. Downs]] (cousin)<br><br />
Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr. (maternal uncle)<br />
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}<br />
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'''James Crawford Downs''', known as '''Jam Downs''' (October 7, 1940 &ndash; September 5, 2026), was the former district attorney of the [[Louisiana]] 9th Judicial District Court based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], a position which he retained held from 2000 to 2015.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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Downs, who had two sisters, was the son of Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985) of Alexandria who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature and was a confidant of [[Governor]]s [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] and [[John J. McKeithen]]. His mother, the former Alice Daigre (pronounced 'Dage'), subsequently Alice Downs and then Alice Thomas (1914-1994), was a sister of the Alexandria consulting engineer Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr.<ref name=jamdowns/> (1915-1981). Sammy Downs is interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]].<ref>''[[Alexandria Town Talk]],'' May 15, 1985.</ref> Alice Daigre Downs Thomas, who died nine years after the passing of her first husband, from whom she was divorced, is interred at the Henderson James Cemetery in rural Hot Wells in Rapides Parish, where Jam Downs also rests.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk,'' August 22, 1994.</ref><br />
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Downs' uncle, [[J. Earl Downs]], was the public safety commissioner prior to 1963 in [[Shreveport]], where he served alongside [[Mayor]]s [[James C, Gardner]] and [[Clyde Fant]].<ref>[[Elliott Stonecipher]], "Shreveport History: In Support of the Spring Street Museum," February 4, 2012.</ref> He was unseated in the 1962 Democratic primary by George Wendell D'Artois, Sr. (1925-1977).<br />
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==Legal career==<br />
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Like his father, Downs is a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] and a graduate of the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]]. Before his election as DA, Jam Downs had been an assistant district attorney. He is known for his interest in conservation, hunting, and enforcement of game laws. He was born in [[rural]] Cheneyville in south Rapides Parish but resides with his wife, the former Maureen Stewart, in a restored farmhouse nea Lecompte, also in Rapides Parish.<ref name=jamdowns>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222062258/http://www.lwaa.org/pdf/LGW_spring_2005%204.pdf|author=Rick Markway|title="The Prosecutor: District Attorney James Crawford 'Jam' Downs" |publisher=Lwaa.org |accessdate=June 27, 2013}}</ref><br />
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"Jam" Downs is unrelated to the late John Harden Barnett Downs, known as Johnny Downs, a five-term member of the Alexandria City Council and the namesake of the Johnny Downs Sports Complex at 271 Vandenburg Drive in Alexandria.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://otbelgard.com/pignut/pages/genealogy/f983.html|title=John Harden Barnett Downs|publisher=otbelgard.com|accessdate=July 5, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://plus.google.com/106880624859852578694/about?gl=us&hl=en|title=Johnny Downs Sports Complex|publisher=plus.google.com|accessdate=July 5, 2013; no longer on-line.}}</ref><br />
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Three candidates ran in the [[primary]] held on November 4, 2014, to choose a successor to Downs, who customarily ran without an opponent. One was then state Representative [[Chris Hazel]], a [[Republican Party|Republican]] from Ball, Louisiana, and a former assistant DA under Downs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140429/NEWS01/304290022/Boyce-businessman-Grant-announces-run-Congress-Hazel-won-t-run-seat|author=Jeff Matthews|title=Boyce businessman Grant announces run for Congress; Hazel won't run for [U.S. House] seat|date=April 28, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref> Democrat [[Chris Roy, Jr.|Christopher J. Roy, Jr.]], a Democratic former state representative and a brother of Jacques Roy, the former mayor of Alexandria, also sought the position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140219/NEWS01/140219001/Chris-Roy-Jr-run-Rapides-Parish-district-attorney|title=Chris Roy Jr. to run for Rapides Parish district attorney, February 19, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref> <br />
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However, the winner of the race to succeed Downs was Phillip Terrell, Jr., a former city judge in Pineville with decades of legal experience.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140404/NEWS01/140404003/Phillip-Terrell-former-Pineville-judge-enters-race-Rapides-Parish-district-attorney|title=Phillip Terrell, former Pineville judge, enters race for Rapides Parish district attorney, April 4, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref>Terrell defeated Hazel in a close runoff election on December 6 and succeeded Downs in January 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/12062014/12062014_40.html|title=Runoff election returns, December 6, 2014|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref> In 2018, Hazel won a special election for a judgeship on the 9th Judicial District Court.<br />
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In his private time, Downs hunted and scouted in the forest, listened to music, and spent time with his five children and eleven grandchildren at his home, Pegram House in Lecompte, which he and his wife Maureen subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For this effort, the Downses received the 2008 "Preservationists of the Year" award from the Historical Association of Central Louisiana. At his retirement, he was, according to his obituary, "described by many as tough, honest, intelligent, fair and compassionate. It was said that there would be big boots to fill by any that followed in his footsteps."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetowntalk.com/obituaries/plou1558202|title=James Crawford "Jam" Downs obituary|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=September 8, 2026|accessdate=September 9, 2026}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Attorneys]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=James Crawford "Jam" Downs<br />
| image=Jam Downs of LA.jpg<br />
| office=District Attorney for the 9th Judicial District (Rapides Parish, [[Louisiana]])<br />
| term_start =December 2000<br />
| term_end=January 2015 <br />
| preceded=Charles F. Wagner<br />
| succeeded =Phillip Terrell<br />
| birth_date=October 7, 1940<br />
| birth_place=Cheneyville, Rapides Parish<br />
| residence=Lecompte, Rapides Parish<br />
| death_date=September 5, 2026 (aged 85)<br />
| death_place=Lecompte, Louisiana<br />
| resting_place=Henderson-James Family Cemetery in Boyce<br />
| religion=[[Catholic]]<br />
| occupation=[[Attorney]]<br />
| spouse=Maureen Stewart Downs<br />
| parents=Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs<br><br />
Alice Daigre Downs Thomas<br />
| relations=[[U. T. Downs]] (grandfather)<br />
[[J. Earl Downs]] (uncle)<br><br />
[[James U. Downs]] (cousin)<br><br />
Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr. (maternal uncle)<br />
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}<br />
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'''James Crawford Downs''', known as '''Jam Downs''' (October 7, 1940 &ndash; September 5, 2026), was the former district attorney of the [[Louisiana]] 9th Judicial District Court based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], a position which he retained held from 2000 to 2015.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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Downs, who had two sisters, was the son of Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985) of Alexandria who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature and was a confidant of [[Governor]]s [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] and [[John J. McKeithen]]. His mother, the former Alice Daigre (pronounced 'Dage'), subsequently Alice Downs and then Alice Thomas (1914-1994), was a sister of the Alexandria consulting engineer Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr.<ref name=jamdowns/> (1915-1981). Sammy Downs is interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]].<ref>''[[Alexandria Town Talk]],'' May 15, 1985.</ref> Alice Daigre Downs Thomas, who died nine years after the passing of her first husband, from whom she was divorced, is interred at the Henderson James Cemetery in rural Hot Wells in Rapides Parish, where Jam Downs also rests.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk,'' August 22, 1994.</ref><br />
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Downs' uncle, [[J. Earl Downs]], was the public safety commissioner prior to 1963 in [[Shreveport]], where he served alongside [[Mayor]]s [[James C, Gardner]] and [[Clyde Fant]].<ref>[[Elliott Stonecipher]], "Shreveport History: In Support of the Spring Street Museum," February 4, 2012.</ref> He was unseated in the 1962 Democratic primary by George Wendell D'Artois, Sr. (1925-1977).<br />
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==Legal career==<br />
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Like his father, Downs is a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] and a graduate of the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]]. Before his election as DA, Jam Downs had been an assistant district attorney. He is known for his interest in conservation, hunting, and enforcement of game laws. He was born in [[rural]] Cheneyville in south Rapides Parish but resides with his wife, the former Maureen Stewart, in a restored farmhouse nea Lecompte, also in Rapides Parish.<ref name=jamdowns>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222062258/http://www.lwaa.org/pdf/LGW_spring_2005%204.pdf|author=Rick Markway|title="The Prosecutor: District Attorney James Crawford 'Jam' Downs" |publisher=Lwaa.org |accessdate=June 27, 2013}}</ref><br />
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"Jam" Downs is unrelated to the late John Harden Barnett Downs, known as Johnny Downs, a five-term member of the Alexandria City Council and the namesake of the Johnny Downs Sports Complex at 271 Vandenburg Drive in Alexandria.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://otbelgard.com/pignut/pages/genealogy/f983.html|title=John Harden Barnett Downs|publisher=otbelgard.com|accessdate=July 5, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://plus.google.com/106880624859852578694/about?gl=us&hl=en|title=Johnny Downs Sports Complex|publisher=plus.google.com|accessdate=July 5, 2013; no longer on-line.}}</ref><br />
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Three candidates ran in the [[primary]] held on November 4, 2014, to choose a successor to Downs, who customarily ran without an opponent. One was then state Representative [[Chris Hazel]], a [[Republican Party|Republican]] from Ball, Louisiana, and a former assistant DA under Downs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140429/NEWS01/304290022/Boyce-businessman-Grant-announces-run-Congress-Hazel-won-t-run-seat|author=Jeff Matthews|title=Boyce businessman Grant announces run for Congress; Hazel won't run for [U.S. House] seat|date=April 28, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref> Democrat [[Chris Roy, Jr.|Christopher J. Roy, Jr.]], a Democratic former state representative and a brother of Jacques Roy, the former mayor of Alexandria, also sought the position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140219/NEWS01/140219001/Chris-Roy-Jr-run-Rapides-Parish-district-attorney|title=Chris Roy Jr. to run for Rapides Parish district attorney, February 19, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref> <br />
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However, the winner of the race to succeed Downs was Phillip Terrell, Jr., a former city judge in Pineville with decades of legal experience.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20140404/NEWS01/140404003/Phillip-Terrell-former-Pineville-judge-enters-race-Rapides-Parish-district-attorney|title=Phillip Terrell, former Pineville judge, enters race for Rapides Parish district attorney, April 4, 2014|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=April 29, 2014; no longer on-line.}}</ref>Terrell defeated Hazel in a close runoff election on December 6 and succeeded Downs in January 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/12062014/12062014_40.html|title=Runoff election returns, December 6, 2014|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref> In 2018, Hazel won a special election for a judgeship on the 9th Judicial District Court.<br />
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In his private time, Downs hunted and scouted in the forest, listened to music, and spent time with his five children and eleven grandchildren at his home, Pegram House in Lecompte, which he and his wife Maureen subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For this effort, the Downses received the 2008 "Preservationists of the Year" award from the Historical Association of Central Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetowntalk.com/obituaries/plou1558202|title=James Crawford "Jam" Downs obituary|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=September 8, 2026|accessdate=September 9, 2026}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Downs, Jam}}<br />
[[Category:Louisiana People]]<br />
[[Category:Attorneys]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Democrats]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Jimmie_Davis&diff=2204194Jimmie Davis2026-09-08T19:23:33Z<p>BHathorn2: /* See also */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name=James Houston "Jimmie" Davis<br />
|image=Singer and Governor Jimmie Davis.jpg <br />
|office=47th [[Governor]] of [[Louisiana]]<br />
|term_start=May 9, 1944<br />
|term_end=May 11, 1948<br />
|predecessor=[[Sam Houston Jones]]<br />
|successor=[[Earl Long]]<br />
|term_start2=May 10, 1960<br />
|term_end2=May 12, 1964<br />
|predecessor2=Earl Long<br />
|successor2=[[John J. McKeithen]]<br />
|office3=Louisiana Public Service Commissioner<br />
|term_start3=January 1, 1943<br />
|term_end3=1945<br />
|preceded3=[[John Sparks Patton]]<br />
|birth_date=September 11, 1899<br />
|birth_place=Jackson Parish, Louisiana<br />
|death_date=November 5, 2000 (aged 101)<br />
|death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana<br />
|resting_place=Jimmie Davis Tabernacle Cemetery near Jonesboro, Louisiana<br />
|spouse=(1) Alvern Adams Davis (died 1967)<br><br />
(2) [[Anna Carter Gordon Davis]] (married 1969-2000, his death)<br />
|children=James William "Jim" Davis (1944-2012)<br><br />
Stepchildren<br><br />
William and Greg Gordon<br><br />
Vicki Gordon Owens <br />
|occupation=Singer, songwriter, former educator, politician<br />
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]<br />
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]<br />
|alma_mater=[[Louisiana College]]<br>[[Louisiana State University]]<br />
}}<br />
'''James Houston Davis''', known as '''Jimmie Davis''' (September 11, 1899 &ndash; November 5, 2000), was a famous gospel and popular music singer who served two non-consecutive terms as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[governor]] of his native [[Louisiana]], 1944 to 1948 and 1960 to 1964.<br />
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Davis has the distinction of having been succeeded and preceded as governor by his intra-party rival, [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], brother of [[Huey Long|Huey Pierce Long, Jr.]] His famous song, "You Are My Sunshine," became associated with his political career as well. He was often called the "peace and harmony" candidate for his low-key demeanor and as a spokesman for the [[anti-Long]] faction. Though he was a segregationist, Davis in the fall of 1960 was the governor when the first racial integration of public schools occurred in Louisiana at two elementary schools in the 9th Ward of [[New Orleans]]. In his second race for governor in 1959 and 1960, Davis defeated in a runoff [[Chep Morrison|deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr.]], the [[mayor]] of New Orleans from 1946 to 1961.<br />
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Davis was born in poverty in Quitman near Jonesboro in Jackson Parish in north Louisiana. He is interred beside his first wife, the former Alverna Adams, at the Jimmie Davis Tabernacle Cemetery east of Jonesboro in Jackson Parish. His son, James William "Jim" Davis (1944-2012), was a farmer from Newellton in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, where the former governor owned considerable property. <br />
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One of Davis' nieces, Kitty D. Fannin, is married to former state Representative and state Senator [[James R. Fannin]] of District 35.<br />
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In May 2021, an historical marker devoted to Davis was placed on the Louisiana College campus, where his legacy remains held in high esteem.<ref name=lcd>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2021/05/07/marker-honors-late-governor-lc-alum-who-penned-you-my-sunshine/4937792001/|title=Historical marker honors late governor, Louisiana College alum who penned 'You Are My Sunshine'|author=Melinda Martinez|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|date May 7, 2021|accessdate=May 9, 2021}}</ref>i<br />
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In his later years, Davis maintained a close friendship with former Louisiana Insurance Commissioner [[James H. "Jim" Brown]], originally from Ferriday in Concordia Parish.<ref name=lcd/><br />
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==Reference==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Allen "Puddler" Harris]]<br />
*[[Delta Music Museum]]<br />
*[[Monroe Dodd]]<br />
*[[James A. Noe]]<br />
*[[John Sparks Patton]]<br />
*[[William Rainach]]<br />
*[[Chep Morrison]]<br />
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[[Category:Male Singers]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
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[[Category:Democrats]]<br />
[[Category:Democratic Governors]]<br />
[[Category:Former Governors]]<br />
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]<br />
[[Category:Inductees of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Jimmie_Davis&diff=2204193Jimmie Davis2026-09-08T19:23:15Z<p>BHathorn2: /* See also */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name=James Houston "Jimmie" Davis<br />
|image=Singer and Governor Jimmie Davis.jpg <br />
|office=47th [[Governor]] of [[Louisiana]]<br />
|term_start=May 9, 1944<br />
|term_end=May 11, 1948<br />
|predecessor=[[Sam Houston Jones]]<br />
|successor=[[Earl Long]]<br />
|term_start2=May 10, 1960<br />
|term_end2=May 12, 1964<br />
|predecessor2=Earl Long<br />
|successor2=[[John J. McKeithen]]<br />
|office3=Louisiana Public Service Commissioner<br />
|term_start3=January 1, 1943<br />
|term_end3=1945<br />
|preceded3=[[John Sparks Patton]]<br />
|birth_date=September 11, 1899<br />
|birth_place=Jackson Parish, Louisiana<br />
|death_date=November 5, 2000 (aged 101)<br />
|death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana<br />
|resting_place=Jimmie Davis Tabernacle Cemetery near Jonesboro, Louisiana<br />
|spouse=(1) Alvern Adams Davis (died 1967)<br><br />
(2) [[Anna Carter Gordon Davis]] (married 1969-2000, his death)<br />
|children=James William "Jim" Davis (1944-2012)<br><br />
Stepchildren<br><br />
William and Greg Gordon<br><br />
Vicki Gordon Owens <br />
|occupation=Singer, songwriter, former educator, politician<br />
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]<br />
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]<br />
|alma_mater=[[Louisiana College]]<br>[[Louisiana State University]]<br />
}}<br />
'''James Houston Davis''', known as '''Jimmie Davis''' (September 11, 1899 &ndash; November 5, 2000), was a famous gospel and popular music singer who served two non-consecutive terms as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[governor]] of his native [[Louisiana]], 1944 to 1948 and 1960 to 1964.<br />
<br />
Davis has the distinction of having been succeeded and preceded as governor by his intra-party rival, [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], brother of [[Huey Long|Huey Pierce Long, Jr.]] His famous song, "You Are My Sunshine," became associated with his political career as well. He was often called the "peace and harmony" candidate for his low-key demeanor and as a spokesman for the [[anti-Long]] faction. Though he was a segregationist, Davis in the fall of 1960 was the governor when the first racial integration of public schools occurred in Louisiana at two elementary schools in the 9th Ward of [[New Orleans]]. In his second race for governor in 1959 and 1960, Davis defeated in a runoff [[Chep Morrison|deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr.]], the [[mayor]] of New Orleans from 1946 to 1961.<br />
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Davis was born in poverty in Quitman near Jonesboro in Jackson Parish in north Louisiana. He is interred beside his first wife, the former Alverna Adams, at the Jimmie Davis Tabernacle Cemetery east of Jonesboro in Jackson Parish. His son, James William "Jim" Davis (1944-2012), was a farmer from Newellton in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, where the former governor owned considerable property. <br />
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One of Davis' nieces, Kitty D. Fannin, is married to former state Representative and state Senator [[James R. Fannin]] of District 35.<br />
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In May 2021, an historical marker devoted to Davis was placed on the Louisiana College campus, where his legacy remains held in high esteem.<ref name=lcd>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2021/05/07/marker-honors-late-governor-lc-alum-who-penned-you-my-sunshine/4937792001/|title=Historical marker honors late governor, Louisiana College alum who penned 'You Are My Sunshine'|author=Melinda Martinez|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|date May 7, 2021|accessdate=May 9, 2021}}</ref>i<br />
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In his later years, Davis maintained a close friendship with former Louisiana Insurance Commissioner [[James H. "Jim" Brown]], originally from Ferriday in Concordia Parish.<ref name=lcd/><br />
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==Reference==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Allen "Puddler" Harris]]<br />
*[[Delta Music Museum]]<br />
*[[Monroe Dodd]]<br />
*[[James A. Noe]]<br />
*[[John Sparks Patton]]<br />
*[[William Rainach]]<br />
*[[deLesseps Morrison]]<br />
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]<br />
[[Category:Democrats]]<br />
[[Category:Democratic Governors]]<br />
[[Category:Former Governors]]<br />
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]<br />
[[Category:Inductees of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Charles_A._Marvin&diff=2203319Charles A. Marvin2026-09-03T11:06:59Z<p>BHathorn2: /* Political and legal career */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=Charles Allen "Corky" Marvin<br />
| image=Charles A. Marvin of LA.jpg<br />
| office=District Attorney of Bossier and Webster parishes, [[Louisiana]]<br />
| term_start =November 1971<br />
| term_end=July 1, 1975<br />
| preceded=John Bailey Benton, Jr.<br />
| succeeded=Henry Newton Brown, Jr.<br />
| office2 = Judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal<br />
| term_start2 =July 1, 1975<br />
| term_end2=1999<br />
| preceded2=[[H. Welborn Ayres]]<br />
| succeeded2=<br />
|office3=Chief Judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal<br />
|term_start3=1990<br />
|term_end3=1999<br />
| constituency2 =Bienville, Bossier, Caldwell, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Union, Webster, and Winn parishes<br />
| birth_date=July 18, 1929<br />
| birth_place=Jonesville, Catahoula Parish<br />
| death_date=April 27, 2003 (aged 73)<br />
| death_place=<br />
| death_cause=[[Cancer]]<br />
| residence=[[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], Webster Parish<br />
| resting_place=Gardens of Memory Cemetery in Minden<br />
| occupation]]; [[Judge]]<br />
| spouse=Rebecca Campbell Marvin (married 1956-2003, his death) (died 2026)<br />
| children =Melissa Marvin Brown<br><br />
Michele Marvin Simoneaux<br><br />
[[Schuyler Marvin|John Schuyler Marvin]]<br><br />
Mary Margaret Marvin Johnson<br />
| relations=Foster Campbell (wife's cousin)<br />
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana Tech University]]<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center<br />
| religion=[[United Methodist]]<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]<br />
| branch=[[United States Air Force]]<br />
| battles=[[Korean War]]}}<br />
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'''Charles Allen Marvin''', known also as '''Corky Marvin''' (July 18, 1929 &ndash; April 27, 2003),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Marvin&GSfn=Charles&GSmn=A&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1168&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=91162259&df=all&|title=Charles A. "Corky" Marvin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 8, 2022}}</ref> was a district attorney and a state circuit court [[judge]] in North [[Louisiana]] from 1971 until his retirement in 1999.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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Marvin was born to Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler L. Marvin in Jonesville in Catahoula Parish in northeastern [[Louisiana]]. He studied [[journalism]] at [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], where he was the outstanding graduate in his field and an editor of the student newspaper, ''The Tech Talk.'' He was later involved in fund-raising drives for Louisiana Tech.<ref>"Marvin and Moore Will Head Local Louisiana Tech Fund Drive," ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],', May 5, 1969, p. 3.</ref> Marvin then worked for a year as editor of the weekly newspaper ''The Delhi Dispatch'' in Delhi in Richland Parish], east of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]]. After service in the [[United States Air Force]] during the [[Korean War]],<ref name=mpressherald>"LSU Law School recognizes Judge C.A. Marvin", ''Minden Press-Herald,'' June 5, 1990, p. 10.</ref><br />
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Marvin attended the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]], from which he graduated after three years of study in 1957. In 1989, Louisiana Tech named him a "Distinguished Alumnus".<ref name=obit/> In 1962, Marvin became an original board member of the Louisiana Tech Foundation, along with another Minden attorney, Luther Moore, and later Caddo Parish [[Sheriff]] [[Donald E. Hathaway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latech.edu/administration/policies-and-procedures/3101.php|title=Policy 3101 - Introduction, Foundation Programs and Operations, and Future|date=August 26, 2000|publisher=latech.edu|accessdate=June 23, 2014}}</ref> In 1990, the LSU Law Center named Marvin an honorary member of the Order of the Coif and inducted him into its hall of fame.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogybuff.com/la/la-webster-obits5.htm|title=Charles Marvin|publisher=genealogybuff.com|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><ref name=mpressherald/><br />
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In 1956, Marvin married the former Rebecca Campbell (September 14, 1935 &ndash; August 30, 2026), an elementary school teacher, of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] and began his practice of law there with the firm Campbell, Campbell and Marvin, later Campbell, Campbell, Marvin, and Johnson. The first "Campbell" in the firm was John T. Campbell (1903-1993), Rebecca's father, who was also a former clerk of the Louisiana State Senate].<ref>"Local attorney to be honored," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' March 20, 1992, p. 1.</ref> The second "Campbell," Cecil P. Campbell (1909-1996), was her uncle. One of her cousins is former state senator and veteran Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Lonnie Campbell, Jr., a former candidate for governor and the U.S. Senate in 2016. During his days as a practicing attorney, Charles Marvin was president of the Minden [[Chamber of Commerce]], a member of the local [[Selective Service]] board, and the commander of the Wiley-Pevy American Legion post.<ref>"Marvin Elected Commander of American Legion Post," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' July 12, 1967, p. 1.</ref> He was also affiliated with the veterans organization the Forty and Eight.<ref name=obit/><br />
