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David Grove Stafford, Sr., known as Grove Stafford (September 26, 1897 – June 21, 1975), was an attorney in Alexandria, Louisiana, who represented Rapides Parish as a Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate for two terms from 1940 to 1948 during the administrations of Governors Sam Houston Jones and Jimmie Davis. Under Davis, Stafford was the State Senate President Pro Tempore.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership of the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-Present: Rapides Parish )〕 Descended from two prominent families, Stafford was the fifth of eight children of Leroy Augustus Stafford, Jr. (1869-1923), an Alexandria native and a graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. His grandfather, also named Leroy Augustus Stafford, was a general for the Confederate States of America in the Civil War who was mortally wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness. His uncle, David Theophilus Stafford, was a four-term Rapides Parish sheriff from 1888 to 1904.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leroy Augustus Stafford, Jr. (father of Grove Stafford) )〕 Stafford's mother, the former Bertha Moore Hyams (1870-1959), was a granddaughter of Louisiana Civil War Governor Thomas Overton Moore. The youngest of Stafford's siblings, Thomas Overton Moore Stafford (1905-1973),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bertha Moore Hyams Stafford (mother of Grove Stafford) )〕 was an uncle by marriage of the late U.S. Representative Harold B. McSween of Louisiana's 8th congressional district, since disbanded.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alice McSween Stafford (sister-in-law of Grove Stafford) )〕 Grove Stafford and his wife, the former Emily Gaiennie (1903-1974), had four children, Alexandria attorney Grove Stafford, Jr.; Emily Stafford Brame McNeely (1926-1997), who died in Crowley in Acadia Parish; Margaret "Patti" Daniel, and George Mason Graham Stafford.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David Grove Stafford, Sr. )〕 Stafford was succeeded in the state Senate in 1948 by C. H. "Sammy" Downs and the return of Earl Kemp Long to the governorship.〔 He subsequently served on the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors in the administration of Long's second successor, Robert F. Kennon. He was a defendant in the appeal of a suit brought forth from 1953 to 1955 against LSU by the African-American civil rights attorney A. P. Tureaud of New Orleans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University Agricultural and Mechanical et al, Appellants, v. Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr., a Minor, by Alexander P. Tureaud, Sr., his father, Appellee )〕 Stafford died in Alexandria at the age of seventy-eight and is interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, alongside his wife.〔 Grove Stafford, Jr. (born December 1928), a Republican,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grove Stafford, December 1928 )〕 graduated from the Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans and is affiliated with the Alexandria firm Stafford, Stewart and Potter,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David G. Stafford )〕 formerly Stafford and Pitts. ==References== 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「Grove Stafford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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