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Asa Leonard Allen (1891-1969) —
also known as A. Leonard Allen —
of Winnfield, Winn
Parish, La.
Born in a log
cabin near Winnfield, Winn
Parish, La., January
5, 1891.
Democrat. Superintendent of schools; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1936;
U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1937-53.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Scottish
Rite Masons; Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias.
Died January
5, 1969 (age 78 years, 0
days).
Interment at Winnfield
Cemetery, Winnfield, La.
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Oscar Kelly Allen (1882-1936) —
also known as O. K. Allen —
of Louisiana.
Born in a log
cabin in Winn
Parish, La., August
8, 1882.
Democrat. School teacher; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1920; Governor of
Louisiana, 1932-36; died in office 1936.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in the Louisiana Governor's
mansion, Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., January
28, 1936 (age 53 years, 173
days).
Interment at Winnfield
Cemetery, Winnfield, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Asa Levi Allen and Sophronia (Perkins) Allen; brother of Asa
Leonard Allen; married, December
4, 1912, to Florence Scott Love. |
| | | Cross-reference: Richard
W. Leche |
| | | The Huey P. Long - O.K. Allen Bridge
(opened 1940), which carries U.S. Highway 190 and a rail line over
the Mississippi River, between East Baton
Rouge Parish and West Baton
Rouge Parish, Louisiana, is partly named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "A friend to man, a follower
of God, great builder, courageous leader, humble in life, exalted in
death." |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Benjamin Aswell (1869-1931) —
also known as James B. Aswell —
of Natchitoches, Natchitoches
Parish, La.
Born in Jackson
Parish, La., December
23, 1869.
Democrat. School teacher and principal; Louisiana
superintendent of public instruction, 1904-08; Chancellor,
University of Mississippi, 1907; president,
Louisiana State Normal College, 1908-11; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1913-31; died in
office 1931.
Baptist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
16, 1931 (age 61 years, 83
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Iola Kelley Banks (1933-2002) —
also known as Iola Banks —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska; Kenai, Kenai
Peninsula Borough, Alaska.
Born in Arcadia, Bienville
Parish, La., August
10, 1933.
Democrat. School teacher; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alaska, 1976,
1980,
2000.
Female.
Baptist
or Methodist.
Member, Delta
Kappa Gamma; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in
the ambulance en route to a hospital, near Soldotna, Kenai
Peninsula Borough, Alaska, June 26,
2002 (age 68 years, 320
days).
Interment somewhere
in Lexington, Ky.
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Relatives:
Married to Lovell Banks. |
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Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (1877-1947) —
also known as Theodore G. Bilbo —
of Poplarville, Pearl
River County, Miss.
Born near Poplarville, Pearl River
County, Miss., October
13, 1877.
Democrat. School teacher; lawyer; farmer;
member of Mississippi
state senate, 1908-12; Lieutenant
Governor of Mississippi, 1912-16; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Mississippi, 1912
(alternate), 1916
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1928,
1936,
1940,
1944;
Governor
of Mississippi, 1916-20, 1928-32; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1935-47; died in office 1947.
Baptist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Ku Klux Klan.
Author
of the book Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization,
which advocated deportation of all Black Americans to Africa. During
the 1946 campaign, in a radio address, he called on "every
red-blooded Anglo-Saxon man in Mississippi to resort to any means to
keep hundreds of Negroes from the polls in the July 2 primary. And if
you don't know what that means, you are just not up to your
persuasive measures." After he won re-election, the Senate, appalled
at his racist
views and tactics, refused to
seat him, and started an investigation.
Died, of mouth
cancer, in a hospital
at New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., August
21, 1947 (age 69 years, 312
days).
Interment at Juniper
Grove Cemetery, Near Poplarville, Pearl River County, Miss.
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John Black (1800-1854) —
of Monroe, Franklin
County, Miss.; Winchester,
Va.
Born in Virginia, August
11, 1800.
School teacher; lawyer; justice of
Mississippi state supreme court, 1826-32; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1832-33, 1833-38; resigned 1838; sugar cane
planter.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Winchester,
Va., August
29, 1854 (age 54 years, 18
days).
Interment at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Innis, La.
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Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (b. 1942) —
also known as Kathleen B. Blanco; Kathleen
Babineaux —
of Lafayette, Lafayette
Parish, La.
Born in New Iberia, Iberia
Parish, La., December
15, 1942.
Democrat. School teacher; Lieutenant
Governor of Louisiana, 1996-2003; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Louisiana, 1996,
2000,
2004;
Governor
of Louisiana, 2004.
Female.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2014.
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William Preston Blocker (1892-1947) —
also known as William P. Blocker —
of Hondo, Medina
County, Tex.
Born in Hondo, Medina
County, Tex., September
30, 1892.