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==Political and legal career==<br />
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A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Marvin in 1966 ran unsuccessfully for the position of Minden and Ward I city judge. He was handily defeated by the incumbent [[Cecil C. Lowe]], who was elected in 1976 as a member of the 26th Judicial District Court, which includes Bossier and Webster parishes. Lowe received 2,952 votes to Marvin's 1,530; Marvin carried only one precinct in that race.<ref>''The Minden Press-Herald,'' August 15, 1966, pp. 1-2.</ref>The city judgeship was subsequently held by John Cecil Campbell, Mrs. Marvin's cousin.<br />
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In November 1967, Marvin withdrew from a runoff election for the Webster Parish Democratic Executive Committee, when he finished sixth among ten candidates for five places on the board. He deferred to the fifth-place candidate, B. James Bryan of Springhill, in northern Webster Parish.<ref>"Marvin Withdraws from Runoff Race with Bryan," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' November 16, 1967, p. 1.</ref><br />
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In November 1971, Marvin was elected to succeed John Bailey Benton, Jr. (1924-2009) of Minden, the interim DA of the 26th Judicial District. The position had opened when Louis H. Padgett, Jr. (1913-1980), resigned to run successfully for the state district court.<ref name=mphapril>"Marvin seeks judgeship; election se,'' ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' April 9, 1975, p. 1.</ref> Benton won in Bossier Parish by fifty-six votes but was overwhelmed by Marvin's majority in Webster Parish.<ref>"Marvin Defeats Benton," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' November 8, 1971, p. 1.</ref> Marvin then won the full term in the position in 1972.<ref name=mphapril/><br />
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In 1973, DA Marvin pursued originally fourteen counts of public bribery against [[George Nattin|George Nattin, Sr.]], who stepped down as [[mayor]] of [[Bossier City]] after twelve years in office, and Nattin's son, [[George L. Nattin, Jr.]] Former Mayor Nattin was subsequently acquitted of the charges.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrt.com/import/article_ab13b936-ac7a-5805-af4f-1fab64358698.html|title=Former Bossier City mayor dead at 83|publisher=''The Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram''|date=April 26, 2002|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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In 1975, Marvin resigned as DA upon his election to the Second Circuit Court of Appeal]], based in [[Shreveport]]. Marvin defeated a fellow Democrat, [[Fred W. Jones, Jr.]], a native of Rayville in Richland Parish and a then district judge in Ruston.<ref>"Jones will seek judgeship," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' April 2, 1975, p. 1.</ref> In the nine-parish race, Marvin polled 16,106 votes; Jones, 14,521. There was no [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate. Marvin succeeded the retiring Judge [[H. Welborn Ayres]], a native of [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]], who retired at the mandatory age of seventy-five.<ref>''The Minden Press-Herald,'' May 15, 1975, p. 1.</ref><br />
Jones was subsequently elected to the circuit court in 1980 and became a colleague of Judge Marvin for the next decade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasc.org/community_outreach/in_memoriam/jones_fred.asp|title=In Memoriam: Retired Judge Fred W. Jones, Jr.|publisher=lasc.org|accessdate=June 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Thereafter, Marvin was elected to full ten-year terms on the court in 1978 and 1988, both times without opposition. From 1990 until his retirement in 1999, Marvin was the chief judge of the circuit court. He was frequently invited to serve as a pro tempore justice for the Louisiana Supreme Court. He was also a president of the Council of Chief Judges of the United States. He was the author of numerous law review articles and served as an adjunct professor at the LSU Law Center, the historically black rambling State University, and Bossier Parish Community College. For six terms, he was president of the Webster Parish Bar Association and a member of the National Trial Lawyers Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasc.org/community_outreach/in_memoriam/marvin_corky.asp|title=In Memoriam: Retired Second Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Charles A. "Corky" Marvin|publisher=lasc.org|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><br />
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Along with bail bondsman [[Angelo Roppolo]] and others, Judge Marvin one of the founding members of the Shreveport Red Mass Society, which holds an annual service for lawyers, judges, and law enforcement personnel to highlight the connection between faith in [[God]] and the rule of law. The Red Mass is held at Holy Trinity [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] Church in downtown Shreveport.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.judgescottcrichton.com/tributetoangeloroppolo|title=Beyond the City Limits: The Illustrious Life and Legacy of "Nickel Politician" Angelo Roppolo|date=July 9, 2012|publisher=judgescottcrichton.com|author=Scott Crichton|accessdate=November 2, 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life and legacy==<br />
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Judge Marvin was a trustee and Sunday School teacher at the Minden First [[United Methodist]] Church. He was also a trustee of the Louisiana Methodist Foundation and a member of the Masonic lodge and the Shriners.<ref name=obit/><br />
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There are four Marvin children. Melissa Brown (born 1958) is the wife of Gary Lamar Brown (born 1954), whose parents, Newton and Erlene Nealy Brown, were murdered in their home in Dixie Inn west of Minden on Christmas Eve, 1982, by Jimmy L. Glass (1962-1987) and Jimmy Charles Wingo (1952-1987), a native of Jackson County, [[Arkansas]], and a former Boy Scout.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54265863/jimmy-charles-wingo|title=Jimmy Charles Wingo|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 8, 2022}}</ref> Glass petitioned unsuccessfully to the [[United States Supreme Court]] on the premise that his pending 1987 execution was "cruel and unusual punishment."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141175716/jimmy-l-glass?msclkid=1815accecf0211ecab6f45936331165b|title=Jimmy L. Glass|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 8, 2022}}</ref>The murders occurred only a few months after Melissa and Gary Brown were wed in Minden. The tragic case attracted national attention because of an upswing in executions in Louisiana at the time and a debate over the constitutionality of the [[death penalty]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/16/us/louisiana-executes-2d-man-in-slaying-of-couple.html|title=Louisiana Executes Second Man in Slaying of Couple, June 16, 1987|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eunicetoday.com/brown-fusilier-announce-engagement|title=Brown, Fusilier announce engagement, May 3, 2013|publisher=''Eunice Today''|accessdate=November 26, 2013}}</ref><br />
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Second daughter Michele Simoneaux and her husband, Rodney J. Simoneaux (both born 1959), reside inBelle Rose in Assumption Parish in south Louisiana. Son [[Schuyler Marvin|John Schuyler Marvin]] is the husband of the former Jodi Lane Comeaux. The youngest Marvin daughter, Mary Margaret, is the wife of Bruce Johnson. There were twelve grandchildren at the time of the judge's death.<ref name=obit/><br />
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Schuyler Marvin is the current DA of Bossier and Webster parishes, having first been elected in November 2002, some five months before his father's death. He was unopposed for a second six-year term in 2008. The junior Marvin is a Democrat-turned-Republican.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.26thda.org/|title=J. Schuyler Marvin, District Attorney|publisher=26thda.org|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><br />
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Judge Marvin died of [[cancer]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nakedownership.com/archives/cat_shreveport.html|title=Former 2nd Circuit Chief Judge Dies at 73|date=April 28, 2003|publisher=nakedownership.com|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref> at the age of seventy-three. Services were held on April 29, 2003, at First United Methodist Church in Minden. He is interred there at Gardens of Memory Cemetery.<ref name=obit/><br />
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In 2015, Marvin was posthumously inducted into the [[Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]] in Winnfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9728:corky-marvin-elected-to-hall-of-fame&catid=34:local-news&Itemid=69l=|title='Corky' Marvin elected to hall of fame|publisher=''The Minden Press-Herald''|accessdate=June 25, 2014}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Korean War]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Charles_A._Marvin&diff=2203318Charles A. Marvin2026-09-03T11:06:13Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=Charles Allen "Corky" Marvin<br />
| image=Charles A. Marvin of LA.jpg<br />
| office=District Attorney of Bossier and Webster parishes, [[Louisiana]]<br />
| term_start =November 1971<br />
| term_end=July 1, 1975<br />
| preceded=John Bailey Benton, Jr.<br />
| succeeded=Henry Newton Brown, Jr.<br />
| office2 = Judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal<br />
| term_start2 =July 1, 1975<br />
| term_end2=1999<br />
| preceded2=[[H. Welborn Ayres]]<br />
| succeeded2=<br />
|office3=Chief Judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal<br />
|term_start3=1990<br />
|term_end3=1999<br />
| constituency2 =Bienville, Bossier, Caldwell, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Union, Webster, and Winn parishes<br />
| birth_date=July 18, 1929<br />
| birth_place=Jonesville, Catahoula Parish<br />
| death_date=April 27, 2003 (aged 73)<br />
| death_place=<br />
| death_cause=[[Cancer]]<br />
| residence=[[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], Webster Parish<br />
| resting_place=Gardens of Memory Cemetery in Minden<br />
| occupation]]; [[Judge]]<br />
| spouse=Rebecca Campbell Marvin (married 1956-2003, his death) (died 2026)<br />
| children =Melissa Marvin Brown<br><br />
Michele Marvin Simoneaux<br><br />
[[Schuyler Marvin|John Schuyler Marvin]]<br><br />
Mary Margaret Marvin Johnson<br />
| relations=Foster Campbell (wife's cousin)<br />
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana Tech University]]<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center<br />
| religion=[[United Methodist]]<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]<br />
| branch=[[United States Air Force]]<br />
| battles=[[Korean War]]}}<br />
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'''Charles Allen Marvin''', known also as '''Corky Marvin''' (July 18, 1929 &ndash; April 27, 2003),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Marvin&GSfn=Charles&GSmn=A&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1168&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=91162259&df=all&|title=Charles A. "Corky" Marvin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 8, 2022}}</ref> was a district attorney and a state circuit court [[judge]] in North [[Louisiana]] from 1971 until his retirement in 1999.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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Marvin was born to Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler L. Marvin in Jonesville in Catahoula Parish in northeastern [[Louisiana]]. He studied [[journalism]] at [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], where he was the outstanding graduate in his field and an editor of the student newspaper, ''The Tech Talk.'' He was later involved in fund-raising drives for Louisiana Tech.<ref>"Marvin and Moore Will Head Local Louisiana Tech Fund Drive," ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],', May 5, 1969, p. 3.</ref> Marvin then worked for a year as editor of the weekly newspaper ''The Delhi Dispatch'' in Delhi in Richland Parish], east of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]]. After service in the [[United States Air Force]] during the [[Korean War]],<ref name=mpressherald>"LSU Law School recognizes Judge C.A. Marvin", ''Minden Press-Herald,'' June 5, 1990, p. 10.</ref><br />
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Marvin attended the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]], from which he graduated after three years of study in 1957. In 1989, Louisiana Tech named him a "Distinguished Alumnus".<ref name=obit/> In 1962, Marvin became an original board member of the Louisiana Tech Foundation, along with another Minden attorney, Luther Moore, and later Caddo Parish [[Sheriff]] [[Donald E. Hathaway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latech.edu/administration/policies-and-procedures/3101.php|title=Policy 3101 - Introduction, Foundation Programs and Operations, and Future|date=August 26, 2000|publisher=latech.edu|accessdate=June 23, 2014}}</ref> In 1990, the LSU Law Center named Marvin an honorary member of the Order of the Coif and inducted him into its hall of fame.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogybuff.com/la/la-webster-obits5.htm|title=Charles Marvin|publisher=genealogybuff.com|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><ref name=mpressherald/><br />
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In 1956, Marvin married the former Rebecca Campbell (September 14, 1935 &ndash; August 30, 2026), an elementary school teacher, of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] and began his practice of law there with the firm Campbell, Campbell and Marvin, later Campbell, Campbell, Marvin, and Johnson. The first "Campbell" in the firm was John T. Campbell (1903-1993), Rebecca's father, who was also a former clerk of the Louisiana State Senate].<ref>"Local attorney to be honored," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' March 20, 1992, p. 1.</ref> The second "Campbell," Cecil P. Campbell (1909-1996), was her uncle. One of her cousins is former state senator and veteran Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Lonnie Campbell, Jr., a former candidate for governor and the U.S. Senate in 2016. During his days as a practicing attorney, Charles Marvin was president of the Minden [[Chamber of Commerce]], a member of the local [[Selective Service]] board, and the commander of the Wiley-Pevy American Legion post.<ref>"Marvin Elected Commander of American Legion Post," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' July 12, 1967, p. 1.</ref> He was also affiliated with the veterans organization the Forty and Eight.<ref name=obit/><br />
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==Political and legal career==<br />
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A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Marvin in 1966 ran unsuccessfully for the position of Minden and Ward I city judge. He was handily defeated by the incumbent [[Cecil C. Lowe]], who was elected in 1976 as a member of the 26th Judicial District Court, which includes Bossier and Webster parishes. Lowe received 2,952 votes to Marvin's 1,530; Marvin carried only one precinct in that race.<ref>''The Minden Press-Herald,'' August 15, 1966, pp. 1-2.</ref>The city judgeship was subsequently held by John Cecil Campbell, Mrs. Marvin's cousin.<br />
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In November 1967, Marvin withdrew from a runoff election for the Webster Parish Democratic Executive Committee, when he finished sixth among ten candidates for five places on the board. He deferred to the fifth-place candidate, B. James Bryan of Springhill, in northern Webster Parish.<ref>"Marvin Withdraws from Runoff Race with Bryan," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' November 16, 1967, p. 1.</ref><br />
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In November 1971, Marvin was elected to succeed John Bailey Benton, Jr. (1924-2009) of Minden, the interim DA of the 26th Judicial District. The position had opened when Louis H. Padgett, Jr. (1913-1980), resigned to run successfully for the state district court.<ref name=mphapril>"Marvin seeks judgeship; election se,'' ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' April 9, 1975, p. 1.</ref> Benton won in Bossier Parish by fifty-six votes but was overwhelmed by Marvin's majority in Webster Parish.<ref>"Marvin Defeats Benton," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' November 8, 1971, p. 1.</ref> Marvin then won the full term in the position in 1972.<ref name=mphapril/><br />
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In 1973, DA Marvin pursued originally fourteen counts of public bribery against [[George Nattin|George Nattin, Sr.]], who stepped down as [[mayor]] of [[Bossier City]] after twelve years in office, and Nattin's son, [[George Nattin, Jr.]] Former Mayor Nattin was subsequently acquitted of the charges.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrt.com/import/article_ab13b936-ac7a-5805-af4f-1fab64358698.html|title=Former Bossier City mayor dead at 83|publisher=''The Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram''|date=April 26, 2002|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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In 1975, Marvin resigned as DA upon his election to the Second Circuit Court of Appeal]], based in [[Shreveport]]. Marvin defeated a fellow Democrat, [[Fred W. Jones, Jr.]], a native of Rayville in Richland Parish and a then district judge in Ruston.<ref>"Jones will seek judgeship," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' April 2, 1975, p. 1.</ref> In the nine-parish race, Marvin polled 16,106 votes; Jones, 14,521. There was no [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate. Marvin succeeded the retiring Judge [[H. Welborn Ayres]], a native of [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]], who retired at the mandatory age of seventy-five.<ref>''The Minden Press-Herald,'' May 15, 1975, p. 1.</ref><br />
Jones was subsequently elected to the circuit court in 1980 and became a colleague of Judge Marvin for the next decade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasc.org/community_outreach/in_memoriam/jones_fred.asp|title=In Memoriam: Retired Judge Fred W. Jones, Jr.|publisher=lasc.org|accessdate=June 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Thereafter, Marvin was elected to full ten-year terms on the court in 1978 and 1988, both times without opposition. From 1990 until his retirement in 1999, Marvin was the chief judge of the circuit court. He was frequently invited to serve as a pro tempore justice for the Louisiana Supreme Court. He was also a president of the Council of Chief Judges of the United States. He was the author of numerous law review articles and served as an adjunct professor at the LSU Law Center, the historically black rambling State University, and Bossier Parish Community College. For six terms, he was president of the Webster Parish Bar Association and a member of the National Trial Lawyers Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasc.org/community_outreach/in_memoriam/marvin_corky.asp|title=In Memoriam: Retired Second Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Charles A. "Corky" Marvin|publisher=lasc.org|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><br />
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Along with bail bondsman [[Angelo Roppolo]] and others, Judge Marvin one of the founding members of the Shreveport Red Mass Society, which holds an annual service for lawyers, judges, and law enforcement personnel to highlight the connection between faith in [[God]] and the rule of law. The Red Mass is held at Holy Trinity [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] Church in downtown Shreveport.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.judgescottcrichton.com/tributetoangeloroppolo|title=Beyond the City Limits: The Illustrious Life and Legacy of "Nickel Politician" Angelo Roppolo|date=July 9, 2012|publisher=judgescottcrichton.com|author=Scott Crichton|accessdate=November 2, 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life and legacy==<br />
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Judge Marvin was a trustee and Sunday School teacher at the Minden First [[United Methodist]] Church. He was also a trustee of the Louisiana Methodist Foundation and a member of the Masonic lodge and the Shriners.<ref name=obit/><br />
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There are four Marvin children. Melissa Brown (born 1958) is the wife of Gary Lamar Brown (born 1954), whose parents, Newton and Erlene Nealy Brown, were murdered in their home in Dixie Inn west of Minden on Christmas Eve, 1982, by Jimmy L. Glass (1962-1987) and Jimmy Charles Wingo (1952-1987), a native of Jackson County, [[Arkansas]], and a former Boy Scout.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54265863/jimmy-charles-wingo|title=Jimmy Charles Wingo|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 8, 2022}}</ref> Glass petitioned unsuccessfully to the [[United States Supreme Court]] on the premise that his pending 1987 execution was "cruel and unusual punishment."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141175716/jimmy-l-glass?msclkid=1815accecf0211ecab6f45936331165b|title=Jimmy L. Glass|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 8, 2022}}</ref>The murders occurred only a few months after Melissa and Gary Brown were wed in Minden. The tragic case attracted national attention because of an upswing in executions in Louisiana at the time and a debate over the constitutionality of the [[death penalty]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/16/us/louisiana-executes-2d-man-in-slaying-of-couple.html|title=Louisiana Executes Second Man in Slaying of Couple, June 16, 1987|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eunicetoday.com/brown-fusilier-announce-engagement|title=Brown, Fusilier announce engagement, May 3, 2013|publisher=''Eunice Today''|accessdate=November 26, 2013}}</ref><br />
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Second daughter Michele Simoneaux and her husband, Rodney J. Simoneaux (both born 1959), reside inBelle Rose in Assumption Parish in south Louisiana. Son [[Schuyler Marvin|John Schuyler Marvin]] is the husband of the former Jodi Lane Comeaux. The youngest Marvin daughter, Mary Margaret, is the wife of Bruce Johnson. There were twelve grandchildren at the time of the judge's death.<ref name=obit/><br />
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Schuyler Marvin is the current DA of Bossier and Webster parishes, having first been elected in November 2002, some five months before his father's death. He was unopposed for a second six-year term in 2008. The junior Marvin is a Democrat-turned-Republican.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.26thda.org/|title=J. Schuyler Marvin, District Attorney|publisher=26thda.org|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><br />
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Judge Marvin died of [[cancer]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nakedownership.com/archives/cat_shreveport.html|title=Former 2nd Circuit Chief Judge Dies at 73|date=April 28, 2003|publisher=nakedownership.com|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref> at the age of seventy-three. Services were held on April 29, 2003, at First United Methodist Church in Minden. He is interred there at Gardens of Memory Cemetery.<ref name=obit/><br />
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In 2015, Marvin was posthumously inducted into the [[Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]] in Winnfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9728:corky-marvin-elected-to-hall-of-fame&catid=34:local-news&Itemid=69l=|title='Corky' Marvin elected to hall of fame|publisher=''The Minden Press-Herald''|accessdate=June 25, 2014}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Journalists]]<br />
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[[Category:United Methodists]]<br />
[[Category:United States Air Force]]<br />
[[Category:Korean War]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Alan_Simpson&diff=2203210Alan Simpson2026-09-02T19:59:38Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=Alan Kooi Simpson<br />
| image=Alan Simpson of WY.jpg<br />
| office=[[United States Senator]]<br>for [[Wyoming]]<br />
| term_start=January 1, 1979<br />
| term_end=January 3, 1997<br />
| predecessor=[[Clifford Hansen]]<br />
| successor=[[Mike Enzi]]<br />
| office2=Senate Majority Whip<br />
| leader2=[[Bob Dole]]<br />
| term_start2=January 3, 1985<br />
| term_end2=January 3, 1987<br />
| predecessor2=[[Ted Stevens]]<br />
| successor2=[[Alan Cranston]]<br />
| office3=Senate Minority Whip<br />
| leader3=Bob Dole<br />
| term_start3=January 3, 1987<br />
| term_end3=January 3, 1995<br />
| predecessor3=Alan Cranston<br />
| successor3=Wendell Ford ([[Kentucky]])<br />
| office4=Co-Chairman with [[Erskine Bowles]] ([[North Carolina]]) of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform<br />
| term_start4=February 18, 2010<br />
| term_end4=December 1, 2010<br />
| office5=Wyoming State Representative for Park County<br />
| term_start5=January 1, 1965<br />
| term_end5=January1, 1977<br />
| birth_date=September 2, 1931<br />
| birth_place=[[Denver]], [[Colorado]]<br />
| death_date=March 14, 2025 (aged 93)<br />
| death_place=Cody, Wyoming<br />
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br />
| occupation=[[Attorney]]<br />
| religion=[[Episcopalian]]<br />
| spouse=Ann Schroll Simpson<br> (married 1954-2015, his death)<br> (She died in 2026.)<br />
| children=Colin M. Simpson<br> (former state representative)<br><br />
William Simpson<br><br />
Susan Simpson Gallagher<br />
| relations=[[Milward Simpson]] (father)<br>[[Peter K. Simpson]] (brother)<br />
| alma_mater=University of Wyoming at Laramie (BA and JD)<br />
| branch=[[United States Army]]<br />
| serviceyears=1954–1956<br />
| rank=Second [[Lieutenant]]<br />
| unit=5th Infantry Regiment<br><br />
2nd Armored Division}}<br />
<br />
'''Alan Kooi Simpson''' (September 2, 1931 &ndash; March 14, 2025) served [[Wyoming]] in the [[U.S. Senate]] from 1979 to 1997. Despite his connection to the [[Republican Party]], he is a [[liberal]] on social issues. He originally benefited from the [[conservative]] reputation of his father, [[Milward Simpson]], who served Wyoming in the U.S. Senate from 1962 to 1967, after having been governor of Wyoming from 1955 to 1959. Simpson has been an advocate of fiscally conservative positions and argued strongly for entitlement reform. However, on social issues, he supported [[abortion]] and [[same-sex marriage]]. Simpson is most known for the [[Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986|Simpson-Mazzoli Act]], which President [[Ronald Reagan]] signed into law. The measure granted amnesty to three million illegal aliens. He was a co-chairman of the Simpson/Bowles committee. Since leaving the Senate, Simpson has taught at his ''alma mater,'' the University of Wyoming at Laramie. <br />
<br />
Simpson's political leanings can be summed up in his own words:<br />
<br />
:'''''Any education that matters is "liberal." All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.'''''<br />
<br />
In the 2002 gubernatorial election, Simpson accused two [[primary]] candidates, [[Ray Hunkins]] of Wheatland and Bill Sniffin of Lander, of having lied about the record of [[Eli Bebout]], Simpson's choice for the party nomination. Simpson claimed that Hunkins and Sniffin had misrepresented Bebout's position on nuclear waste dumping and water rights: "These gents running for governor - I mean Ray Hunkins and Bill Sniffin - wouldn't seem to know the truth if it bit 'em on the fanny."<ref name=billings>{{cite web|url=http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/simpson-apologizes-to-hunkins/article_60ca4c80-ff54-50b5-b492-4e765674fe1d.html|title=Simpson apologizes to Hunkins|date=August 27, 2002|publisher=''Billings Gazette''|location=Billings, Montana|accessdate=April 19, 2016}}</ref> Simpson subsequently apologized to Hunkins.<ref name=billings/> Bebout won the nomination but was defeated in a close vote by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Dave Freudenthal in the [[general election]].<br />
