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James Harvey Boyce, Sr., known as Jimmy Boyce (October 6, 1922 – May 15, 1990) was a businessman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, who from 1972 to 1976 was the state chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party. During his tenure, the GOP carried the state in the reelection sweep of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and in the initial elections in 1972 and 1975 of the first Republican members from Louisiana to the United States House of Representatives since the Reconstruction era. ==Background== Boyce was born to the Iowa natives Clarence George Boyce (1887–1974) and the former Nora Leota Clark (1994–1984) in Carrollton in Carroll County in north central Missouri〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Harvey Boyce, Sr. )〕 but moved south to Baton Rouge because Clarence Boyce was engaged in the construction of levees along the Mississippi River. In 1939, James Boyce graduated from Baton Rouge High School and attended Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, and for a year, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.〔Obituary of James H. Boyce, ''Baton Rouge Morning Advocate'', May 16, 1990〕 From 1942 to 1943, Boyce was a United States Navy pilot during World War II. Boyce was the Baton Rouge dealer of the Caterpillar Company until his retirement in 1984 at the age of sixty-two.〔 His civic commitments included the Baton Rouge Area Foundation,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Funds and Affiliate: James H. and Jane T. Boyce Fund (established 1992) )〕 the Baton Rouge Airport Commission, Junior Achievement, the Better Business Bureau,〔 and the National Alliance of Business, a non-profit organization which existed from 1968 to 2002 with the goal of improving the quality of the work force in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Alliance of Business )〕 Boyce was an Episcopalian.〔 Boyce married the former Katherine Jane Thibaut (1921–2012), a native of Napoleonville in Assumption Parish in South Louisiana. After graduation from Napoleonville High School, she enrolled at Randolph College, then Randolph-Macon Woman's College, in Lynchburg, Virginia, from which she received a degree in chemistry in 1942. During the war, Jane Boyce became one of the first women chemists at the Standard Oil refinery (since Exxon-Mobil) in Baton Rouge. She was a member of the Roman Catholic Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre and served on the Baton Rouge Catholic Diocese School Board. She was a founder and board chairman of St. Michael the Archangel High School. Jane Boyce was also a founder and board member of the Louisiana Arts and Science Museum, which is housed in Baton Rouge in the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot. She was a board member and chairman of the board of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jane Thibaut Boyce, May 10, 2012 )〕 The Boyces have three sons, James H. Boyce, Jr. (born November 1943), John Clark Boyce (born January 1945) and wife Melanie, and Jerry Thibaut Boyce, Sr. (born August 1950) and wife Barbara.〔 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「James Boyce (Louisiana politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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