Robert F. Kennon
Robert Floyd Kennon, Sr., known as Bob Kennon (August 21, 1902 - January 11, 1988), was the 48th Governor of Louisiana, serving from 1952 to 1956. He failed to win a second non-consecutive term in the 1963 Democratic primary election.
After the Brown v. Board of Education decision of May 17, 1954, Kennon ordered the continued enforcement of laws relating to segregation. He vowed that his state would provide a public school system "which will include segregation in fact." Desegregation, however, began under Kennon's successors, Earl Kemp Long and James Houston "Jimmie" Davis, but it was a long process, not completed in all Louisiana parishes until August 1970.
The conservative Kennon grew disillusioned with his national party and endorsed Republican presidential nominees Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry M. Goldwater, Gerald R. Ford, Jr., and Ronald W. Reagan.
Read more about Robert F. Kennon: Early Life and Education, Municipal Politics, District Attorney and Then Judge, Gubernatorial Race, 1948, A Quick U.S. Senate Campaign, 1948, Gubernatorial Matters, A Third Gubernatorial Campaign, 1963, Kennon's Death, Bill Dodd's Eulogy of Kennon, Extended Family
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