<br />
In July 2022, Simpson cut a television commercial for liberal Republican U.S. Representative [[Liz Cheney]] and attacked former President [[Donald Trump]], who endorsed her primary challenger, the conservative [[Harriet Hageman]]. Simpson called Trump "a vicious animal" who "poisoned democracy." He declared the party of which he was a former assistant Senate leader had become "a cult" under the influence of Trump.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-vicious-animal-who-poisoned-democracy-ex-gop-sen-alan-simpson/ar-AAZFZz6?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=69876ea5f6a446ecae99ef70bdcfd75b|title=Trump "Vicious Animal" who "Poisoned Democracy|publisher=msn.com|accessdate=July 17, 2022}}</ref><br />
<br />
Simpson died at his home in Cody at the age of ninety-three in the spring of 2025. The next year his wife, the former Ann Schroll died.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
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[[Category:Attorneys]]<br />
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]<br />
[[Category:Libertarians]]<br />
[[Category:Fiscal Conservatives]]<br />
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]<br />
[[Category:Republicans]]<br />
[[Category:State Representatives]]<br />
[[Category:Episcopalians]]<br />
[[Category:United States Army]]<br />
[[Category:Immigration]]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=Alan Kooi Simpson<br />
| image=Alan Simpson of WY.jpg<br />
| office=[[United States Senator]]<br>for [[Wyoming]]<br />
| term_start=January 1, 1979<br />
| term_end=January 3, 1997<br />
| predecessor=[[Clifford Hansen]]<br />
| successor=[[Mike Enzi]]<br />
| office2=Senate Majority Whip<br />
| leader2=[[Bob Dole]]<br />
| term_start2=January 3, 1985<br />
| term_end2=January 3, 1987<br />
| predecessor2=[[Ted Stevens]]<br />
| successor2=[[Alan Cranston]]<br />
| office3=Senate Minority Whip<br />
| leader3=Bob Dole<br />
| term_start3=January 3, 1987<br />
| term_end3=January 3, 1995<br />
| predecessor3=Alan Cranston<br />
| successor3=Wendell Ford ([[Kentucky]])<br />
| office4=Co-Chairman with [[Erskine Bowles]] ([[North Carolina]]) of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform<br />
| term_start4=February 18, 2010<br />
| term_end4=December 1, 2010<br />
| office5=Wyoming State Representative for Park County<br />
| term_start5=January 1, 1965<br />
| term_end5=January1, 1977<br />
| birth_date=September 2, 1931<br />
| birth_place=[[Denver]], [[Colorado]]<br />
| death_date=March 14, 2025 (aged 93)<br />
| death_place=Cody, Wyoming<br />
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br />
| occupation=[[Attorney]]<br />
| religion=[[Episcopalian]]<br />
| spouse=Ann Schroll Simpson<br> (married 1954-2015, his death)<br> (She died in died 2026.)<br />
| children=Colin M. Simpson<br> (former state representative)<br><br />
William Simpson<br><br />
Susan Simpson Gallagher<br />
| relations=[[Milward Simpson]] (father)<br>[[Peter K. Simpson]] (brother)<br />
| alma_mater=University of Wyoming at Laramie (BA and JD)<br />
| branch=[[United States Army]]<br />
| serviceyears=1954–1956<br />
| rank=Second [[Lieutenant]]<br />
| unit=5th Infantry Regiment<br><br />
2nd Armored Division}}<br />
<br />
'''Alan Kooi Simpson''' (September 2, 1931 &ndash; March 14, 2025) served [[Wyoming]] in the [[U.S. Senate]] from 1979 to 1997. Despite his connection to the [[Republican Party]], he is a [[liberal]] on social issues. He originally benefited from the [[conservative]] reputation of his father, [[Milward Simpson]], who served Wyoming in the U.S. Senate from 1962 to 1967, after having been governor of Wyoming from 1955 to 1959. Simpson has been an advocate of fiscally conservative positions and argued strongly for entitlement reform. However, on social issues, he supported [[abortion]] and [[same-sex marriage]]. Simpson is most known for the [[Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986|Simpson-Mazzoli Act]], which President [[Ronald Reagan]] signed into law. The measure granted amnesty to three million illegal aliens. He was a co-chairman of the Simpson/Bowles committee. Since leaving the Senate, Simpson has taught at his ''alma mater,'' the University of Wyoming at Laramie. <br />
<br />
Simpson's political leanings can be summed up in his own words:<br />
<br />
:'''''Any education that matters is "liberal." All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.'''''<br />
<br />
In the 2002 gubernatorial election, Simpson accused two [[primary]] candidates, [[Ray Hunkins]] of Wheatland and Bill Sniffin of Lander, of having lied about the record of [[Eli Bebout]], Simpson's choice for the party nomination. Simpson claimed that Hunkins and Sniffin had misrepresented Bebout's position on nuclear waste dumping and water rights: "These gents running for governor - I mean Ray Hunkins and Bill Sniffin - wouldn't seem to know the truth if it bit 'em on the fanny."<ref name=billings>{{cite web|url=http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/simpson-apologizes-to-hunkins/article_60ca4c80-ff54-50b5-b492-4e765674fe1d.html|title=Simpson apologizes to Hunkins|date=August 27, 2002|publisher=''Billings Gazette''|location=Billings, Montana|accessdate=April 19, 2016}}</ref> Simpson subsequently apologized to Hunkins.<ref name=billings/> Bebout won the nomination but was defeated in a close vote by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Dave Freudenthal in the [[general election]].<br />
<br />
In July 2022, Simpson cut a television commercial for liberal Republican U.S. Representative [[Liz Cheney]] and attacked former President [[Donald Trump]], who endorsed her primary challenger, the conservative [[Harriet Hageman]]. Simpson called Trump "a vicious animal" who "poisoned democracy." He declared the party of which he was a former assistant Senate leader had become "a cult" under the influence of Trump.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-vicious-animal-who-poisoned-democracy-ex-gop-sen-alan-simpson/ar-AAZFZz6?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=69876ea5f6a446ecae99ef70bdcfd75b|title=Trump "Vicious Animal" who "Poisoned Democracy|publisher=msn.com|accessdate=July 17, 2022}}</ref><br />
<br />
Simpson died at his home in Cody at the age of ninety-three in the spring of 2025. The next year his wife, the former Ann Schroll died.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Simpson, Alan}}<br />
[[Category:Wyoming]]<br />
[[Category:Attorneys]]<br />
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]<br />
[[Category:Libertarians]]<br />
[[Category:Fiscal Conservatives]]<br />
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]<br />
[[Category:Republicans]]<br />
[[Category:State Representatives]]<br />
[[Category:Episcopalians]]<br />
[[Category:United States Army]]<br />
[[Category:Immigration]]<br />
[[Category:RINOs]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=The_Donna_Reed_Show&diff=2203208The Donna Reed Show2026-09-02T19:57:52Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>[[Image:Donna Reed.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Donna Reed starred in her own situation comedy on [[ABC]] [[television]] from 1958 to 1966.]]<br />
[[Image:Carl Betz.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Carl Betz was cast as Dr. Alex Stone on ''The Donna Reed Show.'']]<br />
[[Image:Paul Petersen.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Paul Petersen rocketed to fame as a child star in the role of Jeff Stone.]]<br />
[[Image:Shelley Fabares.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Shelley Fabares was the wife of actor Mike Farrell and the niece of actress Nanette Fabares.]]<br />
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'''''The Donna Reed Show''''', an [[ABC]] situation comedy which aired from 1958 to 1966, portrayed the life of an [[United States|American]] [[suburb]]an family. [[Iowa]] native Donna Reed (1921-1986), is cast in the series as Donna Stone, an unselfish and resourceful housewife and loving mother. <br />
<br />
The series also starred Carl Lawrence Betz (1921-1978) as Dr. Alex Stone, a pediatrician; Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (1944-2026) as Mary Stone, Paul Petersen (born 1945) as Jeff Stone, and Patty Petersen as Trisha. In the last three seasons, [[Hogan's Heroes|Bob Crane]] and [[Ann McCrea]] joined the cast as David and Midge Kelsey, the Stones' neighbors.<br />
<br />
Though the show espoused inherent [[conservative]] values, Donna Reed herself was a [[Hollywood]] [[liberal]].<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
[[Conservative values]]<br />
<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Donna Reed Show, The}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Television Shows]]<br />
[[Category:Comedy]]<br />
[[Category:Greatest Conservative TV Shows]]<br />
[[Category:1950s]]<br />
[[Category:1960s]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=File:Shelley_Fabares.jpg&diff=2203207File:Shelley Fabares.jpg2026-09-02T19:56:58Z<p>BHathorn2: Source:wikipedia
Category:Television Shows</p>
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<div>== Summary ==<br />
Source:wikipedia<br />
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[[Category:Television Shows]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=The_Donna_Reed_Show&diff=2203126The Donna Reed Show2026-09-02T11:13:51Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>[[Image:Donna Reed.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Donna Reed starred in her own situation comedy on [[ABC]] [[television]] from 1958 to 1966.]]<br />
[[Image:Carl Betz.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Carl Betz was cast as Dr. Alex Stone on ''The Donna Reed Show.'']]<br />
[[Image:Paul Petersen.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Paul Petersen rocketed to fame as a child star in the role of Jeff Stone.]]<br />
[[Image:Shelley Fabares.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Shelley Fabares was the wife of actor Mike Farrell and the niece of actress Nanette Fabares.]]<br />
'''''The Donna Reed Show''''', an [[ABC]] situation comedy which aired from 1958 to 1966, portrayed the life of an [[United States|American]] [[suburb]]an family. [[Iowa]] native Donna Reed (1921-1986), is cast in the series as Donna Stone, an unselfish and resourceful housewife and loving mother. <br />
<br />
The series also starred Carl Lawrence Betz (1921-1978) as Dr. Alex Stone, a pediatrician; Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (1944-2026) as Mary Stone, Paul Petersen (born 1945) as Jeff Stone, and Patty Petersen as Trisha. In the last three season, [[Hogan's Heroes|Bob Crane]] and [[Ann McCrea]] joined the cast as David and Midge Kelsey, the Stones' neighbors.<br />
<br />
Though the show espoused inherent [[conservative]] values, Donna Reed herself was a [[Hollywood]] [[liberal]].<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
[[Conservative values]]<br />
<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Donna Reed Show, The}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Television Shows]]<br />
[[Category:Comedy]]<br />
[[Category:Greatest Conservative TV Shows]]<br />
[[Category:1950s]]<br />
[[Category:1960s]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=The_Donna_Reed_Show&diff=2203125The Donna Reed Show2026-09-02T11:13:24Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>[[Image:Donna Reed.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Donna Reed starred in her own situation comedy on [[ABC]] [[television]] from 1958 to 1966.]]<br />
[[Image:Carl Betz.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Carl Betz was cast as Dr. Alex Stone on ''The Donna Reed Show.'']]<br />
[[Image:Paul Petersen.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Paul Petersen rocketed to fame as a child star in the role of Jeff Stone.]]<br />
[[Image:Shelley Fabares.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Shelley Fabares was the wife of actor Mike Farrell and the niece of actress Nanette Fabares.<br />
'''''The Donna Reed Show''''', an [[ABC]] situation comedy which aired from 1958 to 1966, portrayed the life of an [[United States|American]] [[suburb]]an family. [[Iowa]] native Donna Reed (1921-1986), is cast in the series as Donna Stone, an unselfish and resourceful housewife and loving mother. <br />
<br />
The series also starred Carl Lawrence Betz (1921-1978) as Dr. Alex Stone, a pediatrician; Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (1944-2026) as Mary Stone, Paul Petersen (born 1945) as Jeff Stone, and Patty Petersen as Trisha. In the last three season, [[Hogan's Heroes|Bob Crane]] and [[Ann McCrea]] joined the cast as David and Midge Kelsey, the Stones' neighbors.<br />
<br />
Though the show espoused inherent [[conservative]] values, Donna Reed herself was a [[Hollywood]] [[liberal]].<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
[[Conservative values]]<br />
<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Donna Reed Show, The}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Television Shows]]<br />
[[Category:Comedy]]<br />
[[Category:Greatest Conservative TV Shows]]<br />
[[Category:1950s]]<br />
[[Category:1960s]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Alan_Simpson&diff=2203124Alan Simpson2026-09-02T11:08:05Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=Alan Kooi Simpson<br />
| image=Alan Simpson of WY.jpg<br />
| office=[[United States Senator]]<br>for [[Wyoming]]<br />
| term_start=January 1, 1979<br />
| term_end=January 3, 1997<br />
| predecessor=[[Clifford Hansen]]<br />
| successor=[[Mike Enzi]]<br />
| office2=Senate Majority Whip<br />
| leader2=[[Bob Dole]]<br />
| term_start2=January 3, 1985<br />
| term_end2=January 3, 1987<br />
| predecessor2=[[Ted Stevens]]<br />
| successor2=[[Alan Cranston]]<br />
| office3=Senate Minority Whip<br />
| leader3=Bob Dole<br />
| term_start3=January 3, 1987<br />
| term_end3=January 3, 1995<br />
| predecessor3=Alan Cranston<br />
| successor3=Wendell Ford ([[Kentucky]])<br />
| office4=Co-Chairman with [[Erskine Bowles]] ([[North Carolina]]) of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform<br />
| term_start4=February 18, 2010<br />
| term_end4=December 1, 2010<br />
| office5=Wyoming State Representative for Park County<br />
| term_start5=January 1, 1965<br />
| term_end5=January1, 1977<br />
| birth_date=September 2, 1931<br />
| birth_place=[[Denver]], [[Colorado]]<br />
| death_date=March 14, 2025 (aged 93)<br />
| death_place=Cody, Wyoming<br />
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br />
| occupation=[[Attorney]]<br />
| religion=[[Episcopalian]]<br />
| spouse=Ann Schroll Simpson (married 1954; died 2026)<br />
| children=Colin M. Simpson<br> (former state representative)<br><br />
William Simpson<br><br />
Susan Simpson Gallagher<br />
| relations=[[Milward Simpson]] (father)<br>[[Peter K. Simpson]] (brother)<br />
| alma_mater=University of Wyoming at Laramie (BA and JD)<br />
| branch=[[United States Army]]<br />
| serviceyears=1954–1956<br />
| rank=Second [[Lieutenant]]<br />
| unit=5th Infantry Regiment<br><br />
2nd Armored Division}}<br />
<br />
'''Alan Kooi Simpson''' (September 2, 1931 &ndash; March 14, 2025) served [[Wyoming]] in the [[U.S. Senate]] from 1979 to 1997. Despite his connection to the [[Republican Party]], he is a [[liberal]] on social issues. He originally benefited from the [[conservative]] reputation of his father, [[Milward Simpson]], who served Wyoming in the U.S. Senate from 1962 to 1967, after having been governor of Wyoming from 1955 to 1959. Simpson has been an advocate of fiscally conservative positions and argued strongly for entitlement reform. However, on social issues, he supported [[abortion]] and [[same-sex marriage]]. Simpson is most known for the [[Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986|Simpson-Mazzoli Act]], which President [[Ronald Reagan]] signed into law. The measure granted amnesty to three million illegal aliens. He was a co-chairman of the Simpson/Bowles committee. Since leaving the Senate, Simpson has taught at his ''alma mater,'' the University of Wyoming at Laramie. <br />
<br />
Simpson's political leanings can be summed up in his own words:<br />
<br />
:'''''Any education that matters is "liberal." All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.'''''<br />
<br />
In the 2002 gubernatorial election, Simpson accused two [[primary]] candidates, [[Ray Hunkins]] of Wheatland and Bill Sniffin of Lander, of having lied about the record of [[Eli Bebout]], Simpson's choice for the party nomination. Simpson claimed that Hunkins and Sniffin had misrepresented Bebout's position on nuclear waste dumping and water rights: "These gents running for governor - I mean Ray Hunkins and Bill Sniffin - wouldn't seem to know the truth if it bit 'em on the fanny."<ref name=billings>{{cite web|url=http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/simpson-apologizes-to-hunkins/article_60ca4c80-ff54-50b5-b492-4e765674fe1d.html|title=Simpson apologizes to Hunkins|date=August 27, 2002|publisher=''Billings Gazette''|location=Billings, Montana|accessdate=April 19, 2016}}</ref> Simpson subsequently apologized to Hunkins.<ref name=billings/> Bebout won the nomination but was defeated in a close vote by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Dave Freudenthal in the [[general election]].<br />
<br />
In July 2022, Simpson cut a television commercial for liberal Republican U.S. Representative [[Liz Cheney]] and attacked former President [[Donald Trump]], who endorsed her primary challenger, the conservative [[Harriet Hageman]]. Simpson called Trump "a vicious animal" who "poisoned democracy." He declared the party of which he was a former assistant Senate leader had become "a cult" under the influence of Trump.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-vicious-animal-who-poisoned-democracy-ex-gop-sen-alan-simpson/ar-AAZFZz6?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=69876ea5f6a446ecae99ef70bdcfd75b|title=Trump "Vicious Animal" who "Poisoned Democracy|publisher=msn.com|accessdate=July 17, 2022}}</ref><br />
<br />
Simpson died at his home in Cody at the age of ninety-three in the spring of 2025. The next year his wife, the former Ann Schroll died.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Simpson, Alan}}<br />
[[Category:Wyoming]]<br />
[[Category:Attorneys]]<br />
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]<br />
[[Category:Libertarians]]<br />
[[Category:Fiscal Conservatives]]<br />
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]<br />
[[Category:Republicans]]<br />
[[Category:State Representatives]]<br />
[[Category:Episcopalians]]<br />
[[Category:United States Army]]<br />
[[Category:Immigration]]<br />
[[Category:RINOs]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Alan_Simpson&diff=2203123Alan Simpson2026-09-02T11:05:57Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=Alan Kooi Simpson<br />
| image=Alan Simpson of WY.jpg<br />
| office=[[United States Senator]]<br>for [[Wyoming]]<br />
| term_start=January 1, 1979<br />
| term_end=January 3, 1997<br />
| predecessor=[[Clifford Hansen]]<br />
| successor=[[Mike Enzi]]<br />
| office2=Senate Majority Whip<br />
| leader2=[[Bob Dole]]<br />
| term_start2=January 3, 1985<br />
| term_end2=January 3, 1987<br />
| predecessor2=[[Ted Stevens]]<br />
| successor2=[[Alan Cranston]]<br />
| office3=Senate Minority Whip<br />
| leader3=Bob Dole<br />
| term_start3=January 3, 1987<br />
| term_end3=January 3, 1995<br />
| predecessor3=Alan Cranston<br />
| successor3=Wendell Ford ([[Kentucky]])<br />
| office4=Co-Chairman with [[Erskine Bowles]] ([[North Carolina]]) of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform<br />
| term_start4=February 18, 2010<br />
| term_end4=December 1, 2010<br />
| office5=Wyoming State Representative for Park County<br />
| term_start5=January 1, 1965<br />
| term_end5=January1, 1977<br />
| birth_date=September 2, 1931<br />
| birth_place=[[Denver]], [[Colorado]]<br />
| death_date=March 14, 2025 (aged 93)<br />
| death_place=Cody, Wyoming<br />
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br />
| occupation=[[Attorney]]<br />
| religion=[[Episcopalian]]<br />
| spouse=Ann Schroll Simpson (married 1954; died 2026)<br />
| children=Colin M. Simpson<br> (former state representative)<br><br />
William Simpson<br><br />
Susan Simpson Gallagher<br />
| relations=[[Milward Simpson]] (father)<br>[[Peter K. Simpson]] (brother)<br />
| alma_mater=University of Wyoming at Laramie (BA and JD)<br />
| branch=[[United States Army]]<br />
| serviceyears=1954–1956<br />
| rank=Second [[Lieutenant]]<br />
| unit=5th Infantry Regiment<br><br />
2nd Armored Division}}<br />
<br />
'''Alan Kooi Simpson''' (September 2, 1931 &ndash; March 14, 2025) served [[Wyoming]] in the [[U.S. Senate]] from 1979 to 1997. Despite his connection to the [[Republican Party]], he is a [[liberal]] on social issues. He originally benefited from the [[conservative]] reputation of his father, [[Milward Simpson]], who served Wyoming in the U.S. Senate from 1962 to 1967, after having been governor of Wyoming from 1955 to 1959. Simpson has been an advocate of fiscally conservative positions and argued strongly for entitlement reform. However, on social issues, he supports [[abortion]] and [[same-sex marriage]]. Simpson is most known for the [[Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986|Simpson-Mazzoli Act]], which President [[Ronald Reagan]] signed into law. The measure granted amnesty to three million illegal aliens. He was a co-chairman of the Simpson/Bowles committee. Since leaving the Senate, Simpson has taught at his ''alma mater,'' the University of Wyoming at Laramie. <br />
<br />
Simpson's political leanings can be summed up in his own words:<br />
<br />
:'''''Any education that matters is "liberal." All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.'''''<br />
<br />
In the 2002 gubernatorial election, Simpson accused two [[primary]] candidates, [[Ray Hunkins]] of Wheatland and Bill Sniffin of Lander, of having lied about the record of [[Eli Bebout]], Simpson's choice for the party nomination. Simpson claimed that Hunkins and Sniffin had misrepresented Bebout's position on nuclear waste dumping and water rights: "These gents running for governor - I mean Ray Hunkins and Bill Sniffin - wouldn't seem to know the truth if it bit 'em on the fanny."<ref name=billings>{{cite web|url=http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/simpson-apologizes-to-hunkins/article_60ca4c80-ff54-50b5-b492-4e765674fe1d.html|title=Simpson apologizes to Hunkins|date=August 27, 2002|publisher=''Billings Gazette''|location=Billings, Montana|accessdate=April 19, 2016}}</ref> Simpson subsequently apologized to Hunkins.<ref name=billings/> Bebout won the nomination but was defeated in a close vote by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Dave Freudenthal in the [[general election]].<br />
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In July 2022, Simpson cut a television commercial for liberal Republican U.S. Representative [[Liz Cheney]] and attacked former President [[Donald Trump]], who endorsed her primary challenger, the conservative [[Harriet Hageman]]. Simpson called Trump "a vicious animal" who "poisoned democracy." He declared the party of which he was a former assistant Senate leader had become "a cult" under the influence of Trump.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-vicious-animal-who-poisoned-democracy-ex-gop-sen-alan-simpson/ar-AAZFZz6?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=69876ea5f6a446ecae99ef70bdcfd75b|title=Trump "Vicious Animal" who "Poisoned Democracy|publisher=msn.com|accessdate=July 17, 2022}}</ref><br />
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Simpson died at his home in Cody at the age of ninety-three in the spring of 2025.<br />
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<div>[[Image:Donna Reed.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Donna Reed starred in her own situation comedy on [[ABC]] [[television]] from 1958 to 1966.]]<br />
[[Image:Carl Betz.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Carl Betz was cast as Dr. Alex Stone on ''The Donna Reed Show.'']]<br />
[[Image:Paul Petersen.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Paul Petersen rocketed to fame as a child star in the role of Jeff Stone.]]<br />
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'''''The Donna Reed Show''''', an [[ABC]] situation comedy which aired from 1958 to 1966, portrayed the life of an [[United States|American]] [[suburb]]an family. [[Iowa]] native Donna Reed (1921-1986), is cast in the series as Donna Stone, an unselfish and resourceful housewife and loving mother. <br />
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The series also starred Carl Lawrence Betz (1921-1978) as Dr. Alex Stone, a pediatrician; Shelley Fabares (1944-2026) as Mary Stone, Paul Petersen (born 1945) as Jeff Stone, and Patty Petersen as Trisha. In the last three season, [[Hogan's Heroes|Bob Crane]] and [[Ann McCrea]] joined the cast as David and Midge Kelsey, the Stones' neighbors.<br />
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Though the show espoused inherent [[conservative]] values, Donna Reed herself was a [[Hollywood]] [[liberal]].<br />
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==See also==<br />
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=George Leon Nattin, Sr.<br />
| image=George Nattin, Sr. of LA.jpg<br />
| nationality=[[United States|American]]<br />
| office=9th [[Mayor]] of [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]] <br />
| term_start=1961<br />
| term_end=1973<br />
| preceded=[[Jake W. Cameron]] <br />
| succeeded=[[James Cathey]]<br />
| birth_place=Place of birth missing<br />
| birth_date=September 18, 1918<br />
| death_date=April 24, 2002 (aged 83)<br />
| death_place=Place of death missing<br />
| resting_place=Hill Crest Memorial Park in Haughton in Bossier Parish<br />
| residence=(1) Bossier City, Louisiana<br />
(2) [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]]<br />
| occupation=[[Business]]man<br />
| spouse= Ava Vernon Nattin<br />
| children=[[George L. Nattin, Jr.]]<br />
| parents=George Washington Sentell Nattin<br><br />
Eva Leona Strayhan Nattin<br />
| religion=[[Church of Christ]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''George Leon Nattin, Sr.''' (September 18, 1918 &ndash; April 24, 2002),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.com/George-Nattin-1918-2002-Social-Security-Death-Index/07026552105943162881|title=George Nattin (1918-2002)|publisher=mocavo.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref> was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] who served three terms from 1961 to 1973 as the ninth [[mayor]] of [[Bossier City]], the sister city to [[Shreveport]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<br />
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Only two other mayors, [[Hoffman Lee Fuller]] and George Dement, each with four terms, served longer in the position than Nattin.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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Nattin was one of three sons and two daughters, all deceased, of George Washington Sentell Nattin (1888-1924) and the former Eva Leona Strayhan (1885-1958). His father died before George was not yet seven years of age.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=waylan-ross-nattin&pid=153047604|title=Waylan Ross Nattin, Sr. (brother of George Nattin)|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 12, 2011|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref> was married to the former Ava Vernon (1920-2002); the couple had one child, [[George L. Nattin, Jr.]], born in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], and a champion [[basketball]] player at Bossier High School and for the [[Louisiana State University]] Tigers in [[Baton Rouge]]. He was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] and the LSU Basketball All Century Team. Later a [[golf]]er, the junior Nattin worked in casinos in [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]], and became the first president of Horseshoe Casino in Bossier City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=george-nattin&pid=172623444&fhid=10225|title=George Nattin, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=September 30, 2014|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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Nattin was a charter member and former elder of both the Bennett Street [[Church of Christ]] and the Airline Drive Church of Christ in Bossier City.<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54062732|title=George Leon Nattin, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Political life==<br />
