His Biography of Senator Ransdell
In 1951, LaBorde wrote A National Southerner: Ransdell of Louisiana (Benziger Brothers), a look at the career of former Louisiana Democratic Senator Joseph E. Ransdell (1858–1954). An Alexandria native, Ransdell was a lawyer and district attorney in Lake Providence, the seat of East Carroll Parish, prior to his election to the U.S. Senate in 1912, the year of LaBorde's birth. Ransdell was defeated for renomination in 1930; Allen Ellender came along six years later.
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