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Kindred CARMOUCHE Signed Louisiana Genealogy Book Lanier Martin La Politics

by Edward M. Carmouche

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Kindred CARMOUCHE Signed Louisiana Genealogy Book Lanier Martin La PoliticsVery good condition vintage hardcover book. Signed by author who was a former Louisiana Democratic Party Chairman in the 1960s.Carmouche and allied familes including Lanier and Martin.From 1952 to 1955, Carmouche was a magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. He was from 1955 to 1984 an assistant state attorney general under Fred S. LeBlanc, Jack P. F. Gremillion, and William J. Guste.[1] Carmouche was a delegate to both the 1956 and 1960 Democratic national conventions.[2] In 1960, Carmouche served on the party platform committee and was a successful elector candidate[1] for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, which easily won the ten electoral votes in Louisiana.In December 1966, Carmouche was elected state party chairman when C. H. "Sammy" Downs, a former member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Alexandria, resigned to support George Wallace, who as the former governor of Alabama mounted a presidential campaign in 1968 as the nominee of the American Independent Party. As an avowed supporter of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, Carmouche defeated, fifty-four to thirty-eight, the mayor of Monroe, W. L. "Jack" Howard, who carried the support of both Downs and Leander Perez, the political boss of Plaquemines Parish near New Orleans known for his strong segregationist views.[3]Carmouche was subsequently replaced on December 28, 1967,[4] by

  • Year: 1986
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Condition: Very Good

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