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American politician
J. Emile Verret
(September 13, 1885 ? February 9, 1965) was a
Louisiana
politician who served as
lieutenant governor Louisiana
from 1944 to 1948.
Born in
Iberia Parish, Louisiana
, Verret received an undergraduate degree from
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
(then the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute) in 1905, and attended
Soule Business College
in
New Orleans
.
[1]
In 1947, during his service as lieutenant governor, when Governor Jimmie Davis was out of state and a hurricane forced the evacuation of the capital, Verret signed a proclamation declaring his house in New Iberia to be the acting state capitol for the day.
[2]
The
Daily Iberian
republished this article fifty years later. He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus.
[3]
Veret died on February 9, 1965, and is interred at St. Peter's cemetery, New Iberia, Louisiana.
[3]
Notes
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edit
]
- ^
Guide officiel des Franco-Americains
(1946), p. 364-65.
- ^
"New Iberia Serving As State Capital For the Day!",
Daily Iberian
(September 19, 1947), p. 1.
- ^
a
b
"J. Emile Verret Papers"
.
University Libraries
. September 15, 2016
. Retrieved
March 12,
2024
.
References
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edit
]
- "J. Emile Verret",
A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography
, Vol. 2 (1988), p. 810
- William J. "Bill" Dodd,
Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics
, Baton Rouge: Claitor's, 1991
- Lafayette Daily Advertiser
, February 10, 1965