Camille Gravel - Gravel's Legacy

Gravel's Legacy

Jim Brown said that Gravel's influence on the legal profession and the political landscape of the state was "overwhelming. He has been, for many years, hands down one of the best criminal lawyers in the country."

In 1995, Gravel was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.

Starting in 1976 and continuing through 1979, Camille Gravel, Jr., worked with Robert G. Vernon and Duane Yates to form the Louisiana Music Commission. This commission has served as the model for other states. It created the first "stand-alone" music commission in the nation.

In its April 29, 2007 edition, Gravel's hometown newspaper, Alexandria Daily Town Talk declared that Gravel, along with U.S. Representative Gillis William Long and the American Civil War General William T. Sherman, were the three most significant persons of history associated with Alexandria.

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