Camille Francis Gravel, Jr. (August 10, 1915 - December 23, 2005), was a Democrat lawyer and politician from Alexandria, Louisiana.
Pebbles spend a lot of time and money to support the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII honored him with the "Order of St. Gregory" for his ministry to the church.
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Education
Pebbles graduated in 1935 from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. From 1937 to 1939, he studied at law school at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., but he once explained that he could not follow the books. At a time when a law degree is not required to be a lawyer, Gravel "reads for the law" and passes a bar exam in 1940.
Pebbles introduced Louis Berry, the first African-American attorney to be accepted at the Alexandria Bar Association. Berry later said that no other white lawyer in Alexandria agreed to introduce him.
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Democratic Convention 1948
Gravel is an early civil rights activist mocked by the segregationist Louisiana Democrats in the 1950s as an "adherent of integration". He drew national attention when he led a loyal Louisiana Democrat delegate to the 1948 national convention in Philadelphia, when a delegation from Mississippi and half of Alabama's contingent walked out in protest against a civil rights plot on a candidate-backed party platform, US President Harry S. Truman.
Surprisingly, the Pebble in the fall of 1948 was a voter for the Eighth Congress District committed to then Governor Strom Thurmond, the official Democratic presidential nominee in Louisiana, running regionally on the State Rights Party's ticket against Truman and Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Other Thurmond voters are Leander Perez, an old intraparty rival of Plaquemines Parish.
In 1952, Gravel again became a Democratic Party voter committed to Governor Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois. The Stevenson-John Sparkman slate won in Louisiana that year.
In the late 1950s, when the cry of the state's political war was segregation, Gravel was one of the leading white political figures who did not join the segregation forces. "Pure as a moral proposition, I think segregation is wrong," he said in 1959.
Advisors of three governors
Gravel worked in a democratic national organization on behalf of Stevenson in 1952 and 1956. He was a confidant and advisor to Governor Earl Kemp Long, John McKeithen, and Edwin Washington Edwards.
In 1955, Earl Long had chosen Gravel to run for state attorney in 1956, but the work was paid little, and Gravel, which raised large families, rejected the offer. That position is even headed to the Democratic Party Jack P.F. Gremillion of Baton Rouge, who served from 1956 to 1972.
John McKeithen named Gremillion to investigate the influence of the Mafia on state governments, as reported in Life Magazine, but Gremillion does not reveal corroborative evidence of criminal activity. McKeithen also tapped Camille Gravel to investigate the question. Pebbles suddenly left the committee in disgust when stopped from further work after the main target became C. H. "Sammy" Downs, another Alexandria lawyer, a former state senator from Parish Rapides, and a key player in McKeithen's government. The gravel investigation was continued by East Attorney Baton Rouge Prosecutor Sargent Pitcher, and he also found no evidence of organized crime that had infiltrated the state government, but two questionable phone calls were acknowledged by McKeithen's previous advisor, Aubrey W. Young.
In the first two terms Edwin Edwards as governor most of the proposed law was compiled by Gravel. Gravel returned as Edwards's adviser for his third term beginning in 1984, but when Edwards was charged for the first time on federal blackmail charges in 1985, Gravel left the governor's staff to work as his defense adviser. Gravel also served on Edwards' defense team when he was convicted of extortion in 2000.
In 1979, Gravel succeeded in securing the release of former Congressman Otto E. Passman of Monroe from allegations of fraud, conspiracy, accepting illegal gratification, and tax evasion related to allegations that he had received $ 213,000 in illegal prizes from South Korean lobbyists. Tongsun Park in a scandal called Koreagate.
Friendship with the Kennedy family
Former state senator Louisiana, governor candidate, secretary of state, and insurance commissioner James H. "Jim" Brown reminded how Gravel befriended Kennedy:
Louisiana Constitutional Convention, 1973There is a remarkable story about how Camille's relationship with Kennedy angered Governor Earl Long. The governor led a delegation that included Camille to the 1956 Democratic National Convention held in Chicago. Kennedy is a vice presidential candidate because the position has been opened by presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. Earl Long supports Senator Estes Kefauver from Tennessee. The governor decided to leave the convention early, and give instructions to Camille [Gravel] and Judge Edmund Reggie of Crowley and future father-in-law of US Senator Edward M. Kennedy, to support Kefauver [who won a nomination for vice president].
