Thomas H. Hudson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Thomas H. Hudson

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1946

Place of Birth: Russellville, Arkansas, United States

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Thomas H. Hudson

  • Thomas H.
  • Hudson (born November 23, 1946), is a lawyer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who from 1976 to 1988 was a Democratic three-term member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 15, based about East Baton Rouge Parish.
  • He was the State Senate President Pro Tempore in his third term from 1984 to 1988.The son of Henry E.
  • Hudson and the former Cecile Stanford, Hudson was born in Russellville in Pope County in northwestern Arkansas.
  • He graduated from both Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge.
  • He is a Presbyterian.Hudson won the District 15 state Senate seat in the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary held on November 1, 1975.
  • He unseated incumbent J.
  • D.
  • DeBlieux, another Baton Rouge Democrat lawyer.
  • A favorite of the civil rights community, DeBlieux actually lost the African-American vote to Hudson because DeBlieux refused to give black ministers funding for their pledged support.
  • "You should be raising money for me and giving me money to help in my election.
  • I shouldn't be giving you money," DeBlieux told the clergymen.
  • He added that he never gave the ministers any funds.In 1986, while midway in his last Senate term, Hudson waged a challenge to Republican State Representative Richard Hugh Baker of Baton Rouge for Louisiana's 6th congressional district vacated by Republican Henson Moore, ran instead unsuccessfully for the U.S.
  • Senate seat vacated by Democrat Russell B.
  • Long.
  • Baker prevailed with 76,833 votes (51 percent) to Hudson's 67,774 (45 percent).
  • The remaining 6,120 votes (4 percent) was held by a second Democrat, Willis Erwin Blackwell, Sr.Hudson did not seek a fourth term in the Senate, an option no longer allowed for Louisiana lawmakers who are restricted to three terms.
  • He was succeeded by a fellow Democrat Baton Rouge lawyer, Larry S.
  • Bankston, son of local Democrat powerhouse Jesse Bankston.

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