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Mary Virginia Wheadon deGravelles (born December 4, 1915) is a retiree from Lafayette who was the Louisiana Republican national committeewoman from 1964–1968, a position which constitutes automatic membership on the Republican National Committee. Her husband, Charles Camille deGravelles, Jr. (1913–2008), an oil and gas landman, was the state party chairman from 1968–1972 and is considered to have been one of the founders of the modern Louisiana GOP. In 1968, when Mrs. deGravelles (pronounced DE GRA VELLES) vacated the national committee position, her state party had only 28,427 registered members, barely 2 percent of the state's voters.〔State of Louisiana, “Statement of Registered Voters as of October 5, 1968”, Baton Rouge: Louisiana Secretary of State〕 For a brief time in 1968, both deGravelleses were on the Republican National Committee, a husband-wife combination that has not since repeated itself.〔''Baton Rouge Morning Advocate'', August 29, 2008, p. 1B:http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/27645194.html〕 ==Family and education== Virginia deGravelles (pronounced De GRA Vell) was born in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish and the largest city in Central Louisiana, to John Samuel Butler Wheadon (1883-1952) and the former Anna Kilpatrick (1887-1970) and are interred at Mt. Olivet Episcopal Cemetery in Pineville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mt. Olivet Cemetery burials )〕 Her father managed the former Rapides Hotel, built in 1898 at the intersection of Second and Washington streets. Its three stories contained sixty-four rooms and an excellent restaurant. An elevator was added in 1914. Wheadon also leased the Stonewall Hotel at Third and Jackson streets.〔Frederick M. Spletstoser, ''Talk of the Town: The Rise of Alexandria, Louisiana, and the Daily Town Talk'', Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005, pp. 109, 236〕 The building was torn down about 1960. Mrs. Anna Wheadon was a homemaker and a legal secretary. Virginia lived next door for a time to the family of Nauman Steele Scott, I. Nauman Scott, II (1916–2001), with whom she recalls having ridden tricycles together, became a Republican-appointed U.S. District Judge in the Western District of Louisiana, based in Alexandria. Virginia's grandfather was a sheriff, and her great-grandfather was a judge. She graduated from Bolton High School in Alexandria in 1931, then the only public high school available, and attended Northwestern State University (then Louisiana Normal School) in Natchitoches for two years. Thereafter, she transferred to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where she received her degree in education and met Charles, who grew up in Thibodaux, the seat of Lafourche Parish.〔Statement of Virginia W. deGravelles, July 2006〕 In 1960, Mrs. deGravelles completed graduate studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.〔''Who's Who in America'', 1968-1969, p. 572〕 On September 14, 1935, the couple eloped and were wed by a justice of the peace in Woodville in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. They had five children, twin sons from Baton Rouge (born 1949) and three daughters, one, Mary Alix deGravelles, deceased. The sons are Charles Nations deGravelles, a former Episcopal archdeacon, and John Wheadon deGravelles, an attorney and a Democrat who in 2014 became a judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, under appointment of U.S. President Barack H. Obama. The daughters are Elizabeth Claire Cloninger (husband Spike Cloninger), a writer of books and contemporary Christian music in Fairhope in Baldwin County near Mobile, and Virginia Ann McBride Norton of Bali, Indonesia. Son-in-law Ed Norton works for the Nature Conservancy on ecological issues, while Ann is a photographer with her own company, Photo Voice. In 2008, Mrs. deGravelles had thirteen grandchildren, sixteen great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.〔(Charles C. deGravelles Obituary: View Charles deGravelles's Obituary by The Advocate )〕 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「Virginia deGravelles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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