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Claude Kirkpatrick (June 17, 1917 – January 14, 1997)〔Social Security Death Index:http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi〕 was a diversified businessman who served two terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives (1952 to 1960), worked to establish Toledo Bend Reservoir through his directorship of the state Department of Public Works (1960 to 1964), and was the administrator and then president of Baton Rouge General Medical Center (1967 to 1982). Kirkpatrick ran unsuccessfully for governor in the 1963 Democratic gubernatorial primary. In his later years, he built three shopping centers in Baton Rouge. He was also active in various state and national organizations of the Southern Baptist Convention. ==Early years, education, family== Kirkpatrick (no middle name) was born in Glenmora in south Rapides Parish, Louisiana, to Eugene Kirkpatrick (died 1956) and the former Arlie Gill (died 1981). The senior Kirkpatrick operated a sawmill in Glenmora and then, when Claude was six years of age, relocated to Lake Charles, the seat of Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana. He was a tie inspector servicing the Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas area for Southern Pacific Railroad. Claude attended public schools there and graduated in 1934 from Lake Charles High School.〔Statement of Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick, September 8, 2008.〕 He then enrolled at Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville and in 1938 received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history.〔''Baptist Message'' newspaper:http://www.baptistmessage.com/articledetail.php?articleID=1592〕 There, Kirkpatrick met his future wife, the former Edith Aurelia Killgore (born November 14, 1918) of Lisbon in Claiborne Parish in north Louisiana. They married in 1938 after both graduated from college.〔 Prior to and during World War II, Kirkpatrick worked in petroleum production in Sulphur in Calcasieu Parish. He twice volunteered for military service but was told to remain in an essential war-related industry. In 1945, the couple moved to Jennings, the seat of Jeff Davis Parish. There, they operated four businesses: a DeSoto-Plymouth automobile dealership, a lumber company, a trucking firm, and a sporting goods store. The Kirkpatricks had four children: Claude Kent Kirkpatrick (1942–1945), Thomas Killgore Kirkpatrick, I (August 19, 1944 – October 13, 2009),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary of Colonel Thomas Killgore Kirkpatrick )〕 Edith Kay Kirkpatrick (born 1946), and Charles Kris Kirkpatrick (born 1948). Both surviving children are attorneys in Baton Rouge.〔 Colonel Thomas Kilgore Kirkpatrick (son of Claude Kirkpatrick); an attorney who received a Juris Doctor degree from Louisiana State University, began a 30-year military service in 1969 as a private in the United States Army. He obtained a commission in the Judge Advocate General's Corps and served four years on active duty, having reached the rank of captain. He joined the Louisiana National Guard in 1975 and served as a military judge, state judge advocate, and retired commander of the 61st Troop Command. Kirkpatrick also served as general scounsel of the National Guard Association of the United States. His many military citations included Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal with two Bronze Oak Leaf clusters, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal with four Bronze Oak Leaf clusters, National Defense Service Medal with one Bronze service star, and the Vietnam Service Medal. After retiring from the private practice of law in Baton Rouge, Kirkpatrick assumed the director's position with the National Guard's Youth Challenge program. His final government service was as general counsel for the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Under Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, he was named the state coordinating officer and alternate Governor's authorized representative for the relief of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Thomas Kirkpatrick, who died of cancer at the age of sixty-five, was married to the former Sandra Futrell of Pineville and was the father of two children, Thomas Kirkpatrick, II, and Mildred Kathleen Kirkpatrick.〔 Sandra Kirkpatrick's father was P. Elmo Futrell, Jr., the mayor of Pineville in the early 1960s and a prominent Baptist layman.〔"Services set for former Pineville Mayor Futrell", ''Alexandria Daily Town Talk''[, December 6, 1993, p. D-3〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claude Kirkpatrick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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