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Elbert Lee Guillory (born June 24, 1944) is a departing member of the Louisiana State Senate. An African-American Republican, he represents District 24, including his native Opelousas, Louisiana, and several rural precincts, until January 2016. Previously represented by the Democrat Don Cravins, Jr., Guillory's district encompasses most of Saint Landry Parish and a northern part of adjacent Lafayette Parish. Guillory previously served as state representative for District 40, having succeeded Democrat Don Cravins, Jr..〔 ==Background== Guillory was reared in a divorced family in St. Landry Parish. :''"My parents lived seven miles from each other on the same road. They were both always part of my life, but they could never live together. They were opposites."'' His Roman Catholic father, Ozema Ledee (died c. 2009), was an entrepreneur and an adventurer who flew his own plane, a rarity for a black man in the 1950s. He was also a bootlegger. Guillory's mother, who was still living in 2013 at the age of 104, was a strict Baptist who forbade alcohol and cursing in her home. She worked as a teacher and school principal.〔 Guillory had aspirations of becoming a physician, but switched to studying law. In 1961, he enrolled in historically black Southern University in Baton Rouge. As the editor of the university paper, ''The Digest'', he wrote an editorial in which he referred to U.S. Senator Allen J. Ellender, a Democrat from Houma, Louisiana, as a "lunatic", for which Guillory was expelled from Southern. He subsequently joined the Navy, obtained his Bachelor of Arts at another historically black institution, Norfolk State University, Virginia, and obtained his Juris doctor from Rutgers School of Law in Newark, New Jersey. He also attended a Baptist theological seminary in New York to study for the ministry, but was never ordained. From 1985 he practiced law in his native Opelousas.〔〔 〕 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「Elbert Guillory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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