|
Shady Robert Wall (December 11, 1922 – September 4, 1985) was a banker and philanthropist from West Monroe in his native Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, who served nonconsecutively as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1948–1956 and 1968-1984.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016 )〕 Wall is remembered for his colorful dress, speeding in his Rolls Royce, flamboyant personality, gifts to local charity, and his penchant for packing a pistol in his boot holster. He was also an iron-fisted chairman of the House Retirement Committee in his later legislative tenure. ==Wall as a legislator== Wall's legislative tenure corresponded with the administrations of Governors Earl Kemp Long, Robert F. Kennon, John J. McKeithen, Edwin Washington Edwards, and David C. Treen. Of the governors between 1948 and 1984, Wall served under all except Jimmie Davis. At the start of his second term in the legislature, Wall, allied with Governor Kennon, challenged in 1952 the reelection of U.S. Representative Otto E. Passman of Monroe, whose service extended from 1947 to 1977. He polled only 7,199 votes to 28,404 for the popular incumbent.〔Ellen Blue, “Multi-Hued Racehorse, Two-Headed Goose, or Just a Chameleon?: ‘The Political Animal’: Otto Passman and the 1952 Gubernatorial Race in Louisiana”, ''North Louisiana History'' (Fall 2000), p. 27〕 Ron Gomez, a House colleague from Lafayette in Wall's last legislative term from 1980–1984, describes him, accordingly:
Gomez further describes Wall at fifty-eight as "a tall, well proportioned man () totally gray. He dressed with a flair. He wore white linen suits, brightly colored ties and ankle high boots. It was not uncommon for him to have a small revolver in an ankle holster tucked inside a boot. . . . As a younger man, he was quite dashing with a dazzling smile. But his most arresting features were his eyebrows . . . thick and black () shaped lie an upside down V and, combined with eyes that seemed to dance crazily when he grinned, gave him a devilish look."〔Ron Gomez, p. 70〕 Gomez recalls a day in the House in the early 1980s when Wall pulled a pistol on Representative Carl Gunter, Jr., of Deville in Rapides Parish after Gunter inadvertently disconnected Wall's conference call with his banking colleagues.〔Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71〕 At that point, the House sergeant-at-arms, Richard L. Barrios, and Representative John C. Ensminger, also of West Monroe, grabbed Wall to prevent him from harming the shaken Gunter.〔 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「Shady Wall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|