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Nattin was the first juvenile officer for the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Department, which he joined in 1955.<ref name=findagrave/> He was the Bossier City police chief from 1958 to 1961 prior to becoming mayor. Under the then city commission government, the mayor of Bossier City was also the public safety commissioner,<ref name=newsstar/> a format also followed in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] in central Louisiana. In the Democratic [[primary]] held on April 8, 1961, Nattin, with 3,204 votes, handily unseated one-term Mayor [[Jake W. Cameron]], who had also been the Bossier City police chief. Cameron finished with 1,571 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1649774/|title=City Voters Across State Name Leaders|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|date=April 10, 1961|page=22|accessdate=January 17, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Nattin is particularly remembered for having establishing the municipal-owned Bossier General Hospital, now called Christus Schumpert Bossier. He pushed for the expansion of the city sewerage system, its police and fire departments, and the city jail. The improvements were funded by a one-cent [[sales tax]], the first municipal sales tax ever approved in North Louisiana.<ref name=mrt>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrt.com/import/article_ab13b936-ac7a-5805-af4f-1fab64358698.html|title=Former Bossier City mayor dead at 83|publisher=''Midland Reporter-Telegram''|date=April 26, 2002|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><ref name=bossierpast>{{cite web|url=http://bossier.pastperfect-online.com/36091cgi/mweb.exe?request=record&id=8714EAA6-3D78-47DB-83EF-021426627730&type=102=|title=George L. Nattin, Sr.|publisher=bossier.pastperfect-online.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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In 1967, he was photographed in ''The Shreveport Times'' at the post office in Bossier City with the loot recovered from a burglary.<ref>''The Shreveport Times,'' September 18, 1967.</ref><br />
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In 1972, Nattin dismissed Police Chief Bobby Joe Almond (1931-2007), a native of Arcadia in Bienville Parish, a [[United States Navy]] veteran of the [[Korean War]], an 18-year member of the police department who graduated from the[FBI Academy in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=bjalmond/> Nattin claimed that Almond violated civil service and departmental regulations, engaged in conduct unbecoming an officer of the police department, and improperly used police vehicles. Almond claimed that the real reason Nattin moved against him centered upon a dispute over Almond having closed some after-hours nightclubs in The Bossier Strip adult entertainment district. Almond vowed an appeal of his dismissal,<ref name=newsstar>{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/louisiana/monroe/monroe-news-star/1972/09-05/page-2|title=Dismissed Police Chief Plans Fight|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|date=September 5, 1972|page=2|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref> but Nattin was out of office less than a year after the dispute surfaced. Almond's obituary indicates that he retired as police chief and served thereafter as assistant city marshal.<ref name=bjalmond>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Almond&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1116&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=18914860&df=all&|title=Bobby Joe Almond|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=April 13, 2007|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Once out of office, Nattin faced charges of [[bribery]] pushed by then District Attorney [[Charles A. Marvin|Charles Allen "Corky" Marvin]] of the 26th Judicial District Court regarding incidents stemming from Nattin's time as mayor. [[Indictment]]s were brought against Nattin, his son, George, Jr., brother Waylan Ross Nattin, Sr. (1923-2011), assistant police chief Sam Carley Atwood "Sammy" Teutsch, Jr. (1929-1997),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Teutsch&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1116&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=63243288&df=all&|title=Sammy Teutsch|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref> and police major Robert D. Methvin (1930-1994),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Methvin&GSfn=Robert&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1116&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=70155661&df=all&|title=Robert D. Methvin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref> the then director of the Bossier City vice squad. Bossier Parish Sheriff [[Willie Waggonner]] booked the five defendants without fingerprinting them or taking mug shots. Mayor Nattin was alleged to have accepted $300 from a Shreveport air-conditioning contractor doing business with the Bossier City municipal government. Nattin and his son were charged with one count of public contract fraud. Waylan Nattin, also an agent, subsequently suspended, of the Louisiana Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, was accused of three counts of public bribery. The indictments claimed that the Nattins accepted between $100 and $300 weekly from a night club operator to allow that business to remain open after regular hours and to permit illegal [[gambling]] on the premises. The Nattins were also accused of having accepted $1,500 from the same club operator in 1968 and $700 in 1970. Methvin and Teutsch were indicted for failure to enforce gambling and liquor laws and for having "knowingly prohibiting other police officials under their authority to enforce gambling and liquor laws."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/34965302/|title=Former Mayor Indicted On Bossier City Corruption Charges|publisher=''The Camden (Arkansas) News''|date=July 3, 1973|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/35105573/|title=Corruption indictments in Bossier City|publisher=''The El Dorado (Arkansas) Times''|date=July 19, 1973|page=29|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Nattin's trial — he was prosecuted by Marvin's successor as DA, Henry Newton Brown, Jr. — was delayed by the Louisiana Supreme Court, which studied his request that there be separate trials for each of the fourteen indictments. He was quickly acquitted of one charge. "I have always believed in the people of Bossier City and Bossier Parish," Nattin said on hearing of the acquittal.<ref>"Charges still facing Nattin," ''Minden (Louisiana) Press-Herald'', February 4, 1976, p. 3.</ref> Two other charges were combined. This left twelve remaining charges.<ref>"On bribery charges, Nattin to stand trial", ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' June 15, 1976, p. 1.</ref> Ultimately, Nattin was acquitted on two remaining counts against him, and a third charge was dropped.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leagle.com/decision/1975431316So2d115_1418.xml/STATE%20v.%20NATTIN|title=''State v. Nattin''|date=July 25, 1975|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Later years==<br />
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Nattin later worked in [[real estate]] and as vice president for ABM Securities in the office in Houston, Texas. He returned to Bossier City upon his retirement from ABM.<ref name=mrt/> Nattin said that the growth of Bossier City, which continued after his administration was no surprise to him: "With the type of citizens that live in Bossier, I cannot see anything but continued growth. They have very fine people there."<ref name=bossierpast/> In the 2010 U.S. census, Bossier City had in excess of 61,000 population and was the ninth largest city in the state, one designation above the No. 10 city, [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], a regional city in northeastern Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geonames.org/US/LA/largest-cities-in-louisiana.html|title=Louisiana - Largest Cities|publisher=geonames.org|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Nattin died of [[cancer]] at the age of eighty-three. His wife died five months later. After services at the Airline Drive Church of Christ, he was interred at Hill Crest Memorial Park in Haughton in Bossier Parish, later joined by his wife and son. Nattin's parents are instead interred at Cottage Grove Cemetery in Benton, the seat of Bossier Parish.<ref name=findagrave/><br />
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=George Leon Nattin, Sr.<br />
| image=George Nattin, Sr. of LA.jpg<br />
| nationality=[[United States|American]]<br />
| office=9th [[Mayor]] of [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]] <br />
| term_start=1961<br />
| term_end=1973<br />
| preceded=[[Jake W. Cameron]] <br />
| succeeded=[[James Cathey]]<br />
| birth_place=Place of birth missing<br />
| birth_date=September 18, 1918<br />
| death_date=April 24, 2002 (aged 83)<br />
| death_place=Place of death missing<br />
| resting_place=Hill Crest Memorial Park in Haughton in Bossier Parish<br />
| residence=(1) Bossier City, Louisiana<br />
(2) [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]]<br />
| occupation=[[Business]]man<br />
| spouse= Ava Vernon Nattin<br />
| children=[[George L. Nattin, Jr.]]<br />
| parents=George Washington Sentell Nattin<br><br />
Eva Leona Strayhan Nattin<br />
| religion=[[Church of Christ]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''George Leon Nattin, Sr.''' (September 18, 1918 &ndash; April 24, 2002),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.com/George-Nattin-1918-2002-Social-Security-Death-Index/07026552105943162881|title=George Nattin (1918-2002)|publisher=mocavo.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref> was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] who served three terms from 1961 to 1973 as the ninth [[mayor]] of [[Bossier City]], the sister city to [[Shreveport]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<br />
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Only two other mayors, [[Hoffman Lee Fuller]] and George Dement, each with four terms, served longer in the position than Nattin.<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
Nattin was one of three sons and two daughters, all deceased, of George Washington Sentell Nattin (1888-1924) and the former Eva Leona Strayhan (1885-1958). His father died before George was not yet seven years of age.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=waylan-ross-nattin&pid=153047604|title=Waylan Ross Nattin, Sr. (brother of George Nattin)|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 12, 2011|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref> was married to the former Ava Vernon (1920-2002); the couple had one child, [[George L. Nattin, Jr.]], born in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], and a champion [[basketball]] player at Bossier High School and for the [[Louisiana State University]] Tigers in [[Baton Rouge]]. He was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] and the LSU Basketball All Century Team. Later a [[golf]]er, the junior Nattin worked in casinos in [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]], and became the first president of Horseshoe Casino in Bossier City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=george-nattin&pid=172623444&fhid=10225|title=George Nattin, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=September 30, 2014|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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Nattin was a charter member and former elder of both the Bennett Street [[Church of Christ]] and the Airline Drive Church of Christ in Bossier City.<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54062732|title=George Leon Nattin, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Political life==<br />
<br />
Nattin was the first juvenile officer for the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Department, which he joined in 1955.<ref name=findagrave/> He was the Bossier City police chief from 1958 to 1961 prior to becoming mayor. Under the then city commission government, the mayor of Bossier City was also the public safety commissioner,<ref name=newsstar/> a format also followed in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] in central Louisiana. In the Democratic [[primary]] held on April 8, 1961, Nattin, with 3,204 votes, handily unseated one-term Mayor [[Jake W. Cameron]], who had also been the Bossier City police chief. Cameron finished with 1,571 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1649774/|title=City Voters Across State Name Leaders|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|date=April 10, 1961|page=22|accessdate=January 17, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Nattin is particularly remembered for having establishing the municipal-owned Bossier General Hospital, now called Christus Schumpert Bossier. He pushed for the expansion of the city sewerage system, its police and fire departments, and the city jail. The improvements were funded by a one-cent [[sales tax]], the first municipal sales tax ever approved in North Louisiana.<ref name=mrt>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrt.com/import/article_ab13b936-ac7a-5805-af4f-1fab64358698.html|title=Former Bossier City mayor dead at 83|publisher=''Midland Reporter-Telegram''|date=April 26, 2002|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><ref name=bossierpast>{{cite web|url=http://bossier.pastperfect-online.com/36091cgi/mweb.exe?request=record&id=8714EAA6-3D78-47DB-83EF-021426627730&type=102=|title=George L. Nattin, Sr.|publisher=bossier.pastperfect-online.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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In 1967, he was photographed in ''The Shreveport Times'' at the post office in Bossier City with the loot recovered from a burglary.<ref>''The Shreveport Times,'' September 18, 1967.</ref><br />
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In 1972, Nattin dismissed Police Chief Bobby Joe Almond (1931-2007), a native of Arcadia in Bienville Parish, a [[United States Navy]] veteran of the [[Korean War]], an 18-year member of the police department who graduated from the[FBI Academy in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=bjalmond/> Nattin claimed that Almond violated civil service and departmental regulations, engaged in conduct unbecoming an officer of the police department, and improperly used police vehicles. Almond claimed that the real reason Nattin moved against him centered upon a dispute over Almond having closed some after-hours nightclubs in The Bossier Strip adult entertainment district. Almond vowed an appeal of his dismissal,<ref name=newsstar>{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/louisiana/monroe/monroe-news-star/1972/09-05/page-2|title=Dismissed Police Chief Plans Fight|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|date=September 5, 1972|page=2|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref> but Nattin was out of office less than a year after the dispute surfaced. Almond's obituary indicates that he retired as police chief and served thereafter as assistant city marshal.<ref name=bjalmond>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Almond&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1116&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=18914860&df=all&|title=Bobby Joe Almond|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=April 13, 2007|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Once out of office, Nattin faced charges of [[bribery]] pushed by then District Attorney [[Charles A. Marvin|Charles Allen "Corky" Marvin]] of the 26th Judicial District Court regarding incidents stemming from Nattin's time as mayor. [[Indictment]]s were brought against Nattin, his son, George, Jr., brother Waylan Ross Nattin, Sr. (1923-2011), assistant police chief Sam Carley Atwood "Sammy" Teutsch, Jr. (1929-1997),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Teutsch&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1116&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=63243288&df=all&|title=Sammy Teutsch|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref> and police major Robert D. Methvin (1930-1994),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Methvin&GSfn=Robert&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1116&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=70155661&df=all&|title=Robert D. Methvin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref> the then director of the Bossier City vice squad. Bossier Parish Sheriff [[Willie Waggonner]] booked the five defendants without fingerprinting them or taking mug shots. Mayor Nattin was alleged to have accepted $300 from a Shreveport air-conditioning contractor doing business with the Bossier City municipal government. Nattin and his son were charged with one count of public contract fraud. Waylan Nattin, also an agent, subsequently suspended, of the Louisiana Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, was accused of three counts of public bribery. The indictments claimed that the Nattins accepted between $100 and $300 weekly from a night club operator to allow that business to remain open after regular hours and to permit illegal [[gambling]] on the premises. The Nattins were also accused of having accepted $1,500 from the same club operator in 1968 and $700 in 1970. Methvin and Teutsch were indicted for failure to enforce gambling and liquor laws and for having "knowingly prohibiting other police officials under their authority to enforce gambling and liquor laws."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/34965302/|title=Former Mayor Indicted On Bossier City Corruption Charges|publisher=''The Camden (Arkansas) News''|date=July 3, 1973|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/35105573/|title=Corruption indictments in Bossier City|publisher=''The El Dorado (Arkansas) Times''|date=July 19, 1973|page=29|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Nattin's trial — he was prosecuted by Marvin's successor as DA, Henry Newton Brown, Jr. — was delayed by the Louisiana Supreme Court, which studied his request that there be separate trials for each of the fourteen indictments. He was quickly acquitted of one charge. "I have always believed in the people of Bossier City and Bossier Parish," Nattin said on hearing of the acquittal.<ref>"Charges still facing Nattin," ''Minden (Louisiana) Press-Herald'', February 4, 1976, p. 3.</ref> Two other charges were combined. This left twelve remaining charges.<ref>"On bribery charges, Nattin to stand trial", ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' June 15, 1976, p. 1.</ref> Ultimately, Nattin was acquitted on two remaining counts against him, and a third charge was dropped.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leagle.com/decision/1975431316So2d115_1418.xml/STATE%20v.%20NATTIN|title=''State v. Nattin''|date=July 25, 1975|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Later years==<br />
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Nattin later worked in [[real estate]] and as vice president for ABM Securities in the office in Houston, Texas. He returned to Bossier City upon his retirement from ABM.<ref name=mrt/> Nattin said that the growth of Bossier City, which continued after his administration was no surprise to him: "With the type of citizens that live in Bossier, I cannot see anything but continued growth. They have very fine people there."<ref name=bossierpast/> In the 2010 U.S. census, Bossier City had in excess of 61,000 population and was the ninth largest city in the state, one designation above the No. 10 city, [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], a regional city in northeastern Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geonames.org/US/LA/largest-cities-in-louisiana.html|title=Louisiana - Largest Cities|publisher=geonames.org|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Nattin died of [[cancer]] at the age of eighty-three. His wife died five months later. After services at the Airline Drive Church of Christ, he was interred at Hill Crest Memorial Park in Haughton in Bossier Parish, later joined by his wife and son. Nattin's parents are instead interred at Cottage Grove Cemetery in Benton, the seat of Bossier Parish.<ref name=findagrave/><br />
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[[Category:Christians]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=George_Nattin&diff=2203119George Nattin2026-09-02T10:59:51Z<p>BHathorn2: /* Political life */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=George Leon Nattin, Sr.<br />
| image=George Nattin, Sr. of LA.jpg<br />
| nationality=[[United States|American]]<br />
| office=9th [[Mayor]] of [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]] <br />
| term_start=1961<br />
| term_end=1973<br />
| preceded=[[Jake W. Cameron]] <br />
| succeeded=[[James Cathey]]<br />
| birth_place=Place of birth missing<br />
| birth_date=September 18, 1918<br />
| death_date=April 24, 2002 (aged 83)<br />
| death_place=Place of death missing<br />
| resting_place=Hill Crest Memorial Park in Haughton in Bossier Parish<br />
| residence=(1) Bossier City, Louisiana<br />
(2) [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]]<br />
| occupation=[[Business]]man<br />
| spouse= Ava Vernon Nattin<br />
| children=George Nattin, Jr.<br />
| parents=George Washington Sentell Nattin<br><br />
Eva Leona Strayhan Nattin<br />
| religion=[[Church of Christ]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''George Leon Nattin, Sr.''' (September 18, 1918 &ndash; April 24, 2002),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.com/George-Nattin-1918-2002-Social-Security-Death-Index/07026552105943162881|title=George Nattin (1918-2002)|publisher=mocavo.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref> was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] who served three terms from 1961 to 1973 as the ninth [[mayor]] of [[Bossier City]], the sister city to [[Shreveport]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<br />
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Only two other mayors, [[Hoffman Lee Fuller]] and George Dement, each with four terms, served longer in the position than Nattin.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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Nattin was one of three sons and two daughters, all deceased, of George Washington Sentell Nattin (1888-1924) and the former Eva Leona Strayhan (1885-1958). His father died before George was yet seven years of age.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=waylan-ross-nattin&pid=153047604|title=Waylan Ross Nattin, Sr. (brother of George Nattin)|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 12, 2011|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref> was married to the former Ava Vernon (1920-2002); the couple had one child, [[George L. Nattin, Jr.]], born in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], and a champion [[basketball]] player at Bossier High School and for the [[Louisiana State University]] Tigers in [[Baton Rouge]]. He was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] and the LSU Basketball All Century Team. Later a [[golf]]er, the junior Nattin worked in casinos in [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]], and became the first president of Horseshoe Casino in Bossier City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=george-nattin&pid=172623444&fhid=10225|title=George Nattin, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=September 30, 2014|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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Nattin was a charter member and former elder of both the Bennett Street [[Church of Christ]] and the Airline Drive Church of Christ in Bossier City.<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54062732|title=George Leon Nattin, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Political life==<br />
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Nattin was the first juvenile officer for the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Department, which he joined in 1955.<ref name=findagrave/> He was the Bossier City police chief from 1958 to 1961 prior to becoming mayor. Under the then city commission government, the mayor of Bossier City was also the public safety commissioner,<ref name=newsstar/> a format also followed in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] in central Louisiana. In the Democratic [[primary]] held on April 8, 1961, Nattin, with 3,204 votes, handily unseated one-term Mayor [[Jake W. Cameron]], who had also been the Bossier City police chief. Cameron finished with 1,571 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1649774/|title=City Voters Across State Name Leaders|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|date=April 10, 1961|page=22|accessdate=January 17, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Nattin is particularly remembered for having establishing the municipal-owned Bossier General Hospital, now called Christus Schumpert Bossier. He pushed for the expansion of the city sewerage system, its police and fire departments, and the city jail. The improvements were funded by a one-cent [[sales tax]], the first municipal sales tax ever approved in North Louisiana.<ref name=mrt>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrt.com/import/article_ab13b936-ac7a-5805-af4f-1fab64358698.html|title=Former Bossier City mayor dead at 83|publisher=''Midland Reporter-Telegram''|date=April 26, 2002|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><ref name=bossierpast>{{cite web|url=http://bossier.pastperfect-online.com/36091cgi/mweb.exe?request=record&id=8714EAA6-3D78-47DB-83EF-021426627730&type=102=|title=George L. Nattin, Sr.|publisher=bossier.pastperfect-online.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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In 1967, he was photographed in ''The Shreveport Times'' at the post office in Bossier City with the loot recovered from a burglary.<ref>''The Shreveport Times,'' September 18, 1967.</ref><br />
