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Franklin Parish, Louisiana Franklin Parish (French: "Paroisse de Franklin" ) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,767. The parish seat is Winnsboro. The parish was founded in 1843 and named for Benjamin Franklin.
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Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin FRS, FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a renowned polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire department and the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution.
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Joseph Barton Elam Jr. Joseph Barton Elam Jr. (June 1, 1878 – October 24, 1935), was a politician, businessman, and journalist in his native Mansfield in DeSoto Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
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Robert Edwin Russ Robert Edwin Russ (August 27, 1830 – January 9, 1902) was a planter and civic leader who founded Ruston, the parish seat of Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana.
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Shelby M. Jackson Shelby Marion Jackson (November 20, 1903 – January 25, 1972) was a Democrat who served from 1948 to 1964 as the superintendent of public education in Louisiana. In the early 1960s, Jackson tried in vain to block federally authorized school desegregation. Jackson was posthumously honored in 1994 by the naming of the "Shelby M. Jackson Memorial Campus" of Louisiana Technical College in Ferriday.
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Antoine James de Marigny Antoine Jacques Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1811–1890), (also known as Antoine James de Marigny and Mandeville de Marigny), was the son of Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville and Anna Mathilde Morales, and the son-in-law of William C. C. Claiborne, the first Governor of Louisiana after statehood. He was a planter, merchant, military officer, and U.S. Marshal for eastern Louisiana.
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Alton Hardy Howard Alton Hardy Howard (March 28, 1925 – October 29, 2006) was a businessman, author, and a gospel songwriter from West Monroe in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana.
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Elmer R. Tapper Elmer Robert Tapper Sr. (June 19, 1929 – September 17, 2011), usually known as E. T. Tapper, was an attorney and a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from his native St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.
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Jean Noel Destréhan Jean-Noël Destréhan de Tours (1754 – October 4, 1823) was a Creole politician in Louisiana and one-time owner of St. Charles Parish's Destrehan Plantation, one of Louisiana's historic antebellum landmarks. The community of Destrehan was named for his family.
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Frank Page (broadcaster) Raymond Franklin Page, known as Frank Page (July 16, 1925 – January 9, 2013), was a boadcaster from radio station KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana, who on October 16, 1954 introduced Elvis Presley to the Louisiana Hayride Country music program. The Hayride was presented weekly from 1948 until 1960 at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium; it was akin to Shreveport's temporary alternative to the permanent Grand Ole Opry of Nashville, Tennessee.
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Leon Gary Leon J. Gary, Sr. (July 27, 1912 – December 5, 2000), was a Democratic politician who served from 1946 to 1962 as the mayor of Houma, the seat of government for Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
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C. L. McCrary Curtis L. McCrary, Sr. (October 28, 1905 – September 24, 1989), was a businessman from Arcadia, Louisiana, who represented Bienville Parish as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives for a single term from 1960 to 1964. His service corresponded with the administration of Governor Jimmie Davis, a native of nearby Jackson Parish in North Louisiana.
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Paul B. Freeland Paul Butterfield Freeland (September 15, 1904 – November 1, 1976) was a Presbyterian minister, historian, philanthropist, and genealogist from Crowley, the seat of Acadia Parish in south Louisiana, United States.
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G. L. P. Wren George Lovich Pierce Wren, known as G. L. P. Wren (January 10, 1836 – February 8, 1901), was a native Georgian who served from 1884 to 1892 as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives as the sole member from his adopted Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. His tenure corresponded with the administrations of Governors Samuel Douglas McEnery and Francis T. Nicholls.
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Dave L. Pearce David L. "Dave" Pearce (September 8, 1905 – May 28, 1984), was a Democrat who served as the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry from 1952 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1976. Allied with anti-Long elements in the state, Pearce was unseated in the Democratic primary after a single term in 1956 by the Longite entomologist Sidney McCrory of Ascension Parish. However, Pearce unseated McCrory to regain the post in 1960 and then lost it again in Louisiana's first-ever nonpartisan blanket primary in 1975 to a fellow Democrat, Gil Dozier. He also failed in a 1979 campaign to reclaim the office.
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Randle T. Moore Randle Thomas Moore, Sr. (March 15, 1874 in Mooringsport – September 18, 1957 in Shreveport), was an eminent figure in the development of northwestern Louisiana during the latter part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Moore is best known to Louisiana history, of which he was a keen student, for a physical confrontation that he had on the streets of downtown Shreveport with the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr.
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Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1924 The Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1924 was held in two rounds on January 15 and February 19, 1924. Like most Southern states between the Reconstruction Era and the Civil Rights Movement, Louisiana's Republican Party was virtually nonexistent in terms of electoral support. This meant that the two Democratic Party primaries held on these dates were the real contest over who would be governor. The 1924 election saw Henry L. Fuqua defeat Hewitt Bouanchaud to become Governor of Louisiana, and saw the beginning of the political rise of Huey P. Long, who came in a surprisingly strong third.
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Edwin O. Ware, Sr. Edwin Oswald Ware, Sr. (October 29, 1853 – December 6, 1933), was a Southern Baptist clergyman and educator who was the principal founder of Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana. He was both the college financial agent, 1906 to 1907, and its first president from 1908 to 1909, when he was succeeded by W. C. Friley, who also remained at the helm only for one year.
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Addison Roswell Thompson Addison Roswell Thompson, known as A. Roswell Thompson or as Rozzy Thompson (November 14, 1911 – February 15, 1976), was a segregationist and white supremacist who ran as a perennial fringe candidate for governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana, mayor of New Orleans, and other offices as well on fourteen occasions between 1954 and 1975.
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A. P. Tugwell Andrew Patrick Tugwell, Sr., known as A. P. "Pat" Tugwell (November 7, 1889 – February 12, 1976), was the Democratic state treasurer of Louisiana from 1936-1968. His 32-year tenure in the position is a state record. Tugwell was considered an authority on state spending and receipts. Before he was elected treasurer, Tugwell was the director of the Louisiana Department of Highways, since renamed the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.
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Edwin Richardson Edwin Sanders Richardson, Sr., principally known as E. S. Richardson (August 31, 1875 – October 11, 1950), was an educator who served from August 14, 1936, until 1941 as the president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish. Previously, Richardson was the superintendent of schools in his native Webster Parish. The E.S. Richardson Elementary School at the intersection of
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Fillmore, Louisiana Fillmore is a populated place in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States. Fillmore, named for U.S. President Millard Fillmore