Democrat. School teacher; salesman;
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, 1913-14; U.S. Vice Consul in Piedras Negras, 1916-19; U.S. Consul in Piedras Negras, 1919-23; Guaymas, 1923-24; Mazatlan, 1925-29; Ciudad Juarez, 1929-32; Monterrey, as of 1938; U.S. Consul General in Ciudad Juarez, 1938-43.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary.
Died, following a heart
attack, on
board the U.S. Transport St. Mihiel, on which he had been
scheduled to sail to Panama, at New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., February
28, 1947 (age 54 years, 151
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Alameda Cemetery, El Paso, Tex.
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Corinne Claiborne Boggs (1916-2013) —
also known as Corinne C. Boggs; Lindy Boggs; Marie
Corinne Morrison Claiborne; Corinne Claiborne; Mrs.
Hale Boggs —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Pointe
Coupee Parish, La., March
13, 1916.
Democrat. School teacher; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 1973-91; speaker,
Democratic National Convention, 1984,
1988;
U.S. Ambassador to Vatican, 1997-2001.
Female.
Catholic.
Died in Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md., July 27,
2013 (age 97 years, 136
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Wesley Bryan Jr. (1901-1969) —
of Bremerton, Kitsap
County, Wash.
Born in Lake Charles, Calcasieu
Parish, La., October
31, 1901.
Republican. School teacher; athletic
coach; lawyer; Kitsap
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1931-32; candidate for Washington
state senate, 1956.
Protestant.
Member, Phi
Gamma Delta; Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; Eagles;
Lions;
Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in December, 1969
(age 68
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Anh Quang Cao (b. 1967) —
also known as Joseph Cao —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam,
March
13, 1967.
Republican. School teacher; lawyer; lobbyist;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Louisiana, 2008;
U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 2009-.
Catholic.
Vietnamese
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Harry Edwin Carlson (b. 1886) —
also known as Harry E. Carlson —
of Lafayette, Lafayette
Parish, La.; Lincoln, Logan
County, Ill.; Joliet, Will
County, Ill.
Born in Morris, Grundy
County, Ill., March
17, 1886.
School teacher; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in
Frankfort, 1916-17; Christiania, 1917-24; Stavanger, 1922; U.S. Consul in Kovno, 1924-26; Tallinn, 1926-35; Stockholm, as of 1943.
Baptist.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Carlson and Matilda (Herzloef) Carlson; married, October
2, 1920, to Laura Reymert. |
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R. J. Evans (1853-1921) —
of Navasota, Grimes
County, Tex.
Born in slavery
in Louisiana, 1853.
School teacher; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1879-82; defeated (Republican),
1882; delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, 1884.
African
ancestry.
Died in Harris
County, Tex., September
27, 1921 (age about 68
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Harvey Goodwyn Fields (b. 1884) —
also known as Harvey G. Fields —
of Marksville, Avoyelles
Parish, La.; Farmerville, Union
Parish, La.
Born in Marksville, Avoyelles
Parish, La., May 31,
1884.
Democrat. School teacher; lawyer; law
partner of Huey P.
Long; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1916-20; District Attorney, 3rd District, 1922-25;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1924
(alternate), 1928
(alternate; member, Credentials
Committee), 1932,
1936;
Louisiana
Democratic state chair, 1926-29; member of Louisiana
public service commission, 1927-36; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, 1937-45.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks; Odd
Fellows; Woodmen;
Lions.
Interment at Farmerville
City Cemetery, Farmerville, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Theodore Thomas Fields and Carrie (Goodwyn) Fields; married, December
31, 1908, to Evelyn Sanders. |
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Ezola Broussard Foster (b. 1938) —
also known as Ezola B. Foster; Ezola
Broussard —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Maurice, Vermilion
Parish, La., August
9, 1938.
School teacher; Republican candidate for California
state assembly, 1984; arrested
with others while protesting
recognition of the gay Log Cabin Republican organization, at the
California Republican state convention, 1987; Reform candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2000.
Female.
Catholic.
African
ancestry. Member, John
Birch Society.
Still living as of 2018.
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Eligius Fromentin (c.1767-1822) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in France,
about 1767.
Catholic
priest; school teacher; lawyer;
clerk of the Orleans Territory House of Representatives, 1807-11; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1813-19; criminal court judge in
Louisiana, 1821; U.S.
District Judge for Florida, 1821.
Slaveowner.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., October
6, 1822 (age about 55
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Fremont Goodwine (1857-1956) —
of Williamsport, Warren
County, Ind.; St. Joseph, Tensas
Parish, La.
Born in West Lebanon, Warren
County, Ind., May 22,
1857.
Republican. School teacher; farmer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1904;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1900; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1908; member of Louisiana
Republican State Central Committee, 1928-50; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from Louisiana, 1944.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Farm
Bureau.
