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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: John Rarick, Thomas Porteous, Speedy Long, Jim Garrison, Leander Perez, Robert F. Kennon, Chet D. Traylor, Ernest Nathan Morial, Harmon Drew, Jr., Moon Landrieu, Robert Kostelka, Roy Brun, Stephen J. Windhorst, Guy Humphries, Jimmy Dimos, Kernan "Skip" Hand, Henry L. Yelverton, Francois Xavier Martin, Charles Cusimano, Fred S. LeBlanc, James E. Bolin, Coleman Lindsey, Richard W. Leche, Walter O. Bigby, Marcus R. Clark, B. Dexter Ryland, Carl E. Stewart, Carlos Spaht, Albert Estopinal, Jr., Bruce M. Bolin, O. E. Price, Mack Barham, David T. Caldwell, H. Welborn Ayres, Ronald Bodenheimer, Alexander Boarman, Rufus D. Hayes, Albert Tate, Jr., Charles Grisbaum, Jr., Robert P. "Bobby" Waddell, Benjamin Pavy, Elias Smith Dennis, Riley J. Wilson, Whitmell P. Martin, J. Frank McInnis, Alexander Porter, John N. Sandlin, James D. Simon, George A. Waggaman, Walter Guion, John T. Watkins, Henry Newton Brown, Jr., John Thornton, James L. Dennis, Eligius Fromentin, Scott Leehy, C. J. Bolin, Thomas Clark Nicholls, Cleveland Dear, J. Smith Young, Don Albert Pardee, Samuel T. Baird, Frederick Jacob Reagan Heebe. Excerpt: John Richard Rarick (January 29, 1924 - September 14, 2009) was a lawyer who served (1) as a Louisiana state district court judge from 1961 to 1966 in St. Francisville, Louisiana, the seat of West Feliciana Parish, and (2) as a Democratic U.S. representative from the Sixth Congressional District from 1967 to 1975. A staunch conservative, he frequently quarreled with his party's increasingly liberal philosophy and leadership. In 1980, he sought the presidency as the nominee of the former American Independent Party, originally founded in 1968 by George C. Wallace of Alabama. Rarick was born in rural Waterford in La Porte County in Indiana. He graduated from Goshen High School in Goshen, Indiana. He studied at Ball...