Ben F. Holt
| Benjamin F. Holt | |
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| Louisiana State Representative for Rapides Parish |
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In office 1956–1960 |
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| Born |
November 1, 1925 Jena, La Salle Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Died | September 18, 1995 (aged 69) Pineville, Rapides Parish Louisiana |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park near Pineville, Louisiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Joyce Ivoyne Lemmons Holt (married 1946-1995, his death) |
| Relations | Judge Jack Holt (brother) |
| Children | Beverly Gayle Holt Henagan |
| Parents | Robert Frank and Eva Mae Russell Holt |
| Residence | Pineville, Louisiana |
At-large members:
Cecil R. Blair
Lloyd George Teekell
At-large members:
Charles K. McHenry
Robert J. Munson
Benjamin F. Holt, known as Ben F. Holt (November 1, 1925 – September 18, 1995), was a Conservative Democrat from Pineville, Louisiana, who served a single term in the Louisiana House of Representatives for Rapides Parish from 1956 to 1960, during the administration of Governor Earl Kemp Long.
In the legislature, Holt emerged as a frequent critic of the Long administration. He opposed Long's attempt in a special session to remove Theo Cangelosi of Baton Rouge from the chairmanship of the Louisiana State University board of trustees. Long quarreled with his former friend Cangelosi regarding Long's divorce from his wife, Blanche R. Long, and Long's brief confinement in 1959 to a mental institution. Holt claimed that Cangelosi's removal for personal reasons would hurt the national image of LSU and weaken the institution.
In 1960, after he had left the legislature, Holt was a member of the Louisiana State Democratic Central Committee and allied with the forces opposed to the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. Along with the controversial segregationist political boss, Judge Leander Perez of Plaquemines Parish in south Louisiana, Holt supported free or unpledged electors, rather than the national-oriented slate organized by Judge Edmund Reggie of Crowley, later the father-in-law of U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. That movement coalesced in the since defunct Louisiana States Rights' Party, which carried for that election the support of such public figures as the 1959 gubernatorial candidate William M. Rainach, former U.S. Representative Jared Y. Sanders, Jr., later Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives John Sidney Garrett, and future Republican Governor David C. Treen. Nevertheless, Kennedy was an easy winner in Louisiana over the Republican candidate, Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
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