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Ben F. Holt
Benjamin F. Holt (November 1, 1925 – September 18, 1995), known as Ben F. Holt, was a conservative Democrat from Pineville, Louisiana, who served a single term in the Louisiana House of Representatives from Rapides Parish from 1956 to 1960, during the administration of Governor Earl Kemp Long.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012 )〕
==Political career==
In the legislature, Holt emerged as a frequent critic of the Long administration. He opposed Long's attempt in a special session to remove Theo Cangelosi of Baton Rouge from the chairmanship of the Louisiana State University board of trustees. Long quarreled with his former friend Cangelosi regarding Long's divorce from his wife, Blanche R. Long, and Long's brief confinement in 1959 to a mental institution. Holt claimed that Cangelosi's removal for personal reasons would hurt the national image of LSU and weaken the institution.〔"Fight Looms on Cangelois Firing Issue", ''Ruston Daily Leader'', July 28, 1959, p. 1〕
In 1960, after he had left the legislature, Holt was a member of the Louisiana State Democratic Central Committee and allied with the forces opposed to the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. Along with the controversial segregationist and political boss, Judge Leander Perez of Plaquemines Parish in south Louisiana,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kennedy Group )〕 Holt supported free or unpledged electors, rather than the national-oriented slate organized by Edmund Reggie, later the father-in-law of U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. That movement coalesced in the since defunct Louisiana States Rights' Party, which carried for that election the support of such public figures as the 1959 gubernatorial candidate William M. Rainach, former U.S. Representative Jared Y. Sanders, Jr., later Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives John Sidney Garrett, and future Republican Governor David C. Treen.〔Glen Jeansonne, ''Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta'' (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1977 and 2006, ISBN 1-57806-917-3), p. 318〕〔''Alexandria Daily Town Talk'', November 7, 1960, p. 2〕 Nevertheless, Kennedy was an easy winner in Louisiana over the Republican candidate, Vice President Richard M. Nixon.〔State of Louisiana, General election returns, November 8, 1960〕
In the summer of 1960, Holt ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 8th congressional district, since disbanded because of population loss. Holt was eliminated from the runoff election between former Governor Earl Long and the short-term incumbent Representative Harold B. McSween of Alexandria. Long died a few days after his final election victory; the seat still went to McSween, who was chosen as the party nominee by the Democratic State Central Committee, of which Holt was a member. Holt attended Long's burial in Winnfield and described the vacuum left in Democratic ranks by the former governor's untimely death.〔''Lake Charles American Press'', September 9, 1960, p. 6〕
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