• John Julian McKeithen (May 28, 1918 – June 4, 1999) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th governor of Louisiana from 1964 to 1972...
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  • Look up McKeithen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. McKeithen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John McKeithen (1918–1999), American...
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    election was held on February 4, 1968. Incumbent Democratic governor John McKeithen was re-elected to a second term in office. This was the first election...
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    Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on March 3, 1964. Democrat John McKeithen won a highly-competitive primary and dispatched Republican Charlton...
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  • promotion of historical preservation. McKeithen was born in rural Columbia, Louisiana to John Julian McKeithen and the former Marjorie Howell Funderburk...
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    of Columbia University in New York City. Soon Governor of Louisiana John McKeithen appointed Perlman as state budget director, where he served from 1967...
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    political springboard for former governors Huey Long, Jimmie Davis, and John McKeithen. Skrmetta is a member of the Republican Party. After finishing Brother...
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  • Davis' second term as governor, his admirers were disappointed when Gov. John McKeithen vetoed a bill in 1968 that would have made "You Are My Sunshine" Louisiana's...
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    campaigns and political messaging for Louisiana governors Jimmie Davis, John McKeithen, Edwin Edwards, and U.S. Representative Otto Passman. In the early 1980s...
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    second term, a rule that was changed in the mid-1980s. In Louisiana, John McKeithen was the first governor to serve two consecutive terms after an amendment...
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  • of John McKeithen. Marjorie McKeithen (born 1965), candidate for U.S. Representative from Louisiana 1998. Daughter of W. Fox McKeithen. Thomas McKean...
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  • David Dixon and politicians such as Congressmen Hale Boggs and Governor John McKeithen, which would play in the 1967 season. William G. Helis Jr., Herman Lay...
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    of the Bayou. Knopf, 1987. Maginnis, John. The Last Hayride. Baton Rouge: Gris Gris Press, 1984. Maginnis, John. Cross to Bear. Baton Rouge: Darkhorse...
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    in this historic Shreveport house in the Highlands neighborhood. It was formerly owned by the Eglins, the maternal grandparents of John J. McKeithen....
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    was reduced to 30 cents on July 1, 1962. While running for governor John McKeithen published a campaign promise to remove the toll if he were elected,...
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    lobbying by LSU athletic director Carl Maddox and Louisiana Governor John McKeithen. Kentucky always kept its coaching and athletic director positions separate...
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    South Carolina (Robert McNair), North Carolina (Dan Moore), Maine (Edmund Muskie), Texas (John Connally), Louisiana (John McKeithen), Tennessee (Buford Ellington)...
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    support of the governor of Louisiana, John McKeithen. When they toured the Astrodome in Houston, Texas in 1966, McKeithen was quoted as saying, "I want one...
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    authorization from the Louisiana Legislature and Louisiana Governor John McKeithen in time to display the flag for Earth Day. As part of an Earth Week...
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    Louisiana Democratic Party rejected a challenge by former Governor John McKeithen to reopen qualifying following Ellender's death, ordering the primary...
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    State Fox McKeithen, who withdrew from a 1990 U.S. Senate bid, actively explored a gubernatorial bid. His father, former Governor John McKeithen, would prove...
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    at the time, a rule that was changed in the mid-1980s. In Louisiana, John McKeithen had been allowed a second term due to a new rule enacted that allowed...
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  • Representatives. She was the campaign manager for John McKeithen's successful 1964 bid for governor of Louisiana. McKeithen had been the state house floor manager...
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  • wrangling between labor unions and Louisiana politicians, led by Governor John McKeithen, led to a lengthy delay in construction, and groundbreaking did not...
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  • FBI documents (through FOIA) reported in 2016, former state governor John McKeithen, with the help of the organization had privately raised money for Ku...
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    including 14 police officers. In response, then-Louisiana Governor John McKeithen ordered 700 members of the Louisiana National Guard to patrol the streets...
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  • legislature from Rapides Parish and advisor to governors Earl Kemp Long and John McKeithen R. Harmon Drew, Sr., Law school, state representative and Minden city...
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    unsuccessful run for governor of Louisiana, losing to incumbent Democrat John McKeithen by a wide margin. Running for re-election to a fifth term, Rarick was...
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    Reconstruction, and Republican leaders believed McKeithen's presence in the race could split the Democratic vote. McKeithen ran a populist, agrarian campaign against...
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  • 2023. Sobel 1978, p. 590. "John Julian McKeithen". National Governors Association. Retrieved March 2, 2023. "John J, McKeithen". Secretary of State of Louisiana...
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