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In 1972, Nattin dismissed Police Chief Bobby Joe Almond (1931-2007), a native of Arcadia in Bienville Parish, a [[United States Navy]] veteran of the [[Korean War]], an 18-year member of the police department who graduated from the[FBI Academy in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=bjalmond/> Nattin claimed that Almond violated civil service and departmental regulations, engaged in conduct unbecoming an officer of the police department, and improperly used police vehicles. Almond claimed that the real reason Nattin moved against him centered upon a dispute over Almond having closed some after-hours nightclubs in The Bossier Strip adult entertainment district. Almond vowed an appeal of his dismissal,<ref name=newsstar>{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/louisiana/monroe/monroe-news-star/1972/09-05/page-2|title=Dismissed Police Chief Plans Fight|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|date=September 5, 1972|page=2|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref> but Nattin was out of office less than a year after the dispute surfaced. Almond's obituary indicates that he retired as police chief and served thereafter as assistant city marshal.<ref name=bjalmond>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Almond&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1116&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=18914860&df=all&|title=Bobby Joe Almond|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=April 13, 2007|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Once out of office, Nattin faced charges of [[bribery]] pushed by then District Attorney [[Charles A. Marvin|Charles Allen "Corky" Marvin]] of the 26th Judicial District Court regarding incidents stemming from Nattin's time as mayor. [[Indictment]]s were brought against Nattin, his son, George, Jr., brother Waylan Ross Nattin, Sr. (1923-2011), assistant police chief Sam Carley Atwood "Sammy" Teutsch, Jr. (1929-1997),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Teutsch&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1116&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=63243288&df=all&|title=Sammy Teutsch|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref> and police major Robert D. Methvin (1930-1994),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Methvin&GSfn=Robert&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1116&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=70155661&df=all&|title=Robert D. Methvin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref> the then director of the Bossier City vice squad. Bossier Parish Sheriff [[Willie Waggonner]] booked the five defendants without fingerprinting them or taking mug shots. Mayor Nattin was alleged to have accepted $300 from a Shreveport air-conditioning contractor doing business with the Bossier City municipal government. Nattin and his son were charged with one count of public contract fraud. Waylan Nattin, also an agent, subsequently suspended, of the Louisiana Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, was accused of three counts of public bribery. The indictments claimed that the Nattins accepted between $100 and $300 weekly from a night club operator to allow that business to remain open after regular hours and to permit illegal [[gambling]] on the premises. The Nattins were also accused of having accepted $1,500 from the same club operator in 1968 and $700 in 1970. Methvin and Teutsch were indicted for failure to enforce gambling and liquor laws and for having "knowingly prohibiting other police officials under their authority to enforce gambling and liquor laws."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/34965302/|title=Former Mayor Indicted On Bossier City Corruption Charges|publisher=''The Camden (Arkansas) News''|date=July 3, 1973|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/35105573/|title=Corruption indictments in Bossier City|publisher=''The El Dorado (Arkansas) Times''|date=July 19, 1973|page=29|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Nattin's trial — he was prosecuted by Marvin's successor as DA, Henry Newton Brown, Jr. — was delayed by the Louisiana Supreme Court, which studied his request that there be separate trials for each of the fourteen indictments. He was quickly acquitted of one charge. "I have always believed in the people of Bossier City and Bossier Parish," Nattin said on hearing of the acquittal.<ref>"Charges still facing Nattin," ''Minden (Louisiana) Press-Herald'', February 4, 1976, p. 3.</ref> Two other charges were combined. This left twelve remaining charges.<ref>"On bribery charges, Nattin to stand trial", ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' June 15, 1976, p. 1.</ref> Ultimately, Nattin was acquitted on two remaining counts against him, and a third charge was dropped.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leagle.com/decision/1975431316So2d115_1418.xml/STATE%20v.%20NATTIN|title=''State v. Nattin''|date=July 25, 1975|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Later years==<br />
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Nattin later worked in [[real estate]] and as vice president for ABM Securities in the office in Houston, Texas. He returned to Bossier City upon his retirement from ABM.<ref name=mrt/> Nattin said that the growth of Bossier City, which continued after his administration was no surprise to him: "With the type of citizens that live in Bossier, I cannot see anything but continued growth. They have very fine people there."<ref name=bossierpast/> In the 2010 U.S. census, Bossier City had in excess of 61,000 population and was the ninth largest city in the state, one designation above the No. 10 city, [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], a regional city in northeastern Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geonames.org/US/LA/largest-cities-in-louisiana.html|title=Louisiana - Largest Cities|publisher=geonames.org|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Nattin died of [[cancer]] at the age of eighty-three. His wife died five months later. After services at the Airline Drive Church of Christ, he was interred at Hill Crest Memorial Park in Haughton in Bossier Parish, later joined by his wife and son. Nattin's parents are instead interred at Cottage Grove Cemetery in Benton, the seat of Bossier Parish.<ref name=findagrave/><br />
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=Charles Allen "Corky" Marvin<br />
| image=Charles A. Marvin of LA.jpg<br />
| office=District Attorney of Bossier and Webster parishes, [[Louisiana]]<br />
| term_start =November 1971<br />
| term_end=July 1, 1975<br />
| preceded=John Bailey Benton, Jr.<br />
| succeeded=Henry Newton Brown, Jr.<br />
| office2 = Judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal<br />
| term_start2 =July 1, 1975<br />
| term_end2=1999<br />
| preceded2=[[H. Welborn Ayres]]<br />
| succeeded2=<br />
|office3=Chief Judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal<br />
|term_start3=1990<br />
|term_end3=1999<br />
| constituency2 =Bienville, Bossier, Caldwell, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Union, Webster, and Winn parishes<br />
| birth_date=July 18, 1929<br />
| birth_place=Jonesville, Catahoula Parish<br />
| death_date=April 27, 2003 (aged 73)<br />
| death_place=<br />
| death_cause=[[Cancer]]<br />
| residence=[[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], Webster Parish<br />
| resting_place=Gardens of Memory Cemetery in Minden<br />
| occupation]]; [[Judge]]<br />
| spouse=Rebecca Campbell Marvin (married 1956-2003, his death) (died 2026)<br />
| children =Melissa Marvin Brown<br><br />
Michele Marvin Simoneaux<br><br />
[[Schuyler Marvin|John Schuyler Marvin]]<br><br />
Mary Margaret Marvin Johnson<br />
| relations=Foster Campbell (wife's cousin)<br />
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana Tech University]]<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center<br />
| religion=[[United Methodist]]<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]<br />
| branch=[[United States Air Force]]<br />
| battles=[[Korean War]]}}<br />
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'''Charles Allen Marvin''', known also as '''Corky Marvin''' (July 18, 1929 &ndash; April 27, 2003),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Marvin&GSfn=Charles&GSmn=A&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1168&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=91162259&df=all&|title=Charles A. "Corky" Marvin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 8, 2022}}</ref> was a district attorney and a state circuit court [[judge]] in North [[Louisiana]] from 1971 until his retirement in 1999.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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Marvin was born to Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler L. Marvin in Jonesville in Catahoula Parish in northeastern [[Louisiana]]. He studied [[journalism]] at [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], where he was the outstanding graduate in his field and an editor of the student newspaper, ''The Tech Talk.'' He was later involved in fund-raising drives for Louisiana Tech.<ref>"Marvin and Moore Will Head Local Louisiana Tech Fund Drive," ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],', May 5, 1969, p. 3.</ref> Marvin then worked for a year as editor of the weekly newspaper ''The Delhi Dispatch'' in Delhi in Richland Parish], east of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]]. After service in the [[United States Air Force]] during the [[Korean War]],<ref name=mpressherald>"LSU Law School recognizes Judge C.A. Marvin", ''Minden Press-Herald,'' June 5, 1990, p. 10.</ref><br />
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Marvin attended the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]], from which he graduated after three years of study in 1957. In 1989, Louisiana Tech named him a "Distinguished Alumnus".<ref name=obit/> In 1962, Marvin became an original board member of the Louisiana Tech Foundation, along with another Minden attorney, Luther Moore, and later Caddo Parish [[Sheriff]] [[Donald E. Hathaway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latech.edu/administration/policies-and-procedures/3101.php|title=Policy 3101 - Introduction, Foundation Programs and Operations, and Future|date=August 26, 2000|publisher=latech.edu|accessdate=June 23, 2014}}</ref> In 1990, the LSU Law Center named Marvin an honorary member of the Order of the Coif and inducted him into its hall of fame.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogybuff.com/la/la-webster-obits5.htm|title=Charles Marvin|publisher=genealogybuff.com|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><ref name=mpressherald/><br />
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In 1956, Marvin married the former Rebecca Campbell (September 14, 1935 - August 30, 2026) of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] and began his practice of law there with the firm Campbell, Campbell and Marvin, later Campbell, Campbell, Marvin, and Johnson. The first "Campbell" in the firm was John T. Campbell (1903-1993), Rebecca's father, who was also a former clerk of the Louisiana State Senate].<ref>"Local attorney to be honored," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' March 20, 1992, p. 1.</ref> The second "Campbell," Cecil P. Campbell (1909-1996), was her uncle. Her younger brother is former state senator and veteran Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Lonnie Campbell, Jr., a former candidate for governor and the U.S. Senate in 2016. During his days as a practicing attorney, Charles Marvin was president of the Minden [[Chamber of Commerce]], a member of the local [[Selective Service]] board, and the commander of the Wiley-Pevy American Legion post.<ref>"Marvin Elected Commander of American Legion Post," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' July 12, 1967, p. 1.</ref> He was also affiliated with the veterans organization the Forty and Eight.<ref name=obit/><br />
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==Political and legal career==<br />
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A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Marvin in 1966 ran unsuccessfully for the position of Minden and Ward I city judge. He was handily defeated by the incumbent [[Cecil C. Lowe]], who was elected in 1976 as a member of the 26th Judicial District Court, which includes Bossier and Webster parishes. Lowe received 2,952 votes to Marvin's 1,530; Marvin carried only one precinct in that race.<ref>''The Minden Press-Herald,'' August 15, 1966, pp. 1-2.</ref>The city judgeship was subsequently held by John Cecil Campbell, Mrs. Marvin's cousin.<br />
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In November 1967, Marvin withdrew from a runoff election for the Webster Parish Democratic Executive Committee, when he finished sixth among ten candidates for five places on the board. He deferred to the fifth-place candidate, B. James Bryan of Springhill, in northern Webster Parish.<ref>"Marvin Withdraws from Runoff Race with Bryan," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' November 16, 1967, p. 1.</ref><br />
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In November 1971, Marvin was elected to succeed John Bailey Benton, Jr. (1924-2009) of Minden, the interim DA of the 26th Judicial District. The position had opened when Louis H. Padgett, Jr. (1913-1980), resigned to run successfully for the state district court.<ref name=mphapril>"Marvin seeks judgeship; election se,'' ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' April 9, 1975, p. 1.</ref> Benton won in Bossier Parish by fifty-six votes but was overwhelmed by Marvin's majority in Webster Parish.<ref>"Marvin Defeats Benton," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' November 8, 1971, p. 1.</ref> Marvin then won the full term in the position in 1972.<ref name=mphapril/><br />
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In 1973, DA Marvin pursued originally fourteen counts of public bribery against [[George Nattin|George Nattin, Sr.]], who stepped down as [[mayor]] of [[Bossier City]] after twelve years in office, and Nattin's son, [[George Nattin, Jr.]] Former Mayor Nattin was subsequently acquitted of the charges.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrt.com/import/article_ab13b936-ac7a-5805-af4f-1fab64358698.html|title=Former Bossier City mayor dead at 83|publisher=''The Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram''|date=April 26, 2002|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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In 1975, Marvin resigned as DA upon his election to the Second Circuit Court of Appeal]], based in [[Shreveport]]. Marvin defeated a fellow Democrat, [[Fred W. Jones, Jr.]], a native of Rayville in Richland Parish and a then district judge in Ruston.<ref>"Jones will seek judgeship," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' April 2, 1975, p. 1.</ref> In the nine-parish race, Marvin polled 16,106 votes; Jones, 14,521. There was no [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate. Marvin succeeded the retiring Judge [[H. Welborn Ayres]], a native of [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]], who retired at the mandatory age of seventy-five.<ref>''The Minden Press-Herald,'' May 15, 1975, p. 1.</ref><br />
Jones was subsequently elected to the circuit court in 1980 and became a colleague of Judge Marvin for the next decade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasc.org/community_outreach/in_memoriam/jones_fred.asp|title=In Memoriam: Retired Judge Fred W. Jones, Jr.|publisher=lasc.org|accessdate=June 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Thereafter, Marvin was elected to full ten-year terms on the court in 1978 and 1988, both times without opposition. From 1990 until his retirement in 1999, Marvin was the chief judge of the circuit court. He was frequently invited to serve as a pro tempore justice for the Louisiana Supreme Court. He was also a president of the Council of Chief Judges of the United States. He was the author of numerous law review articles and served as an adjunct professor at the LSU Law Center, the historically black rambling State University, and Bossier Parish Community College. For six terms, he was president of the Webster Parish Bar Association and a member of the National Trial Lawyers Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasc.org/community_outreach/in_memoriam/marvin_corky.asp|title=In Memoriam: Retired Second Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Charles A. "Corky" Marvin|publisher=lasc.org|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><br />
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Along with bail bondsman [[Angelo Roppolo]] and others, Judge Marvin one of the founding members of the Shreveport Red Mass Society, which holds an annual service for lawyers, judges, and law enforcement personnel to highlight the connection between faith in [[God]] and the rule of law. The Red Mass is held at Holy Trinity [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] Church in downtown Shreveport.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.judgescottcrichton.com/tributetoangeloroppolo|title=Beyond the City Limits: The Illustrious Life and Legacy of "Nickel Politician" Angelo Roppolo|date=July 9, 2012|publisher=judgescottcrichton.com|author=Scott Crichton|accessdate=November 2, 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life and legacy==<br />
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Judge Marvin was a trustee and Sunday School teacher at the Minden First [[United Methodist]] Church. He was also a trustee of the Louisiana Methodist Foundation and a member of the Masonic lodge and the Shriners.<ref name=obit/><br />
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There are four Marvin children. Melissa Brown (born 1958) is the wife of Gary Lamar Brown (born 1954), whose parents, Newton and Erlene Nealy Brown, were murdered in their home in Dixie Inn west of Minden on Christmas Eve, 1982, by Jimmy L. Glass (1962-1987) and Jimmy Charles Wingo (1952-1987), a native of Jackson County, [[Arkansas]], and a former Boy Scout.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54265863/jimmy-charles-wingo|title=Jimmy Charles Wingo|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 8, 2022}}</ref> Glass petitioned unsuccessfully to the [[United States Supreme Court]] on the premise that his pending 1987 execution was "cruel and unusual punishment."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141175716/jimmy-l-glass?msclkid=1815accecf0211ecab6f45936331165b|title=Jimmy L. Glass|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 8, 2022}}</ref>The murders occurred only a few months after Melissa and Gary Brown were wed in Minden. The tragic case attracted national attention because of an upswing in executions in Louisiana at the time and a debate over the constitutionality of the [[death penalty]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/16/us/louisiana-executes-2d-man-in-slaying-of-couple.html|title=Louisiana Executes Second Man in Slaying of Couple, June 16, 1987|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eunicetoday.com/brown-fusilier-announce-engagement|title=Brown, Fusilier announce engagement, May 3, 2013|publisher=''Eunice Today''|accessdate=November 26, 2013}}</ref><br />
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Second daughter Michele Simoneaux and her husband, Rodney J. Simoneaux (both born 1959), reside inBelle Rose in Assumption Parish in south Louisiana. Son [[Schuyler Marvin|John Schuyler Marvin]] is the husband of the former Jodi Lane Comeaux. The youngest Marvin daughter, Mary Margaret, is the wife of Bruce Johnson. There were twelve grandchildren at the time of the judge's death.<ref name=obit/><br />
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Schuyler Marvin is the current DA of Bossier and Webster parishes, having first been elected in November 2002, some five months before his father's death. He was unopposed for a second six-year term in 2008. The junior Marvin is a Democrat-turned-Republican.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.26thda.org/|title=J. Schuyler Marvin, District Attorney|publisher=26thda.org|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><br />
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Judge Marvin died of [[cancer]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nakedownership.com/archives/cat_shreveport.html|title=Former 2nd Circuit Chief Judge Dies at 73|date=April 28, 2003|publisher=nakedownership.com|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref> at the age of seventy-three. Services were held on April 29, 2003, at First United Methodist Church in Minden. He is interred there at Gardens of Memory Cemetery.<ref name=obit/><br />
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In 2015, Marvin was posthumously inducted into the [[Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]] in Winnfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9728:corky-marvin-elected-to-hall-of-fame&catid=34:local-news&Itemid=69l=|title='Corky' Marvin elected to hall of fame|publisher=''The Minden Press-Herald''|accessdate=June 25, 2014}}</ref><br />
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<div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name=Charles Allen "Corky" Marvin<br />
| image=Charles A. Marvin of LA.jpg<br />
| office=District Attorney of Bossier and Webster parishes, [[Louisiana]]<br />
| term_start =November 1971<br />
| term_end=July 1, 1975<br />
| preceded=John Bailey Benton, Jr.<br />
| succeeded=Henry Newton Brown, Jr.<br />
| office2 = Judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal<br />
| term_start2 =July 1, 1975<br />
| term_end2=1999<br />
| preceded2=[[H. Welborn Ayres]]<br />
| succeeded2=<br />
|office3=Chief Judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal<br />
|term_start3=1990<br />
|term_end3=1999<br />
| constituency2 =Bienville, Bossier, Caldwell, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Union, Webster, and Winn parishes<br />
| birth_date=July 18, 1929<br />
| birth_place=Jonesville, Catahoula Parish<br />
| death_date=April 27, 2003 (aged 73)<br />
| death_place=<br />
| death_cause=[[Cancer]]<br />
| residence=[[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], Webster Parish<br />
| resting_place=Gardens of Memory Cemetery in Minden<br />
| occupation]]; [[Judge]]<br />
| spouse=Rebecca Campbell Marvin (married 1956-2003, his death) (died 2026)<br />
| children =Melissa Marvin Brown<br><br />
Michele Marvin Simoneaux<br><br />
[[Schuyler Marvin|John Schuyler Marvin]]<br><br />
Mary Margaret Marvin Johnson<br />
| relations=Foster Campbell (wife's cousin)<br />
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana Tech University]]<br><br />
[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center<br />
| religion=[[United Methodist]]<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]<br />
| branch=[[United States Air Force]]<br />
| battles=[[Korean War]]}}<br />
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'''Charles Allen Marvin''', known also as '''Corky Marvin''' (July 18, 1929 &ndash; April 27, 2003),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Marvin&GSfn=Charles&GSmn=A&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1168&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=91162259&df=all&|title=Charles A. "Corky" Marvin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 8, 2022}}</ref> was a district attorney and a state circuit court [[judge]] in North [[Louisiana]] from 1971 until his retirement in 1999.<br />
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==Background==<br />
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Marvin was born to Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler L. Marvin in Jonesville in Catahoula Parish in northeastern [[Louisiana]]. He studied [[journalism]] at [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], where he was the outstanding graduate in his field and an editor of the student newspaper, ''The Tech Talk.'' He was later involved in fund-raising drives for Louisiana Tech.<ref>"Marvin and Moore Will Head Local Louisiana Tech Fund Drive," ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],', May 5, 1969, p. 3.</ref> Marvin then worked for a year as editor of the weekly newspaper ''The Delhi Dispatch'' in Delhi in Richland Parish], east of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]]. After service in the [[United States Air Force]] during the [[Korean War]],<ref name=mpressherald>"LSU Law School recognizes Judge C.A. Marvin", ''Minden Press-Herald,'' June 5, 1990, p. 10.</ref><br />
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Marvin attended the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]], from which he graduated after three years of study in 1957. In 1989, Louisiana Tech named him a "Distinguished Alumnus".<ref name=obit/> In 1962, Marvin became an original board member of the Louisiana Tech Foundation, along with another Minden attorney, Luther Moore, and later Caddo Parish [[Sheriff]] [[Donald E. Hathaway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latech.edu/administration/policies-and-procedures/3101.php|title=Policy 3101 - Introduction, Foundation Programs and Operations, and Future|date=August 26, 2000|publisher=latech.edu|accessdate=June 23, 2014}}</ref> In 1990, the LSU Law Center named Marvin an honorary member of the Order of the Coif and inducted him into its hall of fame.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogybuff.com/la/la-webster-obits5.htm|title=Charles Marvin|publisher=genealogybuff.com|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><ref name=mpressherald/><br />
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In 1956, Marvin married the former Rebecca Campbell (September 14, 1935 - August 30, 2026) of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] and began his practice of law there with the firm Campbell, Campbell and Marvin, later Campbell, Campbell, Marvin, and Johnson. The first "Campbell" in the firm was John T. Campbell (1903-1993), Rebecca's father, who was also a former clerk of the Louisiana State Senate].<ref>"Local attorney to be honored," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' March 20, 1992, p. 1.</ref> The second "Campbell," Cecil P. Campbell (1909-1996), was her uncle. Her younger brother is former state senator and veteran Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Lonnie Campbell, Jr., a former candidate for governor and the U.S. Senate in 2016. During his days as a practicing attorney, Charles Marvin was president of the Minden [[Chamber of Commerce]], a member of the local [[Selective Service]] board, and the commander of the Wiley-Pevy American Legion post.<ref>"Marvin Elected Commander of American Legion Post," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' July 12, 1967, p. 1.</ref> He was also affiliated with the veterans organization the Forty and Eight.<ref name=obit/><br />
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==Political and legal career==<br />
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A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Marvin in 1966 ran unsuccessfully for the position of Minden and Ward I city judge. He was handily defeated by the incumbent [[Cecil C. Lowe]], who was elected in 1976 as a member of the 26th Judicial District Court, which includes Bossier and Webster parishes. Lowe received 2,952 votes to Marvin's 1,530; Marvin carried only one precinct in that race.<ref>''The Minden Press-Herald,'' August 15, 1966, pp. 1-2.</ref>The city judgeship was subsequently held by John Cecil Campbell, Mrs. Marvin's cousin.<br />
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In November 1967, Marvin withdrew from a runoff election for the Webster Parish Democratic Executive Committee, when he finished sixth among ten candidates for five places on the board. He deferred to the fifth-place candidate, B. James Bryan of Springhill, in northern Webster Parish.<ref>"Marvin Withdraws from Runoff Race with Bryan," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' November 16, 1967, p. 1.</ref><br />
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In November 1971, Marvin was elected to succeed John Bailey Benton, Jr. (1924-2009) of Minden, the interim DA of the 26th Judicial District. The position had opened when Louis H. Padgett, Jr. (1913-1980), resigned to run successfully for the state district court.<ref name=mphapril>"Marvin seeks judgeship; election se,'' ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' April 9, 1975, p. 1.</ref> Benton won in Bossier Parish by fifty-six votes but was overwhelmed by Marvin's majority in Webster Parish.<ref>"Marvin Defeats Benton," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' November 8, 1971, p. 1.</ref> Marvin then won the full term in the position in 1972.<ref name=mphapril/><br />
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In 1973, DA Marvin pursued originally fourteen counts of public bribery against [[George Nattin, Sr.]], who stepped down as [[mayor]] of [[Bossier City]] after twelve years in office, and Nattin's son, [[George Nattin, Jr.]] Former Mayor Nattin was subsequently acquitted of the charges.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrt.com/import/article_ab13b936-ac7a-5805-af4f-1fab64358698.html|title=Former Bossier City mayor dead at 83|publisher=''The Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram''|date=April 26, 2002|accessdate=December 21, 2014}}</ref><br />
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In 1975, Marvin resigned as DA upon his election to the Second Circuit Court of Appeal]], based in [[Shreveport]]. Marvin defeated a fellow Democrat, [[Fred W. Jones, Jr.]], a native of Rayville in Richland Parish and a then district judge in Ruston.<ref>"Jones will seek judgeship," ''The Minden Press-Herald,'' April 2, 1975, p. 1.</ref> In the nine-parish race, Marvin polled 16,106 votes; Jones, 14,521. There was no [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate. Marvin succeeded the retiring Judge [[H. Welborn Ayres]], a native of [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]], who retired at the mandatory age of seventy-five.<ref>''The Minden Press-Herald,'' May 15, 1975, p. 1.</ref><br />
Jones was subsequently elected to the circuit court in 1980 and became a colleague of Judge Marvin for the next decade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasc.org/community_outreach/in_memoriam/jones_fred.asp|title=In Memoriam: Retired Judge Fred W. Jones, Jr.|publisher=lasc.org|accessdate=June 20, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Thereafter, Marvin was elected to full ten-year terms on the court in 1978 and 1988, both times without opposition. From 1990 until his retirement in 1999, Marvin was the chief judge of the circuit court. He was frequently invited to serve as a pro tempore justice for the Louisiana Supreme Court. He was also a president of the Council of Chief Judges of the United States. He was the author of numerous law review articles and served as an adjunct professor at the LSU Law Center, the historically black rambling State University, and Bossier Parish Community College. For six terms, he was president of the Webster Parish Bar Association and a member of the National Trial Lawyers Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasc.org/community_outreach/in_memoriam/marvin_corky.asp|title=In Memoriam: Retired Second Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Charles A. "Corky" Marvin|publisher=lasc.org|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><br />
