Cleveland Dear
| Cleveland Dear, Sr. | |
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| United States Representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district (since defunct) | |
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In office March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1937 |
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| Preceded by | John H. Overton |
| Succeeded by | A. Leonard Allen |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 22, 1888 Sugartown Beauregard Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Died | December 30, 1950 (aged 62) AlexandriaRapides Parish, Louisiana |
| Resting place | Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, Louisiana |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Marion Suzanne Anderson Dear |
| Relations | Dee D. Drell (great-nephew by marriage) |
| Children |
Marion Dear Weber |
| Parents | James Mackburn and Sarah Jane Harper Dear |
| Alma mater | Louisiana State University Law Center |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Religion | Baptist |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Battles/wars | World War I |
Marion Dear Weber
Cleveland Dear, Sr. (August 22, 1888 – December 30, 1950), was a two-term U.S. representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district, since disbanded, a district attorney, a state court judge, and a candidate in 1936 for governor of Louisiana. A Democrat from Alexandria, Louisiana, he was allied with the anti-Long political faction.
Dear was the youngest of eleven children born to Mississippi natives James Mackburn Dear (1846–1925) and the former Sarah Jane Harper (1849–1932) in Sugartown in Beauregard Parish in western Louisiana. After early education in country schools, Dear graduated from Louisiana State University and its Paul M. Hebert Law Center, both in Baton Rouge. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. In 1914, he received his law degree and was admitted that same year to the bar. At first, he was in partnership in Alexandria in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana, with Frank H. Peterman in the firm Peterman & Dear. When V. H. Peterman, the father of Frank Peterman joined the firm, it became Peterman, Dear & Peterman. The firm handled local interests of the Texas & Pacific Railway and the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company.
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