Arnold Jack Rosenthal
| Arnold Jack Rosenthal | |
|---|---|
| Finance and Utilities Commissioner of Alexandria, Louisiana | |
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In office June 1973 – June 1977 |
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| Preceded by | Carroll E. Lanier |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 9, 1923 Alexandria, Rapides Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Died | December 22, 2010 (aged 87) Alexandria, Louisiana |
| Resting place | Jewish Cemetery in Pineville, Louisiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Divorced |
| Parents | Bernard F. and May Violet Kaffie Rosenthal |
| Alma mater |
Bolton High School |
| Occupation | Attorney; Businessman |
| Religion | Jewish |
Bolton High School
Tulane University
Arnold Jack Rosenthal (May 9, 1923 – December 22, 2010) was an attorney and businessman from Alexandria, Louisiana, who from 1973 to 1977 was his city's last elected municipal commissioner of finance and utilities.
Rosenthal (addressed by both names as "Arnold Jack") was the older of two sons of a Jewish couple, Bernard F. Rosenthal, Sr. (1889–1970), and the former May Violet Kaffie (1897–1932), a native of , Louisiana. Rosenthal's maternal forebears in 1863 built the oldest surviving general store in Louisiana, Kaffie-Frederick, Inc., General Mercantile, which specializes in hardware and is located in the historic section of downtown Natchitoches. Many of those ancestors are interred at the Jewish Cemetery in Natchitoches. Rosenthal lost his mother, who died at the age of thirty-four, when he was nine years old; his younger brother, Bernard F. "Bernie" Rosenthal, Jr. (1929–2004), later an employee of the Louisiana Department of Revenue, was only three at the time of their mother's death.
Reared thereafter by a single father, Rosenthal attended public schools and graduated in 1940 from Bolton High School in Alexandria, located near his longstanding family home on Albert Street in the city's Garden District. He then attended Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville before transferring to the nonsectarian Tulane University in New Orleans. In 1946, he received his law degree from Tulane University Law School. Rosenthal was the former owner of the defunct Joy Theater in Alexandria. From his youth to his later years of semi-retirement, Rosenthal was an avid tennis player. He also owned race horses and, with his brother, was particularly active in the racing industry.
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