The Massachusetts delegation sat side by side with the Louisiana delegation, and Camille started a friendship with Kennedy. Despite instructions from Earl Long, Camille supported Kennedy for the vice president. Needless to say, the governor was angry. So Camille spoils her relationship with the governor but creates an eternal alliance with the man who will become president.
Jim Brown also notes the important role played by Gravel in the 1973 Louisiana Constitutional Convention.
Camille's effectiveness has never been better exhibited than during his attempts to rewrite the obsolete constitution of Louisiana. Camille worked on every major part of the proposed document, refining the middle ground and working on a compromise when the delegates disagreed. I know there is no greater influence on the basic laws of our country than [done by] Camille.
Death and family
Parent pebbles are Camille Francis Gravel, Sr., and former Aline Delvaille. Two days before Christmas in 2005, Gravel died at Naomi Heights Nursing Home in Alexandria, where he has been living for several months. She had had a heart valve replacement surgery eleven months earlier at St. John's Hospital. Frances Cabrini in Alexandria. Her operation made her comatose. Soon his kidneys begin to malfunction, and doctors perform a second operation to determine the reason for kidney failure. In this operation, the doctor issued a blood clot. and decided that he also suffered a stroke.
Mass gravel burial conducted on December 27, 2005, at St. Francis Xavier in downtown Alexandria.
On November 26, 1939, Gravel married Katherine David, who died in 1979. The couple had eleven children, eight of whom lived in January 2012: Grady David Gravel of Lafayette, Mark Alan Gravel of Alexandria, and Charles Gregory Gravel and his wife, Elycia, from Alexandria; Ann G. Vanderslice and her husband, Stephen J. Vanderslice of Alexandria; Eileen G. Cappel and her husband, Richard B, Cappel, of Lake Charles; Martha G. Antoon and her husband, attorney Thomas A. Antoon of Alexandria; Virginia G. Carbo of Alexandria, and Margaret Lynn Gravel of Alexandria. The three children who have died are Richard Alvin Gravel, Camille F. Gravel, III, and Eunice Holloman Gravel.
Charles "Greg" Gravel (born November 1955) is a Democrat candidate who failed in a major election held on November 4, 2014 for Division G seat on the 9th District Court Courts held by Harry Randow. He and Randow, each of which draw 23.2 percent of the votes, lost to Republican candidate Greg Beard, who led the field with 18,405 ballots (53.6 percent).
Gravel's second wife, whom he married in 1980, is a former Evelyn Gianfala (1922-2012), who is from Berwick in St. Louis. Mary Parish, who is president of Gianfala & amp; Son Oil Field Construction Company. He is also a former chairman of the Louisiana State Tax Adviser and once a legislative assistant to State Senator William Cleveland and Jamar Adcock of Monroe. Evelyn Pebbles is a supporter of live theater, having served on the Little Theater of Alexandria and Crowley and the Swine Palace Theater in Baton Rouge.
The grandson of Richard A. Carbo, currently serving as Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor John Bel Edwards. He worked hard for Governor Kathleen Blanco, Senator Mary Landrieu, and Congressman John Barrow of Georgia.
Gravel heritage
Jim Brown said that Gravel's influence on the legal profession and political landscape of the country is "remarkable.He has, for many years, handed over one of the best criminal lawyers in the country."
Beginning in 1976 and continuing through 1979, Gravel worked with Robert G. Vernon and Duane Yates to form the Louisiana Music Commission. This commission has functioned as a model for other countries. It created the first "stand alone" music commission in the country.
In 1995, Gravel was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and the Hall of Fame in Winnfield.
In the April 29, 2007, Gravel hometown, Alexandria Daily Town Talk stated that Gravel, along with US Representative William Gillis Long and American Civil War General William T. Sherman, are the three most important. important people from history associated with Alexandria.
References
- William J. "Bill" Dodd, Peapatch Politics , Baton Rouge: Claitor's Publishing, 1991
- http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050211/NEWS01/502110330/1002/NEWS Shreveport Times: Camille Gravel, Jr., at hospital in critical condition]
- Daily Advertiser : Camille Gravel, adviser to Louisiana's governor, died at the age of 90
- Who's Who in America , 1975 edition
- Alexandria City Data
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