Grove Stafford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Grove Stafford

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1897

Place of Birth: Alexandria, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 21-Jun-1975

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Grove Stafford

  • David Grove Stafford, Sr., known as Grove Stafford (September 26, 1897 – June 21, 1975), was an attorney in Alexandria, Louisiana, who represented Rapides Parish as a Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate for two terms from 1940 to 1948 during the administrations of Governors Sam Houston Jones and Jimmie Davis.
  • Under Davis, Stafford was the State Senate President Pro Tempore.Descended from two prominent families, Stafford was the fifth of eight children of Leroy Augustus Stafford, Jr.
  • (1869-1923), an Alexandria native and a graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
  • His grandfather, also named Leroy Augustus Stafford, was a general for the Confederate States of America in the Civil War who was mortally wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness.
  • His uncle, David Theophilus Stafford, was a four-term Rapides Parish sheriff from 1888 to 1904.
  • Stafford's mother, the former Bertha Moore Hyams (1870-1959), was a granddaughter of Louisiana Civil War Governor Thomas Overton Moore.
  • The youngest of Stafford's siblings, Thomas Overton Moore Stafford (1905-1973), was an uncle by marriage of the late U.S.
  • Representative Harold B.
  • McSween of Louisiana's 8th congressional district, since disbanded.Grove Stafford and his wife, the former Emily Gaiennie (1903-1974), had four children, Alexandria attorney Grove "Red" Stafford, Jr.; Emily Stafford Brame McNeely (1926-1997); Martha "Patti" Daniel, and George Mason Graham Stafford.
  • Stafford, Jr.
  • (1928-2017), a Republican, graduated from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans and was a partner in the Alexandria firm Stafford, Stewart & Potter, formerly Stafford & Pitts.
  • He served on the Louisiana Board of Ethics and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, of which he was the president in 1981.
  • Emily McNeely was first married to Frank Thebault Brame, Jr.
  • (1919-1992) of Alexandria, the nephew of Scott Miller Brame (1881-1947), for whom the Scott M.
  • Brame Middle School in Alexandria is named.
  • Emily's second husband was the Crowley physician, Thomas Ludlow McNeely, Jr., a native of Colfax in Grant Parish, a graduate of the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and a two-term member of the Crowley City Council, who died on his ninetieth birthday on October 26, 2016.
  • Stafford's namesake grandson, Grove Stafford Brame, the sixth of seven children of Frank and Emily Brame, was a Dr Pepper executive in Dallas and Houston, who died in July 2017 at the age of fifty-nine in Boerne, west of San Antonio, Texas.Stafford was succeeded in the state Senate in 1948 by C.
  • H.
  • "Sammy" Downs and the return of Earl Kemp Long to the governorship.
  • He subsequently served on the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors in the administration of Long's second successor, Robert F.
  • Kennon.
  • He was a defendant in the appeal of a suit brought forth from 1953 to 1955 against LSU by the African-American civil rights attorney A.
  • P.
  • Tureaud of New Orleans.Stafford died in Alexandria at the age of seventy-eight and is interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, alongside his wife.

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