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Joseph David Waggonner, Jr. (September 7, 1918 – October 7, 2007), better known as Joe D. Waggonner, was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Bossier Parish, Louisiana, who represented Louisiana's 4th congressional district from December 1961 until January 1979. A confidant of Republican U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, he hosted in 1974 Nixon's first public appearance after his resignation amid the Watergate scandal. ==Waggonner's background== Waggonner was born in Plain Dealing to Joe David Waggonner, Sr. (June 11, 1873 – March 9, 1950), and the former Elizzibeth Johnston (November 23, 1882 – December 24, 1957).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Plain Dealing Cemetery interments )〕 He graduated from Plain Dealing High School and in 1941 from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma. On December 14, 1942, he married the former Mary Ruth Carter (born February 1921) and a Democrat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mary Waggonner, February 1921 )〕 The couple resided in their later years in Benton, the seat of government of Bossier Parish, and then in the more populous Bossier City. During World War II and the Korean War, Waggonner served in the U.S. Navy, having attained the rank of lieutenant commander. He remained thereafter in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was first elected to public office in 1954 to a seat on the Bossier Parish School Board, of which he was president from 1956 to 1957. In 1959, Waggonner ran in the Democratic primary for the position of Louisiana state comptroller, previously known as auditor. He was defeated for the nomination by Roy R. Theriot, the mayor of Abbeville in Vermilion Parish in south Louisiana. Waggonner ran on the intraparty ticket headed by segregationist gubernatorial candidate William M. Rainach, a state senator from Claiborne Parish.〔''Minden Press-Herald'', November 13, 1959, p. 13.〕 Shortly thereafter on July 23, 1960, Waggonner was nominated in the Democratic primary to the Louisiana State Board of Education, now the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Waggonner won the seat for the Third Public Service Commission District, a configuration since disbanded that then included twenty-eight north Louisiana parishes. Waggonner unseated the incumbent, C. Raymond Heard, and was then unopposed in the November 8 general election. In this campaign, Waggonner posed as a more determined segregationist than his opponent.〔''Minden Press'', July 25, 1960, p. 1〕 One of his advertisements proclaimed: "For: Our Youth and Segregation; Against: Federal Aid to Education."〔Waggonner advertisement, ''Minden Press'', July 18, 1960, p. 5〕 On November 8, 1960, Waggonner, along with Rainach, David C. Treen, and Leander Perez, was among the ten presidential electors for an unpledged slate in Louisiana which opposed the election of both John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon for U.S. President. Nixon won the Fourth Congressional District, but Kennedy took a strong plurality in the balloting statewide. In 1961, Waggonner was chosen president of (1) the Louisiana School Boards Association and (2) the United Schools Committee of Louisiana. He had also been instrumental, along with Rainach, in the founding of the White Citizens Council in the late 1950s. Waggonner ran a wholesale petroleum products distribution agency that serviced northern Bossier Parish. 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 Waggonner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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