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Morley Alvin Hudson (March 31, 1917 – June 15, 2001),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕 was a Shreveport businessman, engineer, civic leader, and a pioneer of the modern Republican Party in Louisiana. Hudson was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Oscar Hudson and the former Ruth Morley. His maternal grandfather, Stephen Kay Morley, was a pharmacist in early Austin, Texas, who patented old-time remedies that were popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In youth, he was an Eagle Scout. Hudson graduated ''cum laude'' from Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, with a degree in mechanical engineering. From 1938 to 1940, he played football for the Green Bay Packers under Coach Curly Lambeau. During World War II, he was a captain in the U.S. Army Infantry Reserves. When he relocated to Shreveport in 1945, Hudson became president of the Hudson-Rush Company of Shreveport and Dallas, which specialized in industrial process equipment. He also was one of the original partners of Pelican Supply Company and McElroy Metals in Shreveport. In 1956, Hudson ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the Caddo Parish School Board. ==First Republicans in legislature (1964-1968)== Elected on the Republican ticket headed by the gubernatorial nominee, Charlton Lyons, a Shreveport oilman, Hudson and Taylor W. O'Hearn were the first two Republicans to have been elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction. They were joined in the Caddo Parish delegation by Democrats Algie D. Brown, Frank Fulco, and newcomer J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., later a member of both the Louisiana State Senate and the United States Senate. Veteran Democratic lawmaker Wellborn Jack, a Shreveport lawyer, finished in sixth place for the five seats at stake.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012 )〕 Three Caddo Republican legislative candidates who lost in 1964 were Billy Guin, who in 1977 was elected as the last Shreveport commissioner of public utilities; Edd Fielder Calhoun (1931–2012), an insurance agent and civic figure originally from Oklahoma City,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary of Fielder Calhoun )〕 and Art Sour, who made his livelihood in the oil business. Sour lost again in 1968 but rebounded in 1972 to win a seat in the state House, which he subsequently held for twenty years. Hudson was a Louisiana delegate to the Republican national conventions held in San Francisco in 1964 and in Miami Beach in 1968 and 1972. Hudson was the self-proclaimed Louisiana House "minority leader" between 1964 and 1968 because he had outpolled O'Hearn in the balloting. In 1966, he obtained passage of a bill to grant in-state college students the same right to vote absentee as permitted to out-of-state students. His record was primarily focused on fiscal and management reform of state government. He worked for legislation to eliminate in public buildings architectural barriers to the handicapped and to restrict the issuance of driver's licenses to persons under the age of sixteen. In the 1966 legislative session, Hudson introduced legislation to reform the Louisiana worker's compensation act. He proposed a bill to upgrade the quality of education, a measure advocated by the Chamber of Commerce which would have required teachers to demonstrate basic qualifications in their field beyond the receipt of their college credentials.〔 Two other Republicans joined Hudson and O'Hearn later in their term: Roderick L. "Rod" Miller of Lafayette in 1966 and Edward Clark Gaudin of Baton Rouge in 1967. Miller was defeated in a bid for the Louisiana State Senate on February 6, 1968. Gaudin was defeated for reelection to the House in 1968 but returned to the legislature in 1972 and like Art Sour served for another twenty years. In the spring of 1969, Hudson leaped to the defense of newly-inaugurated U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, whom some conservatives had begun to criticize for the continued expansion of liberal programs. In a speech in Minden, Hudson stressed that Congress had changed little in the 1968 elections despite Nixon's narrow defeat of the Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey: "Most of the Congress comes from liberal areas and from areas where a liberal press dominates."〔"Hudson: Nixon Doing Fine Job Despite Opposition, Lions Are Told", ''Minden Press-Herald'', April 11, 1969, p. 1〕 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「Morley A. Hudson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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