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Edmund Reggie
Politician + Lawyer
Male
Born
Jul 19, 1926
Age
86
Edmund M. Reggie, Sr., is a Democratic politician and former city judge from Louisiana. Reggie is originally from the rice-growing city of Crowley, the seat of Acadia Parish, but resides in Lafayette. He still claims that he maintains the record of being… Read More
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Edmund Reggie
Age 86
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Kennedy's Closest Confidante, In Politics And LifeNYTimes - Aug 29, 2009
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Tbr; Tbr: Inside The ListNYTimes - Mar 15, 2009
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More Hospital Tests For KennedyNYTimes - May 20, 2008
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Louisiana Scholarships Have Political PedigreeNYTimes - Oct 17, 1995
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1926
Birth
Born in 1926.
TWENTIES
1946
20 Years Old
Reggie was born in Crowley of Lebanese immigrant parents. He received a bachelor's degree from Southwestern Louisiana Institute in Lafayette (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in 1946 and a law degree from the Tulane University Law School in 1949.
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THIRTIES
1956
30 Years Old
At the 1956 Democratic National Convention, with the Louisiana and Massachusetts state delegations sitting across the aisle from each other, he brokered the delegation's support for Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy for Vice President (on a ticket with Adlai Stevenson), rather than Senator Estes Kefauver (who was preferred by Louisiana Governor Earl Long)
1960
34 Years Old
For the 1960 US Presidential Election, Reggie was a leader in John F. Kennedy's Louisiana campaign, starting with his 1959 invitation of Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, to attend the International Rice Festival in Crowley as honored guests, affording Kennedy the opportunity to address a crowd of 130,000 people. where they were greeted by enthusiastic crowds—the largest JFK addressed prior to his Democratic presidential nomination in July 1960.
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Following his inauguration, President Kennedy sent Reggie on a 1961 State Department cultural exchange to the Middle East where in Lebanon he was given a hero's welcome in his parents' hometown of Ihden.
1963
37 Years Old
In 1963, Reggie introduced the young political consultant Gus Weill of Lafayette to Louisiana Public Service Commissioner John J. McKeithen, who retained Weill to manage his gubernatorial campaign.
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FORTIES
In 1968, Judge Reggie spearheaded the Robert F. Kennedy presidential primary campaign in Louisiana.
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1971
45 Years Old
In the 1971 Democratic gubernatorial primary, Reggie supported not his Crowley friend, Edwin Washington Edwards, but former Governor Jimmie Davis, one of the more conservative candidates in the crowded field.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1992
66 Years Old
In 1992, his daughter, Victoria, married U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.
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2004
78 Years Old
In 2004, Reggie was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, Louisiana.
2008
82 Years Old
In May 2008, the Louisiana Department of Culture and Tourism declared the location where JFK delivered his 1959 International Rice Festival speech in Crowley as an area of historical significance, and erected a historical marker.
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