Bobby Freeman (politician)
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The Honorable Robert Louis "Bobby" Freeman, Sr. |
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| 47th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana | |
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In office March 10, 1980 – March 14, 1988 |
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| Governor |
David Treen Edwin Edwards |
| Preceded by | Jimmy Fitzmorris |
| Succeeded by | Paul Hardy |
| Louisiana Representative for Iberville and West Baton Rouge | |
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In office 1968–1980 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Marx Hoffman Herman J. Lowe |
| Succeeded by |
Harry J. Kember, Jr. Clyde Kimball |
| Plaquemine City Judge | |
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In office 1990–1996 |
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| Preceded by | William C. Dupont |
| Succeeded by | William C. Dupont |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 27, 1934 Plaquemine, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | May 16, 2016 (aged 82) Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Cause of death | Aneurysm |
| Resting place | Saint John The Evangelist Catholic Cemetery Plaquemine, Louisiana |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Marianne Drago Freeman (m. 1958–2016) |
| Children |
Lisa Freeman Guidry |
| Parents |
Albert Freeman |
| Residence |
Plaquemine Iberville Parish |
| Alma mater |
Louisiana State University Loyola University New Orleans College of Law |
| Profession | Attorney, judge |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Years of service | 1956-1959 |
Lisa Freeman Guidry
Albert Freeman
Robert Louis "Bobby" Freeman, Sr. (April 27, 1934 – May 16, 2016) was an American attorney in Plaquemine, Louisiana who was the Democratic lieutenant governor of his state from 1980 to 1988.
Freeman was subsequently the Plaquemine city judge from 1990 to 1996. From 1968 to 1980, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
He graduated from Plaquemine Senior High School in 1952, where he engaged in boxing, with among others his classmate and friend Jessel Ourso, later the sheriff of Iberville Parish. Freeman earned his bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He was a member of the LSU boxing team and was inducted into the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1977. He was the only college boxer to hold three consecutive Sugar Bowl boxing championship titles.
Freeman earned his L.L.B. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in New Orleans in 1965.
He served in the United States Army from 1956 to 1959 and worked for a chemical company from 1960 to 1961.
Early in his career, Freeman practiced law in the Plaquemine firm of Freeman and Pendley. He is a member of the Louisiana and American bar associations. He was chairman of the Plaquemine Planning and Zoning Commission from 1966-1968 and was also a member of the board of directors of the Louisiana Environmental Health Association.
Freeman was a strong supporter of organized labor, which has a marked presence in his former state House district, an area which had not elected a Republican to the legislature since Reconstruction and remains one of the most overwhelmingly Democratic parts of Louisiana. Freeman supported Republican Governor Dave Treen's Democratic opponent, Louis J. Lambert, Jr., then a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission from Ascension Parish, near Baton Rouge, in the 1979 gubernatorial general election. In his own race, Freeman ran far ahead of a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, Russel C. "Russ" Kiger, II, then a field engineer for National Cash Register in Baton Rouge who endorsed the Treen platform. Kiger finished with fewer than 47,000 votes in the primary, less than half the number of registered Republican voters in the state at the time.
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