Ed Ware
| Ed Ware | |
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| District Attorney for the Louisiana 9th Judicial District Court (Rapides Parish) | |
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In office January 1, 1967 – December 31, 1984 |
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| Succeeded by | Charles F. Wagner |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Edwin Oswald Ware III September 10, 1927 Alexandria, Rapides Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Died | July 10, 2016 (aged 88) Alexandria, Louisiana |
| Resting place | Alexandria Memorial Gardens |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara Fritchie Ware (m. 1953–2016) |
| Relations | Edwin O. Ware, Sr. (grandfather) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parents | Edwin Jr. and Mary Louella Pierce Ware |
| Residence | Alexandria Garden District |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | |
| Rank | Lieutenant commander |
Edwin Oswald "Ed" Ware, III (September 10, 1927 – July 10, 2016) was an American lawyer from Alexandria, Louisiana. From 1967 to 1984, he was the district attorney of the 9th Judicial District Court for his native Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana. He is best remembered for his trademark suspenders and his unsuccessful efforts to block under state law the sale of pornography.
Ware's grandfather, Edwin O. Ware, Sr., a clergyman originally from Kentucky, was a founder and first president of the Southern Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana, from which Ware obtained his undergraduate degree in 1948. Ware, however, was a PresbyterianSunday school teacher. Ware's father, Edwin, Jr., was born in Alexandria in 1897; his mother, the former Mary Louella Pierce (1902-1992), was from Calcasieu Parish. The couple married in 1922 and lived in Alexandria.
Ware was the third of five children. His only brother, William Eaton "Bill" Ware (1930-2013) of Haughton in Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana, served in the United States Air Force and was stationed in the Pacific Proving Grounds during the nuclear testing on Bikini Island. He later worked for General Motors in Shreveport. Ware's three sisters, all deceased, were Dorothy Ruth Brown (1924-1966), who died at the age of forty-two in Fort Worth, Texas; Jewel Ware Dean (1925-2011), an English teacher in Livingston Parish near Baton Rouge, and Mary Louella Ware Dvorak (1933-2009) of Blanchard in McClain County, Oklahoma.
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