Died August
25, 1956 (age 99 years, 95
days).
Interment at Legion Memorial Cemetery, Newellton, La.
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Relatives: Son
of James Goodwine and Sophia (Buckles) Goodwine; married to Mary
Moore. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Winfield Scott Hammond (1863-1915) —
also known as Winfield S. Hammond —
of St. James, Watonwan
County, Minn.
Born in Southborough, Worcester
County, Mass., November
17, 1863.
Democrat. School principal; superintendent of schools;
lawyer;
Watonwan
County Attorney, 1895-96, 1901-04; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 2nd District, 1907-15; defeated,
1892; resigned 1915; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1908 ;
Governor
of Minnesota, 1915; died in office 1915.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died, from apoplexy,
in Clinton, East
Feliciana Parish, La., December
30, 1915 (age 52 years, 43
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, St. James, Minn.
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Velma Marjorie Dreyfus Jeter (1903-1998) —
also known as Velma Jeter; Velma Marjorie
Dreyfus —
of Port Arthur, Jefferson
County, Tex.; Orange, Orange
County, Tex.
Born in New Iberia, Iberia
Parish, La., July 15,
1903.
Democrat. School teacher; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1980,
1996.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Died January
23, 1998 (age 94 years, 192
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Jules Dreyfus and Victoria (Smith) Dreyfus; married 1926 to Clell
Edward Jeter. |
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Minedee C. McLean (b. 1888) —
also known as Minedee McLean —
of Jackson, East
Feliciana Parish, La.
Born in East
Feliciana Parish, La., April
29, 1888.
School teacher; bank
clerk; U.S. Vice Consul in Santiago, 1940-43.
Female.
Burial location unknown.
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Cherubusco Newton (1848-1910) —
of Bastrop, Morehouse
Parish, La.
Born in Greensburg, St. Helena
Parish, La., May 15,
1848.
Democrat. School teacher; lawyer;
member of Louisiana
state senate, 1879-83; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 5th District, 1887-89.
Died May 26,
1910 (age 62 years, 11
days).
Interment at New
Cemetery, Bastrop, La.
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James G. Palmer (1875-1952) —
of Vernon
Parish, La.; Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born in Arizona, Claiborne
Parish, La., 1875.
Democrat. Superintendent of schools; district judge in
Louisiana, 1912-14; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1921; mayor
of Shreveport, La., 1930-32; Judge, Louisiana Circuit Court of
Appeals, 1932-33.
Methodist.
Died in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., 1952
(age about
77 years).
Interment at Forest
Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
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Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1917-1982) —
also known as Max Rafferty —
of La Canada (now part of La Canada Flintridge), Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Alabama.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 9,
1917.
Republican. School teacher and principal; superintendent of
schools; newspaper
columnist;
California
superintendent of public instruction, 1963-70; defeated, 1970;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1968; dean,
Education Department, Troy State University, 1971-82.
Episcopalian.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Lions; Rotary.
Drowned
when his car went
off the road into a pond, in Troy, Pike
County, Ala., June 13,
1982 (age 65 years, 35
days).
Interment at Green
Hills Cemetery, Troy, Ala.
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Bobby Ray Simpson (b. 1953) —
also known as Bobby Simpson —
of Baker, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La.
Born in East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., 1953.
Republican. School teacher; mayor
of Baker, La., 1992-2000; mayor-president
of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, 2001-04; defeated, 2004.
Nondenominational
Christian.
Still living as of 2014.
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Richard Alvin Tonry (1935-2012) —
also known as Richard A. Tonry —
of Arabi, St.
Bernard Parish, La.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., June 25,
1935.
Democrat. School teacher; lawyer;
member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1976; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1977.
Catholic.
Died in Lumberton, Lamar
County, Miss., July 3,
2012 (age 77 years, 8
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Ross Wallace (1848-1929) —
also known as Thomas R. Wallace —
of Atlantic, Cass
County, Iowa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
20, 1848.
Republican. School teacher; lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Crefeld, 1901-07; Jerusalem, 1907-10; Martinique, 1910-24.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
8, 1929 (age 81 years, 49
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Wallace and Jane (Ross) Wallace; married, October
6, 1874, to Margaret Gill. |
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Riley Joseph Wilson (1871-1946) —
also known as Riley J. Wilson —
of Harrisonburg, Catahoula
Parish, La.; Ruston, Lincoln
Parish, La.
Born in Winn
Parish, La., November
12, 1871.
Democrat. School principal; lawyer; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1898; newspaper
editor; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1900-04; district judge in
Louisiana 8th District, 1910-14; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 5th District, 1915-37; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1920;
candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1928.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Woodmen of
the World; Columbian
Woodmen.
Died in Ruston, Lincoln
Parish, La., February
23, 1946 (age 74 years, 103
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Ruston, La.
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