Education and Family
Couhig was born in Baptist Hospital in New Orleans to Robert Emmet Couhig, Sr., and the former Marcelle Reese. Couhig, Sr., came to New Orleans from Massachusetts after World War II. He was hired by the Orkin Company to manage two area pest-control offices. He eventually became the top executive of a four-state territory. In the mid-1960s, Rollins Environmental Services, Inc., bought Orkin and transferred Couhig to its office in Atlanta, Georgia.
After a year-long relocation to Georgia, Couhig, Sr., left the company and moved his family to their previously-acquired Asphodel Plantation in West Feliciana Parish. The Couhigs lived in one part of the plantation and operated a restaurant and gift shop until the later 1980s in the other part of the house. The senior Couhig thereafter formed his own pest-control company in St. Francisville.
Rob Couhig spent a few years at the Catholic Jesuit High School while the family still lived in New Orleans. However, after moving to West Feliciana Parish, he graduated from St. Francisville High School in 1967. He won a scholarship to study international economics at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. He completed his Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown and then obtained his Juris Doctor from the Tulane University Law School in New Orleans.
Couhig married the former Susan Mullins of New York City. The couple has two sons, Robert E. Couhig, III, and Benjamin Couhig. Over time, Couhig said that the pressures of politics, business, and travel adversely affected his family life. He and Susan first separated and then divorced. After being single again for some fifteen years, Couhig married Michelle "Missy" Aleman in 2003.
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