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Along with bail bondsman [[Angelo Roppolo]] and others, Judge Marvin one of the founding members of the Shreveport Red Mass Society, which holds an annual service for lawyers, judges, and law enforcement personnel to highlight the connection between faith in [[God]] and the rule of law. The Red Mass is held at Holy Trinity [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] Church in downtown Shreveport.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.judgescottcrichton.com/tributetoangeloroppolo|title=Beyond the City Limits: The Illustrious Life and Legacy of "Nickel Politician" Angelo Roppolo|date=July 9, 2012|publisher=judgescottcrichton.com|author=Scott Crichton|accessdate=November 2, 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life and legacy==<br />
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Judge Marvin was a trustee and Sunday School teacher at the Minden First [[United Methodist]] Church. He was also a trustee of the Louisiana Methodist Foundation and a member of the Masonic lodge and the Shriners.<ref name=obit/><br />
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There are four Marvin children. Melissa Brown (born 1958) is the wife of Gary Lamar Brown (born 1954), whose parents, Newton and Erlene Nealy Brown, were murdered in their home in Dixie Inn west of Minden on Christmas Eve, 1982, by Jimmy L. Glass (1962-1987) and Jimmy Charles Wingo (1952-1987), a native of Jackson County, [[Arkansas]], and a former Boy Scout.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54265863/jimmy-charles-wingo|title=Jimmy Charles Wingo|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 8, 2022}}</ref> Glass petitioned unsuccessfully to the [[United States Supreme Court]] on the premise that his pending 1987 execution was "cruel and unusual punishment."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141175716/jimmy-l-glass?msclkid=1815accecf0211ecab6f45936331165b|title=Jimmy L. Glass|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 8, 2022}}</ref>The murders occurred only a few months after Melissa and Gary Brown were wed in Minden. The tragic case attracted national attention because of an upswing in executions in Louisiana at the time and a debate over the constitutionality of the [[death penalty]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/16/us/louisiana-executes-2d-man-in-slaying-of-couple.html|title=Louisiana Executes Second Man in Slaying of Couple, June 16, 1987|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eunicetoday.com/brown-fusilier-announce-engagement|title=Brown, Fusilier announce engagement, May 3, 2013|publisher=''Eunice Today''|accessdate=November 26, 2013}}</ref><br />
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Second daughter Michele Simoneaux and her husband, Rodney J. Simoneaux (both born 1959), reside inBelle Rose in Assumption Parish in south Louisiana. Son [[Schuyler Marvin|John Schuyler Marvin]] is the husband of the former Jodi Lane Comeaux. The youngest Marvin daughter, Mary Margaret, is the wife of Bruce Johnson. There were twelve grandchildren at the time of the judge's death.<ref name=obit/><br />
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Schuyler Marvin is the current DA of Bossier and Webster parishes, having first been elected in November 2002, some five months before his father's death. He was unopposed for a second six-year term in 2008. The junior Marvin is a Democrat-turned-Republican.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.26thda.org/|title=J. Schuyler Marvin, District Attorney|publisher=26thda.org|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref><br />
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Judge Marvin died of [[cancer]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nakedownership.com/archives/cat_shreveport.html|title=Former 2nd Circuit Chief Judge Dies at 73|date=April 28, 2003|publisher=nakedownership.com|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref> at the age of seventy-three. Services were held on April 29, 2003, at First United Methodist Church in Minden. He is interred there at Gardens of Memory Cemetery.<ref name=obit/><br />
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In 2015, Marvin was posthumously inducted into the [[Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]] in Winnfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9728:corky-marvin-elected-to-hall-of-fame&catid=34:local-news&Itemid=69l=|title='Corky' Marvin elected to hall of fame|publisher=''The Minden Press-Herald''|accessdate=June 25, 2014}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Korean War]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=William_E._Bennett&diff=2202263William E. Bennett2026-08-24T00:03:15Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
|name=William Edward "Bill" Bennett<br><br />
(Political science professor<br>at Campbellsville University in Kentucky)<br />
|image=<br />
|birth_date=December 24, 1942<br />
|birth_place=[[Colorado]]<br />
|death_date=April 3, 2006 (aged 63)<br />
|death_place=Campbellsville, Taylor County<br>[[Kentucky]]<br />
|reigion=[[Baptist]]<br />
|spouse=Estella Carolyn Davis Bennett<br><br />
Children:<br> Bryan Edward Bennett<br><br />
Aaron Coy Bennett <br />
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]<br />
|branch=[[United States Army]]<br><br />
[[Vietnam War]]<br />
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:Not to be confused with ''[[Bill Bennett]]'', the [[Secretary of Education]] in the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration<br />
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'''William Edward Bennett''', also known as '''Bill Bennett''' (December 24, 1942 &ndash; April 3, 2006),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/william-bennett/e47107387020|title=William Bennett of Campbellsville, KY|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref> was from 1970 until his death a [[political science]] [[professor]] at [[Campbellsville University]] in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]].<br />
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==Background and career==<br />
A native of [[Colorado]], Bennett graduated from CU in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. He received his Master of Arts in political science in 1971 from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green and his [[Ph.D.]] in 1982 from the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg, [[Mississippi]]. Bennett came to CU the year after [[W. R. Davenport|William Randolph "Randy" Davenport]] became the college president in 1969. In his thirty-six years at CU, Bennett taught some six thousand students. Called a true “Christian professor," Bennett was a member of the Little Vine Primitive Baptist Church in Campbellsville. In 1996, he was named the CU "distinguished professor."<ref name=bio/><br />
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His colleagues at Campbellsville included [[Bobby R. Himes]] and [[Gilbert R. Tredway]]. Another colleague, [[Damon R. Eubank]], professor and chaiman of the CU Division of Social Science, was a student of Bennett’s and later a colleague when Eubank came to CU to teach history. Eubank recalled how Bennett "could engage students, and he brought passion to teaching. He was an idealist who believed we could change the world through politics.” Eubank further described Bennett as a “teacher and lover of learning" who was "skilled,” “gifted,” “loved by students,” “eager to teach and have his students learn,” “great personal friend,” “dedicated and talented teacher,” “always going the extra mile,” “loyal and committed,” and “competitive.”<ref name=bio/><br />
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Bennett served in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Vietnam War]]. For a time, he was an elected member of the Taylor County School Board; among his school board colleagues was Lillian Bruner Clark (1931-2015), wife of [[Robert S. Clark]], the CU vice-president for academic affairs from 1976 to 1988. Bennett served as president of Taylor County Academic Boosters and was a public lecturer for the Kentucky Endowment for the Humanities. He was a member of the Kentucky, Southern and National political science associations, the National Association of Social Science Educators and Pi Gamma Mu, the history society of the social sciences. He was also involved in local and state politics and raised fruit in his spare time.<ref name=bio/><br />
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Bennett often told his students that they could be taught merely by sitting still, but learning requires an active role on one's education.<ref name=bio/> He died at the age of sixty-three in Campbellsville of lung cancer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.campbellsville.edu/about/files/2016/12/cvillianspr06-s60fcj.pdf|title=Professor William Bennett dies|publisher=Campbellsville.edu|author=Joan C. McKinney and Maegan Kennedy|date=May 2006|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref> and is interred at Chappell Cemetery in Knifley in Adair County, Kentucky.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bennett&GSfn=William&GSby=1942&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=2006&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=91547451&df=all&<br />
|title=Dr. William Edward Bennett|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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In 2012, Bennett was posthumously honored by the Kentucky Political Science Association during the group's 51st annual meeting at CU. John Edward Chowning, the since retired vice president for church and external relations and former executive assistant to the CU president and the 2011-12 president of KPSA, made the presentation to Bennett's widow, the former Estella Carolyn Davis; son, Bryan Edward Bennett, a Campbellsville [[attorney]], and grandson, Will Bennett. A second Bennett son is Aaron Coy Bennett, also of Campbellsville.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.campbellsville.edu/about/2012/03/28/campbellsville-university-honors-the-late-dr-bill-bennett/|title=Campbellsville University honors the late Dr. Bill Bennett|publisher=Campbellsville.edu|date=March 28, 2012|author=Joan McKinney|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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A scholarship named in Bennett's honor is available annually at CU to a deserving student studying political science.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adaircountytoday.com/local-news/campbellsville-university-honors-its-students-and-faculty-at-awards-day-ceremony|title=Campbellsville University honors its students and faculty|publisher=''Adair County Today''|date=May 5, 2017|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:United States Army]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=William_E._Bennett&diff=2202262William E. Bennett2026-08-24T00:02:44Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
|name=William Edward "Bill" Bennett<br><br />
(Political science professor<br>at Campbellsville University in Kentucky)<br />
|image=<br />
|birth_date=December 24, 1942<br />
|birth_place=[[Colorado]]<br />
|death_date=April 3, 2006 (aged 63)<br />
|death_place=Campbellsville, Taylor County<br>[[Kentucky]]<br />
|reigion=[[Baptist]]<br />
|spouse=Estella Carolyn Davis Bennett<br><br />
Children:<br> Bryan Edward Bennett<br><br />
Aaron Coy Bennett <br />
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]<br />
|branch=[[United States Army]]<br />
|battles/wars=[[Vietnam War]]<br />
}}<br />
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:Not to be confused with ''[[Bill Bennett]]'', the [[Secretary of Education]] in the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration<br />
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'''William Edward Bennett''', also known as '''Bill Bennett''' (December 24, 1942 &ndash; April 3, 2006),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/william-bennett/e47107387020|title=William Bennett of Campbellsville, KY|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref> was from 1970 until his death a [[political science]] [[professor]] at [[Campbellsville University]] in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]].<br />
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==Background and career==<br />
A native of [[Colorado]], Bennett graduated from CU in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. He received his Master of Arts in political science in 1971 from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green and his [[Ph.D.]] in 1982 from the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg, [[Mississippi]]. Bennett came to CU the year after [[W. R. Davenport|William Randolph "Randy" Davenport]] became the college president in 1969. In his thirty-six years at CU, Bennett taught some six thousand students. Called a true “Christian professor," Bennett was a member of the Little Vine Primitive Baptist Church in Campbellsville. In 1996, he was named the CU "distinguished professor."<ref name=bio/><br />
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His colleagues at Campbellsville included [[Bobby R. Himes]] and [[Gilbert R. Tredway]]. Another colleague, [[Damon R. Eubank]], professor and chaiman of the CU Division of Social Science, was a student of Bennett’s and later a colleague when Eubank came to CU to teach history. Eubank recalled how Bennett "could engage students, and he brought passion to teaching. He was an idealist who believed we could change the world through politics.” Eubank further described Bennett as a “teacher and lover of learning" who was "skilled,” “gifted,” “loved by students,” “eager to teach and have his students learn,” “great personal friend,” “dedicated and talented teacher,” “always going the extra mile,” “loyal and committed,” and “competitive.”<ref name=bio/><br />
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Bennett served in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Vietnam War]]. For a time, he was an elected member of the Taylor County School Board; among his school board colleagues was Lillian Bruner Clark (1931-2015), wife of [[Robert S. Clark]], the CU vice-president for academic affairs from 1976 to 1988. Bennett served as president of Taylor County Academic Boosters and was a public lecturer for the Kentucky Endowment for the Humanities. He was a member of the Kentucky, Southern and National political science associations, the National Association of Social Science Educators and Pi Gamma Mu, the history society of the social sciences. He was also involved in local and state politics and raised fruit in his spare time.<ref name=bio/><br />
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Bennett often told his students that they could be taught merely by sitting still, but learning requires an active role on one's education.<ref name=bio/> He died at the age of sixty-three in Campbellsville of lung cancer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.campbellsville.edu/about/files/2016/12/cvillianspr06-s60fcj.pdf|title=Professor William Bennett dies|publisher=Campbellsville.edu|author=Joan C. McKinney and Maegan Kennedy|date=May 2006|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref> and is interred at Chappell Cemetery in Knifley in Adair County, Kentucky.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bennett&GSfn=William&GSby=1942&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=2006&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=91547451&df=all&<br />
|title=Dr. William Edward Bennett|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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In 2012, Bennett was posthumously honored by the Kentucky Political Science Association during the group's 51st annual meeting at CU. John Edward Chowning, the since retired vice president for church and external relations and former executive assistant to the CU president and the 2011-12 president of KPSA, made the presentation to Bennett's widow, the former Estella Carolyn Davis; son, Bryan Edward Bennett, a Campbellsville [[attorney]], and grandson, Will Bennett. A second Bennett son is Aaron Coy Bennett, also of Campbellsville.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.campbellsville.edu/about/2012/03/28/campbellsville-university-honors-the-late-dr-bill-bennett/|title=Campbellsville University honors the late Dr. Bill Bennett|publisher=Campbellsville.edu|date=March 28, 2012|author=Joan McKinney|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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A scholarship named in Bennett's honor is available annually at CU to a deserving student studying political science.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adaircountytoday.com/local-news/campbellsville-university-honors-its-students-and-faculty-at-awards-day-ceremony|title=Campbellsville University honors its students and faculty|publisher=''Adair County Today''|date=May 5, 2017|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:United States Army]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=William_E._Bennett&diff=2202261William E. Bennett2026-08-24T00:02:22Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
|name=William Edward "Bill" Bennett<br><br />
(Political science professor<br>at Campbellsville University in Kentucky)<br />
|image=<br />
|birth_date=December 24, 1942<br />
|birth_place=[[Colorado]]<br />
|death_date=April 3, 2006 (aged 63)<br />
|death_place=Campbellsville, Taylor County<br>[[Kentucky]]<br />
|reigion=[[Baptist]]<br />
|spouse=Estella Carolyn Davis Bennett<br><br />
Children:<br> Bryan Edward Bennett<br><br />
Aaron Coy Bennett <br />
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]<br />
|branch=[[United States Army]]<br />
|wars=[[Vietname War]]<br />
}}<br />
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:Not to be confused with ''[[Bill Bennett]]'', the [[Secretary of Education]] in the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration<br />
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'''William Edward Bennett''', also known as '''Bill Bennett''' (December 24, 1942 &ndash; April 3, 2006),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/william-bennett/e47107387020|title=William Bennett of Campbellsville, KY|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref> was from 1970 until his death a [[political science]] [[professor]] at [[Campbellsville University]] in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]].<br />
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==Background and career==<br />
A native of [[Colorado]], Bennett graduated from CU in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. He received his Master of Arts in political science in 1971 from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green and his [[Ph.D.]] in 1982 from the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg, [[Mississippi]]. Bennett came to CU the year after [[W. R. Davenport|William Randolph "Randy" Davenport]] became the college president in 1969. In his thirty-six years at CU, Bennett taught some six thousand students. Called a true “Christian professor," Bennett was a member of the Little Vine Primitive Baptist Church in Campbellsville. In 1996, he was named the CU "distinguished professor."<ref name=bio/><br />
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His colleagues at Campbellsville included [[Bobby R. Himes]] and [[Gilbert R. Tredway]]. Another colleague, [[Damon R. Eubank]], professor and chaiman of the CU Division of Social Science, was a student of Bennett’s and later a colleague when Eubank came to CU to teach history. Eubank recalled how Bennett "could engage students, and he brought passion to teaching. He was an idealist who believed we could change the world through politics.” Eubank further described Bennett as a “teacher and lover of learning" who was "skilled,” “gifted,” “loved by students,” “eager to teach and have his students learn,” “great personal friend,” “dedicated and talented teacher,” “always going the extra mile,” “loyal and committed,” and “competitive.”<ref name=bio/><br />
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Bennett served in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Vietnam War]]. For a time, he was an elected member of the Taylor County School Board; among his school board colleagues was Lillian Bruner Clark (1931-2015), wife of [[Robert S. Clark]], the CU vice-president for academic affairs from 1976 to 1988. Bennett served as president of Taylor County Academic Boosters and was a public lecturer for the Kentucky Endowment for the Humanities. He was a member of the Kentucky, Southern and National political science associations, the National Association of Social Science Educators and Pi Gamma Mu, the history society of the social sciences. He was also involved in local and state politics and raised fruit in his spare time.<ref name=bio/><br />
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Bennett often told his students that they could be taught merely by sitting still, but learning requires an active role on one's education.<ref name=bio/> He died at the age of sixty-three in Campbellsville of lung cancer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.campbellsville.edu/about/files/2016/12/cvillianspr06-s60fcj.pdf|title=Professor William Bennett dies|publisher=Campbellsville.edu|author=Joan C. McKinney and Maegan Kennedy|date=May 2006|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref> and is interred at Chappell Cemetery in Knifley in Adair County, Kentucky.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bennett&GSfn=William&GSby=1942&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=2006&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=91547451&df=all&<br />
|title=Dr. William Edward Bennett|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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In 2012, Bennett was posthumously honored by the Kentucky Political Science Association during the group's 51st annual meeting at CU. John Edward Chowning, the since retired vice president for church and external relations and former executive assistant to the CU president and the 2011-12 president of KPSA, made the presentation to Bennett's widow, the former Estella Carolyn Davis; son, Bryan Edward Bennett, a Campbellsville [[attorney]], and grandson, Will Bennett. A second Bennett son is Aaron Coy Bennett, also of Campbellsville.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.campbellsville.edu/about/2012/03/28/campbellsville-university-honors-the-late-dr-bill-bennett/|title=Campbellsville University honors the late Dr. Bill Bennett|publisher=Campbellsville.edu|date=March 28, 2012|author=Joan McKinney|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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A scholarship named in Bennett's honor is available annually at CU to a deserving student studying political science.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adaircountytoday.com/local-news/campbellsville-university-honors-its-students-and-faculty-at-awards-day-ceremony|title=Campbellsville University honors its students and faculty|publisher=''Adair County Today''|date=May 5, 2017|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:United States Army]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=William_E._Bennett&diff=2202259William E. Bennett2026-08-24T00:01:12Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
|name=William Edward "Bill" Bennett<br><br />
(Political science professor<br>at Campbellsville University in Kentucky)<br />
|image=<br />
|birth_date=December 24, 1942<br />
|birth_place=[[Colorado]]<br />
|death_date=April 3, 2006 (aged 63)<br />
|death_place=Campbellsville, Taylor County<br>[[Kentucky]]<br />
|reigion=[[Baptist]]<br />
|spouse=Estella Carolyn Davis Bennett<br><br />
Children:<br> Bryan Edward Bennett<br><br />
Aaron Coy Bennett <br />
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]<br />
}}<br />
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:Not to be confused with ''[[Bill Bennett]]'', the [[Secretary of Education]] in the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration<br />
<br />
'''William Edward Bennett''', also known as '''Bill Bennett''' (December 24, 1942 &ndash; April 3, 2006),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/william-bennett/e47107387020|title=William Bennett of Campbellsville, KY|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref> was from 1970 until his death a [[political science]] [[professor]] at [[Campbellsville University]] in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]].<br />
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==Background and career==<br />
A native of [[Colorado]], Bennett graduated from CU in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. He received his Master of Arts in political science in 1971 from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green and his [[Ph.D.]] in 1982 from the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg, [[Mississippi]]. Bennett came to CU the year after [[W. R. Davenport|William Randolph "Randy" Davenport]] became the college president in 1969. In his thirty-six years at CU, Bennett taught some six thousand students. Called a true “Christian professor," Bennett was a member of the Little Vine Primitive Baptist Church in Campbellsville. In 1996, he was named the CU "distinguished professor."<ref name=bio/><br />
<br />
His colleagues at Campbellsville included [[Bobby R. Himes]] and [[Gilbert R. Tredway]]. Another colleague, [[Damon R. Eubank]], professor and chaiman of the CU Division of Social Science, was a student of Bennett’s and later a colleague when Eubank came to CU to teach history. Eubank recalled how Bennett "could engage students, and he brought passion to teaching. He was an idealist who believed we could change the world through politics.” Eubank further described Bennett as a “teacher and lover of learning" who was "skilled,” “gifted,” “loved by students,” “eager to teach and have his students learn,” “great personal friend,” “dedicated and talented teacher,” “always going the extra mile,” “loyal and committed,” and “competitive.”<ref name=bio/><br />
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Bennett served in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Vietnam War]]. For a time, he was an elected member of the Taylor County School Board; among his school board colleagues was Lillian Bruner Clark (1931-2015), wife of [[Robert S. Clark]], the CU vice-president for academic affairs from 1976 to 1988. Bennett served as president of Taylor County Academic Boosters and was a public lecturer for the Kentucky Endowment for the Humanities. He was a member of the Kentucky, Southern and National political science associations, the National Association of Social Science Educators and Pi Gamma Mu, the history society of the social sciences. He was also involved in local and state politics and raised fruit in his spare time.<ref name=bio/><br />
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Bennett often told his students that they could be taught merely by sitting still, but learning requires an active role on one's education.<ref name=bio/> He died at the age of sixty-three in Campbellsville of lung cancer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.campbellsville.edu/about/files/2016/12/cvillianspr06-s60fcj.pdf|title=Professor William Bennett dies|publisher=Campbellsville.edu|author=Joan C. McKinney and Maegan Kennedy|date=May 2006|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref> and is interred at Chappell Cemetery in Knifley in Adair County, Kentucky.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bennett&GSfn=William&GSby=1942&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=2006&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=91547451&df=all&<br />
