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Joseph T. Cawthorn, known as Joe T. Cawthorn (October 1, 1911 – November 11, 1967),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mt. Olivet Cemetery )〕 was an attorney, businessman, and a Democratic politician from Mansfield in DeSoto Parish in northwestern Louisiana. He was affiliated with the Long faction of state politics. ==Political and legal career== Cawthorn was born in the unincorporated Selma near another rural community, Georgetown, in northeastern Grant Parish. He graduated from Oak Grove High School in Oak Grove in West Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana. In 1932, he received his law degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge. In 1940, Cawthorn was elected to the Louisiana State Senate from a district encompassing both DeSoto and the neighboring and much larger Caddo Parish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2011 )〕 In his one term, during the administration of Governor Sam Houston Jones, Cawthorn chaired the Senate Finance Committee but became a persistent critic of Jones, after Jones split politically with former Governor James A. Noe of Monroe, Cawthorn's political mentor. Cawthorn accused Jones of "waste and inefficiency" in state government. In 1944, Cawthorn did not seek re-election to the state Senate but instead ran a strong though unsuccessful race for Attorney General of Louisiana against fellow Democrat Fred S. LeBlanc of Baton Rouge, who carried the backing of Jimmie Davis. Known for his singing career too, Davis was elected that year to the first of his two non-consecutive gubernatorial terms. By then, Cawthorn was allied with Earl Kemp Long, the former and future governor who ran unsuccessfully in 1944 for lieutenant governor, a post that Long had also held from 1936 to 1939 under then Governor Richard Leche. Cawthorn and other Long-endorsed candidates had led in the first primary but fell short in the runoff election as J. Emile Verret of Iberia Parish defeated Long for lieutenant governor. In May 1946, Cawthorn was convicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana for his role as the attorney in an income tax evasion and jury tampering case against businessman William T. Burton, former Governor Noe, and Marcel F. La Branche, a juror. Cawthorn, Burton, and La Branche were found guilty and each sentenced to two years in prison and fined $10,000, but Noe was acquitted. The three lost their appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. As a result of his conviction, Cawthorn was disbarred. In October 1964, Cawthorn was appointed to head the Johnson-Humphrey campaign for DeSoto Parish.〔 However, the parish voted 75.9 percent for the Republican Goldwater-Miller slate. Goldwater was only the second Republican since 1876 to carry the Louisiana electoral vote.〔''Shreveport Journal'', November 4, 1964, p. 1〕 Cawthorn also sat on the steering committee of the Johnson campaign for Louisiana's 4th congressional district,〔 in which U.S. Representative Joe Waggonner, a Democrat, was unopposed for his second full term in office. In a suit heard in 1966 seeking to reclaim $160,000 to the estate of her late husband, Blanche Long, the widow of former Governor Earl Long, indicated that on or about August 20, 1960, Cawthorn delivered $6,000 in cash in Marksville in Avoyelles Parish to Long. Some two weeks later, Long died after victory in a campaign against fellow Democrat Harold B. McSween for Louisiana's 8th congressional district seat, since disbanded. Cawthorn was later reinstated to the practice of law. He owned the Melody Ranch at Mansfield and operated Mammoth Finance Company in Shreveport. He was also a petroleum investor.〔 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「Joe T. Cawthorn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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