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Ronald James Gomez, Sr., known as Ron Gomez (born October 18, 1934), is a veteran print and broadcast journalist, author, and businessman from Lafayette, Louisiana, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lafayette Parish, from 1980 to 1989.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012 ) 〕 From 1990-1992, he was the secretary of natural resources in the cabinet of Governor Buddy Roemer. In 1992, Gomez, as a Democrat, launched a strong but unsuccessful campaign for mayor of Lafayette. He ran for office each time as a "good government reform" candidate without emphasis on party affiliation. ==Early years and education== Gomez's paternal grandfather was Antoine "Neat" Gomez, who was of both French and Spanish descent and spoke both languages from birth. He married a fully French woman named Marie Griffon, Gomez's grandmother. Gomez's third novel. entitled ''Neat'', is based on the life of his grandfather, who lived to be 101. Gomez's maternal grandfather was John Alleman, fully French, and married to a French woman by the name of Lambert. She died when Gomez's mother was only twelve. Gomez's heritage is hence at least three-fourths French.〔Statement of Ron Gomez, February 11, 2010〕 Gomez was born and reared in Baton Rouge to Laurence Fletcher Gomez (1897–1964) and the former Anastasie Marie Alleman (1896–1983),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕 originally from Donaldsonville, the seat of Ascension Parish. The senior Gomez served during World War I in the United States Army infantry in France. Laurence Gomez had nine siblings and spoke only French until he entered school. Similarly, Anastasie Gomez and her six siblings were brought up speaking only French. Originally a farm couple, the Gomezes moved to Baton Rouge in the 1920s and reared five children. Laurence Gomez first worked for the Standard Oil Company refinery in Baton Rouge but prior to the Great Depression procured a position as a rural letter carrier from the downtown United States Post Office in Baton Rouge. Ron Gomez says that his father could have been jobless during the depression had he not found the low-paying but steady postal position. Ron Gomez was born at home in the 1800 block of Highland Road in Baton Rouge, the last baby that Mrs. Gomez's physician delivered at home; thereafter, the doctor handled all of his deliveries in a hospital. In 1940, the family moved to a house on Ferndale Avenue in the University Gardens subdivision near the Louisiana State University campus.〔Ron Gomez, ''My Name Is Ron And I'm a Recovering Legislator: Memoirs of a Louisiana State Representative'', Lafayette, Louisiana: Zemog Publishing, 2000, pp. 3,5 ISBN 0-9700156-0-7〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Legislator Says He Will Challenge Seating of Duke, February 21, 1989 )〕 When Huey Pierce Long, Jr., was assassinated in September 1935, Gomez was less than a year old. His mother placed him in a stroller and went to the new Louisiana State Capitol building to stand in line as citizens shuffled through to pay their respects. Gomez said that his mother was not necessarily a Long supporter but wanted to participate in an historic event of such magnitude. It was Long who had directed the building of the skyscraper-shaped capitol in only fifteen months from 1930-1931.〔Gomez, ''Recovering Legislator'' p. 4〕 As a boy growing up in Baton Rouge, Gomez said that he felt a kinship with the capitol building because of its physical, political, and cultural dominance of the city. He played in the downtown area during the 1940s, spending time in parks and theaters, while his mother worked as a seamstress at a department store. His two brothers, Griffin (1923–2009) and Hewitt Gomez, and two sisters, Dorothy Frazee and Elaine Cortelloni, were already grown by that time; both brothers served in World War II.〔Gomez, ''Recovering Legislator'', pp. 4-6, 12-14〕 Gomez graduated in 1952 from Baton Rouge High School and attended Louisiana State University (LSU) for one year before enlisting in the United States Air Force. Thereafter, he enrolled for a single semester at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.〔 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「Ron Gomez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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