|title=Dr. William Edward Bennett|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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In 2012, Bennett was posthumously honored by the Kentucky Political Science Association during the group's 51st annual meeting at CU. John Edward Chowning, the since retired vice president for church and external relations and former executive assistant to the CU president and the 2011-12 president of KPSA, made the presentation to Bennett's widow, the former Estella Carolyn Davis; son, Bryan Edward Bennett, a Campbellsville [[attorney]], and grandson, Will Bennett. A second Bennett son is Aaron Coy Bennett, also of Campbellsville.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.campbellsville.edu/about/2012/03/28/campbellsville-university-honors-the-late-dr-bill-bennett/|title=Campbellsville University honors the late Dr. Bill Bennett|publisher=Campbellsville.edu|date=March 28, 2012|author=Joan McKinney|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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A scholarship named in Bennett's honor is available annually at CU to a deserving student studying political science.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adaircountytoday.com/local-news/campbellsville-university-honors-its-students-and-faculty-at-awards-day-ceremony|title=Campbellsville University honors its students and faculty|publisher=''Adair County Today''|date=May 5, 2017|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:United States Army]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=William_E._Bennett&diff=2202258William E. Bennett2026-08-24T00:00:25Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
|name=William Edward "Bill" Bennett<br><br />
(Political science professor<br>at Campbellsville University in Kentucky)<br />
|image=<br />
|birth_date=December 24, 1942<br />
|birth_place=[[Colorado]]<br />
|death_date=April 3, 2006 (aged 63)<br />
|death_place=Campbellsville, Taylor County<br>[[Kentucky]]<br />
|reigion=[[Baptist]]<br />
|spouse=Estella Carolyn Davis Bennett<br><br />
Children:<br> Bryan Edward Bennett<br><br />
Aaron Coy Bennett <br />
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]<br />
}}<br />
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:Not to be confused with ''[[Bill Bennett]]'', the [[Secretary of Education]] in the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration<br />
<br />
'''William Edward Bennett''', also known as '''Bill Bennett''' (December 24, 1942 &ndash; April 3, 2006),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/william-bennett/e47107387020|title=William Bennett of Campbellsville, KY|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref> was from 1970 until his death a [[political science]] [[professor]] at [[Campbellsville University]] in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]].<br />
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A native of [[Colorado]], Bennett graduated from CU in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. He received his Master of Arts in political science in 1971 from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green and his [[Ph.D.]] in 1982 from the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg, [[Mississippi]]. Bennett came to CU the year after [[W. R. Davenport|William Randolph "Randy" Davenport]] became the college president in 1969.<br />
In his thirty-six years at CU, Bennett taught some six thousand students. Called a true “Christian professor," Bennett was a member of the Little Vine Primitive Baptist Church in Campbellsville. In 1996, he was named the CU "distinguished professor."<ref name=bio/><br />
<br />
His colleagues at Campbellsville included [[Bobby R. Himes]] and [[Gilbert R. Tredway]]. Another colleague, [[Damon R. Eubank]], professor and chaiman of the CU Division of Social Science, was a student of Bennett’s and later a colleague when Eubank came to CU to teach history. Eubank recalled how Bennett "could engage students, and he brought passion to teaching. He was an idealist who believed we could change the world through politics.” Eubank further described Bennett as a “teacher and lover of learning" who was "skilled,” “gifted,” “loved by students,” “eager to teach and have his students learn,” “great personal friend,” “dedicated and talented teacher,” “always going the extra mile,” “loyal and committed,” and “competitive.”<ref name=bio/><br />
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Bennett served in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Vietnam War]]. For a time, he was an elected member of the Taylor County School Board; among his school board colleagues was Lillian Bruner Clark (1931-2015), wife of [[Robert S. Clark]], the CU vice-president for academic affairs from 1976 to 1988. Bennett served as president of Taylor County Academic Boosters and was a public lecturer for the Kentucky Endowment for the Humanities. He was a member of the Kentucky, Southern and National political science associations, the National Association of Social Science Educators and Pi Gamma Mu, the history society of the social sciences. He was also involved in local and state politics and raised fruit in his spare time.<ref name=bio/><br />
<br />
Bennett often told his students that they could be taught merely by sitting still, but learning requires an active role on one's education.<ref name=bio/> He died at the age of sixty-three in Campbellsville of lung cancer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.campbellsville.edu/about/files/2016/12/cvillianspr06-s60fcj.pdf|title=Professor William Bennett dies|publisher=Campbellsville.edu|author=Joan C. McKinney and Maegan Kennedy|date=May 2006|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref> and is interred at Chappell Cemetery in Knifley in Adair County, Kentucky.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bennett&GSfn=William&GSby=1942&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=2006&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=91547451&df=all&<br />
|title=Dr. William Edward Bennett|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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In 2012, Bennett was posthumously honored by the Kentucky Political Science Association during the group's 51st annual meeting at CU. John Edward Chowning, the since retired vice president for church and external relations and former executive assistant to the CU president and the 2011-12 president of KPSA, made the presentation to Bennett's widow, the former Estella Carolyn Davis; son, Bryan Edward Bennett, a Campbellsville [[attorney]], and grandson, Will Bennett. A second Bennett son is Aaron Coy Bennett, also of Campbellsville.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.campbellsville.edu/about/2012/03/28/campbellsville-university-honors-the-late-dr-bill-bennett/|title=Campbellsville University honors the late Dr. Bill Bennett|publisher=Campbellsville.edu|date=March 28, 2012|author=Joan McKinney|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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A scholarship named in Bennett's honor is available annually at CU to a deserving student studying political science.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adaircountytoday.com/local-news/campbellsville-university-honors-its-students-and-faculty-at-awards-day-ceremony|title=Campbellsville University honors its students and faculty|publisher=''Adair County Today''|date=May 5, 2017|accessdate=December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:United States Army]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Gilbert_R._Tredway&diff=2202257Gilbert R. Tredway2026-08-23T23:59:42Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
| name=Gilbert Riley Tredway<br />
(Historian at Campbellsville University in Kentucky) <br />
| birth_date=October 11, 1922<br />
| birth_place=Dubois County, [[Indiana]]<br><br />
Resident of French Lick, Indiana<br />
| death_date=January 14, 2019 (aged 96)<br><br />
'''Resting place''': <br><br />
Cuzco Cemetery, Dubois County, Indiana<br />
|spouse=Mary Antonnette Canzoneri Tredway (died 1978)<br><br />
'''Children''':<br><br />
Sarah Pearl Tredway Bault-Stomps (deceased)<br><br />
George Rodney Tredway<br><br />
'''Parents''':<br><br />
George R. and Pearl C. Tredway<br><br />
'''Alma mater''':<br><br />
[[Indiana University]]<br />
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]<br />
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]<br />
| branch=[[United States Army]]<br>Pacific Theater of Operations<br />
| rank=Aircraft gunner<br />
| awards=[[Purple Heart]]<br><br />
Distinguished Flying Cross Medal<br><br />
Air Medal<br><br />
American Campaign Medal<br><br />
and Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal<br />
}}<br />
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'''Gilbert Riley Tredway''' (born October 11, 1922 &ndash; January 14, 2019)<ref name=tredway>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75516581/gilbert-riley-tredway|title=Gilbert Riley Tredway|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 13, 2020}}</ref> was a [[historian]] from [[Indiana]] and [[Kentucky]], who has authored two books relating to the [[American Civil War]].<br />
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==Background==<br />
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Tredway was born in Dubois County in southern Indiana to George Riley Tredway (1883–1958) and Pearl C. Tredway (1886–1979)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71162247/pearl-c_-tredway|title=Pearl C. Tredway|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 13, 2020}}</ref> and reared there in Cuzco. He served in the [[United States Army]] in [[World War II]],<ref name=tredway/> having been stationed first in the [[Panama Canal Zone]] and [[Ecuador]]<ref name=statement>Statement of Gilbert R. Tredway, Jasper, Indiana, March 1, 2011.</ref> before he volunteered for action in the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] Theater of Operations.<br />
An aircraft gunner on a B-17,<ref name=tredway/> Tredway was wounded while protecting a convoy in [[New Guinea]] and received the [[Purple Heart]]. After the war, he received all three of his degrees from [[Indiana University]] in Bloomington. Thereafter he taught for a total of eight years at Mitchell (Indiana) High School in Lawrence County]], also in southern Indiana, and in [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]].<ref name=statement/><br />
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==Studies of the American Civil War==<br />
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Tredway taught history and [[geography]] at [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Campbellsville University]] in Campbellsville in Taylor County in central Kentucky, when that institution was still known as Campbellsville College. His colleagues included [[Bobby R. Himes]] and [[William E. Bennett]] in history and political science, respectively. He was on the faculty of Campbellsville College from 1959 to 1963, when he accepted a position at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. Two years later in 1966, he returned to Campbellsville, where he remained until his retirement in the spring of 1984.<ref name=statement/><br />
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His ''Democratic Opposition to the Lincoln Administration in Indiana,'' published in 1973,<ref>{{cite book|url=http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/1/197.extract|author=Gilbert R. Tredway|title=Democratic Opposition to the Lincoln Administration in Indiana|publisher=[[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]]: Indiana Historical Bureau|date=1973|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref> stems from his [[Ph.D.]] dissertation, which he completed eleven years earlier in 1962 from Indiana University. The work is a study of the northern [[Democratic Party|Democrats]], some of whom were [[Copperheads]] demanding a negotiated settlement of the war or an immediate ending of hostilities.<ref name=tredway>{{cite web|url=http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/reference/cshm/ohrc039.html#10|title=Interviewee: Gilbert R. Tredway|publisher=dlib.indiana.edu|accessdate=March 1, 2011}}</ref><br />
Tredway found that the judge advocate general in some of the cases against Democrats accused of undermining the war effort had "protected prosecution witnesses, browbeat defense witnesses, practiced brazen partisanship, and even accepted third-hand testimony."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CopQakAajYQC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=Gilbert+R.+Tredway&source=bl&ots=cTp8ITFX48&sig=iLNKIapYmc3HhxDLwUinjKd6yqY&hl=en&ei=uhBtTaDzC8H2gAeTgPWVBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Gilbert%20R.%20Tredway&f=false|author=Michal R. Belknap|title=American Political Trials|publisher=Praeger Publishers|pages= 116|ISBN=0-313-28687-6|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref> <br />
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Tredway's research reveals that the large majority of Indiana Democrats were not Copperheads, the best known of which was [[U.S. Representative]] Clement Vallandigham of Ohio, but were loyal to the Union and desired national restoration. A [[Princeton University]] thesis from 2005 finds that secession had been painful to most people in Indiana, whose agricultural economy depended heavily on southern commerce and on the [[Mississippi River]], at least before the rise of [[railroad]]s, as a way to bring commerce to market. "Formation of the Confederacy and the commencement of hostilities thus threatened both the livelihood and the identity of many in Indiana," writes Elisheva R. Coleman in her study entitled ''Call It Peace or Call It Treason.''<ref>{{cite book|url=http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/awards/2005-Coleman_Thesis.pdf|author=Elisheva R. Coleman|title=Call It Peace Or Call It Treason: The Milligan Case and the Meaning of Loyalty in the Civil War|publisher=[[Princeton University]] thesis|date=2005|accessdate=March 2, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> Tredway reveals too that Democratic congressional districts in Indiana often outperformed [[Republican Party|Republican]] strongholds in recruiting soldiers into the Union Army even though Republicans had claimed that northern Democrats were not pulling their weight in troop commitments for the war.<ref>Thomas E. Rodgers, University of Southern Indiana, "Republicans and Drifters: Political Affiliation and Union Army Volunteers in West-Central Indiana," ''Indiana Magazine of History'' Vol. XCII (December 1996), pp. 321-345.</ref><br />
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In 1981, Tredway wrote a book review in the ''Indiana Magazine of History'' of a work similar to his own, ''Civil War Iowa and the Copperhead Movement'' by Hubert H. Wubben.<ref>Gilbert R. Tredway, Review of Hubert H. Wubben, ''Civil War Iowa and the Copperhead Movement,'' ''Indiana Magazine of History'', Vol. 77, No. 1 (March 1981), pp. 94-95.</ref><br />
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In 1994, Tredway penned a 601-page historical novel, ''The Way It Was: A Novel of the Civil War,'' the story of a Union soldier from Dubois County who is promoted to officer.<ref name=Tredway>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o4iIPQAACAAJ&dq=The+Way+It+Was:+A+Novel+of+the+Civil+War&hl=en&ei=zCFtTafMGMO78gap6pGNDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA|title=''The Way It Was: A Novel of the Civil War''|isbn=0-533-10733-4|publisher=Vantage Press|date=1994|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref><br />
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==Death and family==<br />
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Tredway and his wife, the former Mary Antonnette Canzoneri (1919–1978), had a daughter, Sarah Pearl "Pat" Tredway Bault-Stomps, who died in 1999 as a result of an automobile accident.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192599640/sarah-pearl-bault_stomps|title=Sarah Pearl "Pat" Tredway Bault-Stomps|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 13, 2020}}</ref> Their son is George Rodney Tredway (born ca. 1951) of Lewisport in Hancock County in northwestern Kentucky.<ref name=statement/> who was previously married to the former Janice Marie Slusser. Tredway had two brothers, W. C. Tredway (1911–1942), and Paul W. Tredway, who died in infancy in 1920.<ref name=tredway/><br />
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After leaving Campbellsville, Kentucky, Tredway resided in Jasper and then French Lick in Dubois County, Indiana, where he died at the age of ninety-six. He was a [[Baptist]].<ref name=statement/> In 1995, Tredway was the subject of an oral interview at the Center for the Study of History and Memory at the Herman B. Wells Library at Indiana University.<ref name=tredway/><br />
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[[Category:United States Army]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=J._Chester_Badgett&diff=2202254J. Chester Badgett2026-08-23T23:35:29Z<p>BHathorn2: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
|name=J. Chester Badgett<br><br />
(Southern Baptist clergyman in Campbellsville, Kentucky)<br />
|image=J Chester Badgett.jpg<br />
|birth_date=January 18, 1915<br />
|birth_place=Casey County, [[Kentucky]]<br />
Campbells resident (1950-2011),<br>Taylor County, Kentucky <br />
|death_date=May 10, 2011 (aged 96)<br />
|death_place=[[Louisville]], Jefferson County, Kentucky<br />
|spouse=Ruth Winifred Cloyd Badgett (married 1936-2009, her death)<br><br />
'''Children:'''<br>Tony Badgett<br><br />
Ruth Ann Badgett Shaw<br><br />
Dr. Thomas Badgett<br />
}}<br />
'''J. Chester Badgett''' (January 18, 1915 &ndash; May 10, 2011) was a [[Southern Baptist]] [[clergy]]man in Campbellsville in Taylor County in central [[Kentucky]]. He was a trustee for forty-two years of [[Campbellsville University]], formerly Campbellsville College. He also served on the board of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]. He was a president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention and secretary to the Mission Board of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]], based in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]].<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Badgett&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=19&GScnty=1097&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=69691713&df=all&<br />
|title=J. Chester Badgett|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 12, 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Background==<br />
Born in Casey County, also in central Kentucky, he was the third of four children of Thomas Franklin Badgett (1889-1969) and the former Lelia Grace McClanahan (1892-1974). He graduated in 1931 from Stanford High School in Lincoln County, Kentucky. In 1936, he received his undergraduate degree from the Baptist-affiliated Georgetown College in Georgetown in Scott County, Kentucky. He subsequently obtained the [[Master of Arts]] and the Doctor of Theology degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in [[Louisville]], Kentucky.<ref name=cedu/><br />
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==Career==<br />
Badgett's son, Dr. Thomas Badgett, recalled in 2009 that, as a child, family meal discussions consisted of mainly two items: Campbellsville Baptist Church, at which his father was the pastor from 1950 until 1980, and the CU campus. Badgett wrote ''Campbellsville Baptist Church: A Two-Hundred Year History 1791-1991'' and ''The History of Campbellsville University, 1906-2006,'' a book that was a product of CU's centennial observance in 2006. [[James Edward Jones]], an [[Alabama]] native who followed Badgett as the Campbellsville Baptist Church pastor, said of his predecessor: "He was one of the finest men I’ve ever known in my entire life. ... one of the greatest mission supporters ..."<ref name=cedu/><br />
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In addition to Campbellsville Baptist Church, Badgett served as pastor of the Clear Creek Baptist Church in Woodford County, Little Mount Baptist Church in Spencer County, Utica Baptist Church in Daviess County, Beaver Dam Baptist Church in Ohio County, the Kowloon Baptist Church in [[Hong Kong]], and the Bethel Baptist Church in [[Caracas]], [[Venezuela]]. He was a member of the Taylor County Ministerial Association and was the last surviving charter member of the Campbellsville Kiwanis International, of which he was once the president.<ref name=cedu/><br />
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==Death and legacy==<br />
Badgett died at the age of ninety-six at Jewish Hospital in Louisville. He and his wife, the former Ruth Winifred Cloyd (1919-2009), had three children: Tony Badgett and wife Priscilla, Ruth Ann Badgett Shaw and husband Bob of [[Frankfort]], Kentucky, and Dr. Thomas Badgett and wife Rachel of Louisville; a sister, Sue Ella Gelhausen (1930-2015) and husband, Victor, of Stanford, Kentucky, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Faulkner Badgett (1910-1965) and William Wesley Badgett (1912-1989).<ref name=findagrave/><br />
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Upon Badgett's passing, [[W. R. Davenport]], the president from 1969 to 1988 of Campbellsville College, as it was then known, cited King [[David]] of old [[Israel]] on the death of a trusted army commander: "'Know that a prince and a great man has fallen today. . .’ These words perfectly befit the passing of our dear friend and brother, Dr. Chester Badgett ... Campbellsville University has lost a stalwart supporter, a devoted trustee, a loyal friend, and an uncompromising champion of our cause. On more occasions than I can relate during my tenure at the campus, he rose to encourage support for us in ways that few, if any others, could have done. ..., a prince of God and a great man has passed from among us..."<ref name=cedu>{{cite web|url=https://www.campbellsville.edu/about/2011/05/11/long-time-trustee-dr-j-chester-badgett-dies-at-96/|title=Long-time trustee, Dr. J. Chester Badgett, dies at 96|author=Joan C. McKinney|publisher=Campbellsville.edu|accessdate=December 13, 2017}}</ref><br />
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Dr. Kenneth W. Winters (born 1934) who succeeded Davenport as the CU president from 1988 to 1996 and was later a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Kentucky State Senate, said "It would be hard to imagine anyone more dedicated to an institution and its mission than ... Dr. Badgett. He was a strong supporter of my time as president of Campbellsville University and was a strong encouragement to me individually. ..."<ref name=cedu/><br />
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The current Campbellsville Baptist pastor, Skip Alexander, recalled his personal relationship with Padgett: "We both started pastoring at the same age and were both graduates of Georgetown College. We both shared a passion for the lost and a commitment to the SBC Cooperative Program.” Alexander established the Badgett-Jones Scholarship at CU in 2003, the year after he became pastor. He took each recipient of the award to meet personally with Badgett: "This was a living way each semester for us to honor his legacy."<ref name=cedu/> In 1980, Badgett received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the then Campbellsville College.<br />
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Former CU president [[Michael V. Carter]] called Badgett "one of the ‘great generation’ of Southern Baptist and Kentucky Baptist leaders, and ... three decades as the senior pastor of Campbellsville Baptist Church touched the lives of thousands of people across southern Kentucky and beyond." Carter said that Badgett was "a “stalwart supporter of Campbellsville University and a key member of the CU Board of Trustees for many decades. His passion for evangelism and missions, advocacy of the Cooperative Program and leadership at all levels of our denomination are legendary across the Southern Baptist Convention and Kentucky Baptist Convention."<ref name=cedu/><br />
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Services were held on May 13, 2011, at the Campbellsville Baptist Church with five officiating ministers, including pastors Jones and Alexander. Interment beside his wife at Brookside Cemetery in Campbellsville.<ref name=findagrave/><br />
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
|name=James Edward Jones<br><br />
(Southern Baptist clergyman and Fiscal Court magistrate)<br />
|image=James E. Jones of KY.jpg<br />
|birth_date=December 2, 1934<br />
|birth_place=Birmingham, [[Alabama]]<br />
Resident since 1981 of Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky <br />
|death_date=<br />
|death_place=<br />
|spouse=Martha Elizabeth Bell Jones (married 1956-2021, her death)<br><br />
'''Children:'''<br>Angela, Darlene, and Byron E. Jones<br><br />
'''Alma mater''':<br><br />
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary<br />
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br />
}}<br />
'''James Edward Jones''' (born December 2, 1934) is a [[Southern Baptist]] [[clergy]]man in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]], and the District 1 magistrate on the Taylor County Fiscal Court.<br />
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==Background==<br />
A native of [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Alabama]], Jones is a son of the late Fred S. Jones and the former Annie Dews. He attended [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco]], [[Texas]], but received his bachelor's degree in 1957 from Samford University in Homewood in Jefferson County, Alabama, both Baptist institutions. He holds the bachelor of divinity (1961) and a doctorate of ministry (1982) from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in [[Louisville]] in Jefferson County, Kentucky.<ref name=bio/><ref name=prabook/><br />
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==Career==<br />
Jones in 1981 succeeded [[J. Chester Badgett]] as the pastor of Campbellsville Baptist Church, at which he remained pastor for more than twenty years. Earlier, he was the pastor of the Valley View Baptist Church in Louisville from 1964 to 1973 and the Eastern Hills Baptist Church in the capital city of [[Montgomery]], Alabama, from 1973 to 1981.<ref name=prabook>{{cite web|url=http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=582399|title=James Edward Jones|publisher=prabook.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> <br />
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Jones has served on the board of trustees of [[Campbellsville University]] and is a member of the CU Church Relations Council, a body established in 1978 by former president [[W. R. Davenport]], when the institution was known as Campbellsville College. Jones was formerly a part-time assistant in the Office of Church and External Relations, an adjunct faculty member in the CU School of Theology. After retiring from Campbellsville Baptist Church, he accepted the pastorate of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://phbchurch.wixsite.com/pleasanthillbaptist|title=Pleasant Hill Baptist Church|publisher=phbchurch.wixsite.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> He is a former moderator of the Taylor County Baptist Association, president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention<ref name=bio/> from 1989 to 1990, and a member of several KBC committees and boards. He has also served on the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee from 1983 to 1991 and as chairman of the budget committee from 1990 to 1991.<ref name=prabook/> His mission trips have been to [[Brazil]] (four times), [[Russia]] (twice), [[Venezuela]], [[Kenya]], [[Hong Kong]], [[China]], [[Poland]], and [[Honduras]]. He is a member of the Taylor County Ministerial Association, Kiwanis International (president in 1986), and the Masonic lodge. Beginning in 1982, he was appointed chaplain for the Campbellsville/Taylor County Rescue and Taylor County Sherriff's Department.<ref name=prabook/><br />
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Twice Jones has received the Campbellsville-Taylor County Chamber of Commerce "Citizen of the Year" award. In a CU press release university president [[Michael V. Carter]] describes Jones, accordingly, “Dr. Jones has a pastor’s heart, a servant’s humility and the passion of an evangelist and missionary. He is one of the fine pulpiteers of Southern Baptist life today. He has demonstrated servant leadership all of his life and continues to do so to this very day as he gives of himself in service to his Lord, his family and his community.” Carter's remarks accompanied the presentation in 2011 to Dr. Jones of the Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award by Campbellsville University.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=44624|title=Campbellsville University presents Algernon S. Sullivan Awards|publisher=columbiamagazine.com|date=May 27, 2011|author=Elena Groholske|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> In 1982, Jones published ''The Implementation of a Perennial Program of Evangelism.''<ref name=prabook/><br />
