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Jamar William Adcock (August 9, 1917 – December 22, 1991) was a high-profile banker and a Democratic state senator from Monroe, Louisiana, who served from 1960 to 1972. He was Senate president pro tempore in his third term from 1968 to 1972.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2004 )〕 A native of Richland Parish,〔"Adcock Will Headline Fair Opening Tuesday", ''Minden Press-Herald'', Minden, Louisiana, September 24, 1970, p. 1〕 located east of Monroe, Adcock attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he met two future political giants, John Julian McKeithen and Russell B. Long, both a year his junior. He served in the United States Army as major in the infantry during World War II.〔''Minden Press-Herald'', September 24, 1970〕 ==Running for lieutenant governor, 1971== In 1960, Adcock, along with Senator Russell Long and Louisiana Attorney General Jack P.F. Gremillion, was an at-large Louisiana delegate to the Democratic National Convention, which met in Los Angeles, California, to nominate the Kennedy-Johnson ticket.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louisiana delegation to the 1960 Democratic National Convention )〕 He had been an alternate to the 1956 convention which met in Chicago to field the Adlai E. Stevenson-Estes Kefauver ticket.〔Political Graveyard website: Jamar Adcock: http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adamske-aedanus.html#1LS1B2SXO〕 As a state senator, Adcock worked closely with the administration of Governor John McKeithen in regard to taxes and spending. In 1968, Adcock quarreled with Adras LaBorde, the managing editor of ''Alexandria Daily Town Talk'', who wrote a controversial column that maintained that Louisiana could save $100 million annually by trimming its state employees. LaBorde noted that no other Southern state had nearly so many state workers as Louisiana. Adcock retorted that those who make "blanket accusations ought to come down here and help us solve the problems."〔http://www.reggiefamilyarchives.com/876-9/20/1968.html〕 Early in 1971, Adcock pondered making his own gubernatorial bid to succeed McKeithen but declared that the state had so many problems that it might be "ungovernable." He proposed overall tax reform, changes in property tax assessments, and making more revenues available to municipalities. Adcock said that had he run for the top spot he could "only promise pain and suffering as we straighten these things out."〔"Adcock says state 'ungovernable'", ''Minden Press-Herald'', January 19, 1971, p. 1〕 After three terms, Adcock relinquished his Senate seat to seek his party's nomination, not for governor, but for lieutenant governor in the 1971 primary election. He was seeking to succeed three-term incumbent Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock of Franklin, the seat of St. Mary Parish. Aycock was running for governor but was not in the top tier of candidates despite his visibility and experience in state government. Two young men active in the Adcock campaign for lieutenant governor were Earl Casey of KNOE-TV in Monroe and later with CNN, and James Carville, a consultant originally based in New Orleans.〔Leo Honeycutt, ''Edwin Edwards: Governor of Louisiana'', 2009, p. 76〕 Adcock ran strongly enough in the first primary to gain a runoff berth with the front-running former New Orleans city councilman James Edward "Jimmy" Fitzmorris, Jr. In fact, with 250,850 votes, he trailed Fitzmorris by just over 6,000 votes. Eliminated in the primary were two candidates from Webster Parish east of Shreveport, state Representative Parey Branton, of Shongaloo and Edward Kennon, a Minden contractor and a nephew of former Governor Robert F. Kennon. Another unsuccessful candidate was P.J. Mills, like Adcock a banker and an outgoing state representative from Shreveport. Fitzmorris was a convincing winner in the second Democratic primary and went on to win all sixty-four parishes in his race with the Republican candidate, former State Representative Morley A. Hudson of Shreveport, in the general election held on February 1, 1972. After his ill-fated race for lieutenant governor, Adcock continued to support other Louisiana Democrats, including the state's then two powerful Democratic U.S. Senators Russell B. Long and J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. 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「Jamar Adcock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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