Early Years
Guste was born to a wealthy New Orleans couple, William J. Guste, Sr., and the former Marie Louise Alciatore. The senior Guste was an attorney and a high ranking member of the Catholic men's organization, the Knights of Columbus. Guste, Jr., graduated from law school at Loyola University in New Orleans. He served on the New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission, at the invitation of then Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison, Sr., from 1956 to 1957. Guste was a member and chairman of the Juvenile Court Advisory Committee of Orleans Parish in 1961-1962.
Guste is married to Dorothy S. Guste (born 1924). He is widely viewed as a quiet, unassuming, almost shy man with dark wavy hair, in sharp contrast to the flamboyant, in-your-face image of his predecessor Jack Gremillion. Voters rewarded Guste's competence and integrity and kept him in the attorney general's position for two decades. He is therefore the longest-serving attorney general in modern Louisiana history.
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