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On the fiscal court, Jones, a [[Republican Party|Republican]], worked for the completion in 2009 of the $15 million Taylor County Judicial Center in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://courts.ky.gov/courtprograms/judicialconstruction/Pages/Taylor.aspx|title=Judicial Center Construction: Taylor County Judicial Center|publisher=courts.ky.gov|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> In 2018, Jones defeated an intra-party challenger, Anthony Hash, in the Republican [[primary]] to hold on to his fiscal court seat.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cknj.com/content/young-allen-meet-mayor-fall|title=Young, Allen to meet for mayor in fall|author=Jeff Moreland|publisher=''The Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=May 23, 2018|accessdate=May 28, 2018}}</ref> Jones, a month before his 84th birthday, then defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] David Harris in the November 6 general election for another term on the fiscal court. Jones polled 1,145 votes (73.4 percent) to Harris' 415 (26.6 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cknj.com/content/allen-wins-mayor-smith-new-judge|title=Allen wins mayor, Smith is new judge; Skaggs wins circuit court clerk race over Burress; Marcum re-elected as county jailer|author=Zac Oakes|publisher=''The Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=November 8, 2018|accessdate=November 11, 2018}}</ref>a<br />
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Jones is married to the former Martha Elizabeth Bell (1937-2021), who attended school in Chilton County in central Alabama. There are two daughters, Angela and Darlene; a son, Byron E. Jones (born 1963), and five grandchildren.<ref name=bio/><br />
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==References==<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, James Edward}}<br />
[[Category:Kentucky]]<br />
[[Category:Alabama]]<br />
[[Category:Clergy]]<br />
[[Category:Baptists]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
|name=James Edward Jones<br><br />
(Southern Baptist clergyman and Fiscal Court magistrate)<br />
|image=James E. Jones of KY.jpg<br />
|birth_date=December 2, 1934<br />
|birth_place=Birmingham, [[Alabama]]<br />
Resident since 1981 of Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky <br />
|death_date=<br />
|death_place=<br />
|spouse=Martha Elizabeth Bell Jones (married 1956-2021, her death)<br><br />
'''Children:'''<br>Angela, Darlene, and Byron E. Jones<br><br />
'''Alma mater''':<br />
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary<br />
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br />
}}<br />
'''James Edward Jones''' (born December 2, 1934) is a [[Southern Baptist]] [[clergy]]man in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]], and the District 1 magistrate on the Taylor County Fiscal Court.<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
A native of [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Alabama]], Jones is a son of the late Fred S. Jones and the former Annie Dews. He attended [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco]], [[Texas]], but received his bachelor's degree in 1957 from Samford University in Homewood in Jefferson County, Alabama, both Baptist institutions. He holds the bachelor of divinity (1961) and a doctorate of ministry (1982) from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in [[Louisville]] in Jefferson County, Kentucky.<ref name=bio/><ref name=prabook/><br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Jones in 1981 succeeded [[J. Chester Badgett]] as the pastor of Campbellsville Baptist Church, at which he remained pastor for more than twenty years. Earlier, he was the pastor of the Valley View Baptist Church in Louisville from 1964 to 1973 and the Eastern Hills Baptist Church in the capital city of [[Montgomery]], Alabama, from 1973 to 1981.<ref name=prabook>{{cite web|url=http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=582399|title=James Edward Jones|publisher=prabook.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> <br />
<br />
Jones has served on the board of trustees of [[Campbellsville University]] and is a member of the CU Church Relations Council, a body established in 1978 by former president [[W. R. Davenport]], when the institution was known as Campbellsville College. Jones was formerly a part-time assistant in the Office of Church and External Relations, an adjunct faculty member in the CU School of Theology. After retiring from Campbellsville Baptist Church, he accepted the pastorate of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://phbchurch.wixsite.com/pleasanthillbaptist|title=Pleasant Hill Baptist Church|publisher=phbchurch.wixsite.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> He is a former moderator of the Taylor County Baptist Association, president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention<ref name=bio/> from 1989 to 1990, and a member of several KBC committees and boards. He has also served on the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee from 1983 to 1991 and as chairman of the budget committee from 1990 to 1991.<ref name=prabook/> His mission trips have been to [[Brazil]] (four times), [[Russia]] (twice), [[Venezuela]], [[Kenya]], [[Hong Kong]], [[China]], [[Poland]], and [[Honduras]]. He is a member of the Taylor County Ministerial Association, Kiwanis International (president in 1986), and the Masonic lodge. Beginning in 1982, he was appointed chaplain for the Campbellsville/Taylor County Rescue and Taylor County Sherriff's Department.<ref name=prabook/><br />
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Twice Jones has received the Campbellsville-Taylor County Chamber of Commerce "Citizen of the Year" award. In a CU press release university president [[Michael V. Carter]] describes Jones, accordingly, “Dr. Jones has a pastor’s heart, a servant’s humility and the passion of an evangelist and missionary. He is one of the fine pulpiteers of Southern Baptist life today. He has demonstrated servant leadership all of his life and continues to do so to this very day as he gives of himself in service to his Lord, his family and his community.” Carter's remarks accompanied the presentation in 2011 to Dr. Jones of the Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award by Campbellsville University.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=44624|title=Campbellsville University presents Algernon S. Sullivan Awards|publisher=columbiamagazine.com|date=May 27, 2011|author=Elena Groholske|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> In 1982, Jones published ''The Implementation of a Perennial Program of Evangelism.''<ref name=prabook/><br />
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On the fiscal court, Jones, a [[Republican Party|Republican]], worked for the completion in 2009 of the $15 million Taylor County Judicial Center in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://courts.ky.gov/courtprograms/judicialconstruction/Pages/Taylor.aspx|title=Judicial Center Construction: Taylor County Judicial Center|publisher=courts.ky.gov|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> In 2018, Jones defeated an intra-party challenger, Anthony Hash, in the Republican [[primary]] to hold on to his fiscal court seat.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cknj.com/content/young-allen-meet-mayor-fall|title=Young, Allen to meet for mayor in fall|author=Jeff Moreland|publisher=''The Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=May 23, 2018|accessdate=May 28, 2018}}</ref> Jones, a month before his 84th birthday, then defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] David Harris in the November 6 general election for another term on the fiscal court. Jones polled 1,145 votes (73.4 percent) to Harris' 415 (26.6 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cknj.com/content/allen-wins-mayor-smith-new-judge|title=Allen wins mayor, Smith is new judge; Skaggs wins circuit court clerk race over Burress; Marcum re-elected as county jailer|author=Zac Oakes|publisher=''The Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=November 8, 2018|accessdate=November 11, 2018}}</ref>a<br />
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Jones is married to the former Martha Elizabeth Bell (1937-2021), who attended school in Chilton County in central Alabama. There are two daughters, Angela and Darlene; a son, Byron E. Jones (born 1963), and five grandchildren.<ref name=bio/><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, James Edward}}<br />
[[Category:Kentucky]]<br />
[[Category:Alabama]]<br />
[[Category:Clergy]]<br />
[[Category:Baptists]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Republicans]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=James_Edward_Jones&diff=2202251James Edward Jones2026-08-23T23:31:38Z<p>BHathorn2: /* Background */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
|name=James Edward Jones<br><br />
(Southern Baptist clergyman and Fiscal Court magistrate)<br />
|image=James E. Jones of KY.jpg<br />
|birth_date=December 2, 1934<br />
|birth_place=Birmingham, [[Alabama]]<br />
Resident since 1981 of Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky <br />
|death_date=<br />
|death_place=<br />
|spouse=Martha Elizabeth Bell Jones (married 1956)<br><br />
'''Children:'''<br>Angela, Darlene, and Byron E. Jones<br />
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br />
}}<br />
'''James Edward Jones''' (born December 2, 1934) is a [[Southern Baptist]] [[clergy]]man in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]], and the District 1 magistrate on the Taylor County Fiscal Court.<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
A native of [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Alabama]], Jones is a son of the late Fred S. Jones and the former Annie Dews. He attended [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco]], [[Texas]], but received his bachelor's degree in 1957 from Samford University in Homewood in Jefferson County, Alabama, both Baptist institutions. He holds the bachelor of divinity (1961) and a doctorate of ministry (1982) from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in [[Louisville]] in Jefferson County, Kentucky.<ref name=bio/><ref name=prabook/><br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Jones in 1981 succeeded [[J. Chester Badgett]] as the pastor of Campbellsville Baptist Church, at which he remained pastor for more than twenty years. Earlier, he was the pastor of the Valley View Baptist Church in Louisville from 1964 to 1973 and the Eastern Hills Baptist Church in the capital city of [[Montgomery]], Alabama, from 1973 to 1981.<ref name=prabook>{{cite web|url=http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=582399|title=James Edward Jones|publisher=prabook.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> <br />
<br />
Jones has served on the board of trustees of [[Campbellsville University]] and is a member of the CU Church Relations Council, a body established in 1978 by former president [[W. R. Davenport]], when the institution was known as Campbellsville College. Jones was formerly a part-time assistant in the Office of Church and External Relations, an adjunct faculty member in the CU School of Theology. After retiring from Campbellsville Baptist Church, he accepted the pastorate of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://phbchurch.wixsite.com/pleasanthillbaptist|title=Pleasant Hill Baptist Church|publisher=phbchurch.wixsite.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> He is a former moderator of the Taylor County Baptist Association, president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention<ref name=bio/> from 1989 to 1990, and a member of several KBC committees and boards. He has also served on the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee from 1983 to 1991 and as chairman of the budget committee from 1990 to 1991.<ref name=prabook/> His mission trips have been to [[Brazil]] (four times), [[Russia]] (twice), [[Venezuela]], [[Kenya]], [[Hong Kong]], [[China]], [[Poland]], and [[Honduras]]. He is a member of the Taylor County Ministerial Association, Kiwanis International (president in 1986), and the Masonic lodge. Beginning in 1982, he was appointed chaplain for the Campbellsville/Taylor County Rescue and Taylor County Sherriff's Department.<ref name=prabook/><br />
<br />
Twice Jones has received the Campbellsville-Taylor County Chamber of Commerce "Citizen of the Year" award. In a CU press release university president [[Michael V. Carter]] describes Jones, accordingly, “Dr. Jones has a pastor’s heart, a servant’s humility and the passion of an evangelist and missionary. He is one of the fine pulpiteers of Southern Baptist life today. He has demonstrated servant leadership all of his life and continues to do so to this very day as he gives of himself in service to his Lord, his family and his community.” Carter's remarks accompanied the presentation in 2011 to Dr. Jones of the Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award by Campbellsville University.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=44624|title=Campbellsville University presents Algernon S. Sullivan Awards|publisher=columbiamagazine.com|date=May 27, 2011|author=Elena Groholske|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> In 1982, Jones published ''The Implementation of a Perennial Program of Evangelism.''<ref name=prabook/><br />
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On the fiscal court, Jones, a [[Republican Party|Republican]], worked for the completion in 2009 of the $15 million Taylor County Judicial Center in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://courts.ky.gov/courtprograms/judicialconstruction/Pages/Taylor.aspx|title=Judicial Center Construction: Taylor County Judicial Center|publisher=courts.ky.gov|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> In 2018, Jones defeated an intra-party challenger, Anthony Hash, in the Republican [[primary]] to hold on to his fiscal court seat.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cknj.com/content/young-allen-meet-mayor-fall|title=Young, Allen to meet for mayor in fall|author=Jeff Moreland|publisher=''The Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=May 23, 2018|accessdate=May 28, 2018}}</ref> Jones, a month before his 84th birthday, then defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] David Harris in the November 6 general election for another term on the fiscal court. Jones polled 1,145 votes (73.4 percent) to Harris' 415 (26.6 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cknj.com/content/allen-wins-mayor-smith-new-judge|title=Allen wins mayor, Smith is new judge; Skaggs wins circuit court clerk race over Burress; Marcum re-elected as county jailer|author=Zac Oakes|publisher=''The Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=November 8, 2018|accessdate=November 11, 2018}}</ref>a<br />
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Jones is married to the former Martha Elizabeth Bell (1937-2021), who attended school in Chilton County in central Alabama. There are two daughters, Angela and Darlene; a son, Byron E. Jones (born 1963), and five grandchildren.<ref name=bio/><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, James Edward}}<br />
[[Category:Kentucky]]<br />
[[Category:Alabama]]<br />
[[Category:Clergy]]<br />
[[Category:Baptists]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Republicans]]</div>BHathorn2https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=James_Edward_Jones&diff=2202250James Edward Jones2026-08-23T23:31:17Z<p>BHathorn2: /* Background */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
|name=James Edward Jones<br><br />
(Southern Baptist clergyman and Fiscal Court magistrate)<br />
|image=James E. Jones of KY.jpg<br />
|birth_date=December 2, 1934<br />
|birth_place=Birmingham, [[Alabama]]<br />
Resident since 1981 of Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky <br />
|death_date=<br />
|death_place=<br />
|spouse=Martha Elizabeth Bell Jones (married 1956)<br><br />
'''Children:'''<br>Angela, Darlene, and Byron E. Jones<br />
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br />
}}<br />
'''James Edward Jones''' (born December 2, 1934) is a [[Southern Baptist]] [[clergy]]man in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]], and the District 1 magistrate on the Taylor County Fiscal Court.<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
A native of [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Alabama]], Jones is a son of the late Fred S. Jones and the former Annie Dews. He attended [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco]], [[Texas]], but received his bachelor's degree in 1957 from Samford University in Homewood in Jefferson County, Alabama, both Baptist institutions. He holds the bachelor of divinity (1961) and a doctorate of ministry (1982) from the[Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in [[Louisville]] in Jefferson County, Kentucky.<ref name=bio/><ref name=prabook/><br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Jones in 1981 succeeded [[J. Chester Badgett]] as the pastor of Campbellsville Baptist Church, at which he remained pastor for more than twenty years. Earlier, he was the pastor of the Valley View Baptist Church in Louisville from 1964 to 1973 and the Eastern Hills Baptist Church in the capital city of [[Montgomery]], Alabama, from 1973 to 1981.<ref name=prabook>{{cite web|url=http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=582399|title=James Edward Jones|publisher=prabook.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> <br />
<br />
Jones has served on the board of trustees of [[Campbellsville University]] and is a member of the CU Church Relations Council, a body established in 1978 by former president [[W. R. Davenport]], when the institution was known as Campbellsville College. Jones was formerly a part-time assistant in the Office of Church and External Relations, an adjunct faculty member in the CU School of Theology. After retiring from Campbellsville Baptist Church, he accepted the pastorate of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://phbchurch.wixsite.com/pleasanthillbaptist|title=Pleasant Hill Baptist Church|publisher=phbchurch.wixsite.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> He is a former moderator of the Taylor County Baptist Association, president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention<ref name=bio/> from 1989 to 1990, and a member of several KBC committees and boards. He has also served on the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee from 1983 to 1991 and as chairman of the budget committee from 1990 to 1991.<ref name=prabook/> His mission trips have been to [[Brazil]] (four times), [[Russia]] (twice), [[Venezuela]], [[Kenya]], [[Hong Kong]], [[China]], [[Poland]], and [[Honduras]]. He is a member of the Taylor County Ministerial Association, Kiwanis International (president in 1986), and the Masonic lodge. Beginning in 1982, he was appointed chaplain for the Campbellsville/Taylor County Rescue and Taylor County Sherriff's Department.<ref name=prabook/><br />
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Twice Jones has received the Campbellsville-Taylor County Chamber of Commerce "Citizen of the Year" award. In a CU press release university president [[Michael V. Carter]] describes Jones, accordingly, “Dr. Jones has a pastor’s heart, a servant’s humility and the passion of an evangelist and missionary. He is one of the fine pulpiteers of Southern Baptist life today. He has demonstrated servant leadership all of his life and continues to do so to this very day as he gives of himself in service to his Lord, his family and his community.” Carter's remarks accompanied the presentation in 2011 to Dr. Jones of the Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award by Campbellsville University.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=44624|title=Campbellsville University presents Algernon S. Sullivan Awards|publisher=columbiamagazine.com|date=May 27, 2011|author=Elena Groholske|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> In 1982, Jones published ''The Implementation of a Perennial Program of Evangelism.''<ref name=prabook/><br />
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On the fiscal court, Jones, a [[Republican Party|Republican]], worked for the completion in 2009 of the $15 million Taylor County Judicial Center in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://courts.ky.gov/courtprograms/judicialconstruction/Pages/Taylor.aspx|title=Judicial Center Construction: Taylor County Judicial Center|publisher=courts.ky.gov|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> In 2018, Jones defeated an intra-party challenger, Anthony Hash, in the Republican [[primary]] to hold on to his fiscal court seat.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cknj.com/content/young-allen-meet-mayor-fall|title=Young, Allen to meet for mayor in fall|author=Jeff Moreland|publisher=''The Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=May 23, 2018|accessdate=May 28, 2018}}</ref> Jones, a month before his 84th birthday, then defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] David Harris in the November 6 general election for another term on the fiscal court. Jones polled 1,145 votes (73.4 percent) to Harris' 415 (26.6 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cknj.com/content/allen-wins-mayor-smith-new-judge|title=Allen wins mayor, Smith is new judge; Skaggs wins circuit court clerk race over Burress; Marcum re-elected as county jailer|author=Zac Oakes|publisher=''The Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=November 8, 2018|accessdate=November 11, 2018}}</ref>a<br />
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Jones is married to the former Martha Elizabeth Bell (1937-2021), who attended school in Chilton County in central Alabama. There are two daughters, Angela and Darlene; a son, Byron E. Jones (born 1963), and five grandchildren.<ref name=bio/><br />
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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
|name=James Edward Jones<br><br />
(Southern Baptist clergyman and Fiscal Court magistrate)<br />
|image=James E. Jones of KY.jpg<br />
|birth_date=December 2, 1934<br />
|birth_place=Birmingham, [[Alabama]]<br />
Resident since 1981 of Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky <br />
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|death_place=<br />
|spouse=Martha Elizabeth Bell Jones (married 1956)<br><br />
'''Children:'''<br>Angela, Darlene, and Byron E. Jones<br />
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br />
}}<br />
'''James Edward Jones''' (born December 2, 1934) is a [[Southern Baptist]] [[clergy]]man in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]], and the District 1 magistrate on the Taylor County Fiscal Court.<br />
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==Background==<br />
A native of [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Alabama]], Jones is a son of the late Fred S. Jones and the former Annie Dews. He attended [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco]], [[Texas]], but received his bachelor's degree in 1957 from Samford University in Homewood in Jefferson County, Alabama, both Baptist institutions. He holds the bachelor of divinity (1961) and a doctorate of ministry (1982) from the [[Southern Baptist Theological Seminary]] in [[Louisville]] in Jefferson County, Kentucky.<ref name=bio/><ref name=prabook/><br />
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==Career==<br />
Jones in 1981 succeeded [[J. Chester Badgett]] as the pastor of Campbellsville Baptist Church, at which he remained pastor for more than twenty years. Earlier, he was the pastor of the Valley View Baptist Church in Louisville from 1964 to 1973 and the Eastern Hills Baptist Church in the capital city of [[Montgomery]], Alabama, from 1973 to 1981.<ref name=prabook>{{cite web|url=http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=582399|title=James Edward Jones|publisher=prabook.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> <br />
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Jones has served on the board of trustees of [[Campbellsville University]] and is a member of the CU Church Relations Council, a body established in 1978 by former president [[W. R. Davenport]], when the institution was known as Campbellsville College. Jones was formerly a part-time assistant in the Office of Church and External Relations, an adjunct faculty member in the CU School of Theology. After retiring from Campbellsville Baptist Church, he accepted the pastorate of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://phbchurch.wixsite.com/pleasanthillbaptist|title=Pleasant Hill Baptist Church|publisher=phbchurch.wixsite.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> He is a former moderator of the Taylor County Baptist Association, president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention<ref name=bio/> from 1989 to 1990, and a member of several KBC committees and boards. He has also served on the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee from 1983 to 1991 and as chairman of the budget committee from 1990 to 1991.<ref name=prabook/> His mission trips have been to [[Brazil]] (four times), [[Russia]] (twice), [[Venezuela]], [[Kenya]], [[Hong Kong]], [[China]], [[Poland]], and [[Honduras]]. He is a member of the Taylor County Ministerial Association, Kiwanis International (president in 1986), and the Masonic lodge. Beginning in 1982, he was appointed chaplain for the Campbellsville/Taylor County Rescue and Taylor County Sherriff's Department.<ref name=prabook/><br />
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Twice Jones has received the Campbellsville-Taylor County Chamber of Commerce "Citizen of the Year" award. In a CU press release university president [[Michael V. Carter]] describes Jones, accordingly, “Dr. Jones has a pastor’s heart, a servant’s humility and the passion of an evangelist and missionary. He is one of the fine pulpiteers of Southern Baptist life today. He has demonstrated servant leadership all of his life and continues to do so to this very day as he gives of himself in service to his Lord, his family and his community.” Carter's remarks accompanied the presentation in 2011 to Dr. Jones of the Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award by Campbellsville University.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=44624|title=Campbellsville University presents Algernon S. Sullivan Awards|publisher=columbiamagazine.com|date=May 27, 2011|author=Elena Groholske|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> In 1982, Jones published ''The Implementation of a Perennial Program of Evangelism.''<ref name=prabook/><br />
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On the fiscal court, Jones, a [[Republican Party|Republican]], worked for the completion in 2009 of the $15 million Taylor County Judicial Center in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://courts.ky.gov/courtprograms/judicialconstruction/Pages/Taylor.aspx|title=Judicial Center Construction: Taylor County Judicial Center|publisher=courts.ky.gov|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> In 2018, Jones defeated an intra-party challenger, Anthony Hash, in the Republican [[primary]] to hold on to his fiscal court seat.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cknj.com/content/young-allen-meet-mayor-fall|title=Young, Allen to meet for mayor in fall|author=Jeff Moreland|publisher=''The Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=May 23, 2018|accessdate=May 28, 2018}}</ref> Jones, a month before his 84th birthday, then defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] David Harris in the November 6 general election for another term on the fiscal court. Jones polled 1,145 votes (73.4 percent) to Harris' 415 (26.6 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cknj.com/content/allen-wins-mayor-smith-new-judge|title=Allen wins mayor, Smith is new judge; Skaggs wins circuit court clerk race over Burress; Marcum re-elected as county jailer|author=Zac Oakes|publisher=''The Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=November 8, 2018|accessdate=November 11, 2018}}</ref>a<br />
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Jones is married to the former Martha Elizabeth Bell (1937-2021), who attended school in Chilton County in central Alabama. There are two daughters, Angela and Darlene; a son, Byron E. Jones (born 1963), and five grandchildren.<ref name=bio/><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, James Edward}}<br />
[[Category:Kentucky]]<br />
[[Category:Alabama]]<br />
[[Category:Clergy]]<br />
[[Category:Baptists]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Republicans]]</div>BHathorn2