Francis Grevemberg
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| Louisiana State Police superintendent | |
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In office May 13, 1952 – March 1955 |
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Francis Carroll Grevemberg June 4, 1914 Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi, USA |
| Died | November 24, 2008 (aged 94) New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Cause of death | Respiratory disease |
| Resting place | Urn in St. Martinville, Louisiana |
| Political party | Republican, after 1959 |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothy Maguire Grevemberg (1917–2010) |
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Francis J. Grevemberg |
| Occupation | United States Army colonel; Businessman |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
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(1) Grevemberg's crusading work as superintendent of the Louisiana state police prompted his memoirs, a film about his career, and two unsuccessful attempts to be elected governor. (2) Grevemberg was a highly decorated United States Army officer during and after World War II. (3) Actor Keith Andes played Grevemberg in the 1958 crime film Damn Citizen. (4) Grevemberg was a pioneer in the establishment of the modern Republican Party in Louisiana. (5) Grevemberg's memoirs are titled My Wars: Nazis, Mobsters, Gambling & Corruption - Col. Francis C. Grevemberg Remembers, published by attorney W. Thomas Angers. |
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Francis J. Grevemberg
(1) Grevemberg's crusading work as superintendent of the Louisiana state police prompted his memoirs, a film about his career, and two unsuccessful attempts to be elected governor.
(2) Grevemberg was a highly decorated United States Army officer during and after World War II.
(3) Actor Keith Andes played Grevemberg in the 1958 crime film Damn Citizen.
(4) Grevemberg was a pioneer in the establishment of the modern Republican Party in Louisiana.
Francis Carroll Grevemberg (June 4, 1914 – November 24, 2008), was the superintendent of the Louisiana State Police from 1952 to 1955, best remembered for his fight against organized crime.
Grevemberg was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, to Francis Bartholomew "Frank" Grevemberg and the former Onita Coulon Jumonville deVilliers, members of two prominent families in South Louisiana. He twice ran for governor of Louisiana, as a Democrat in the 1955 party primary and as the Republican nominee in the general election held on April 19, 1960.
A decorated United States Army officer in World War II, Grevemberg served twenty-eight months in the European Theater of operations. He made five amphibious landings and participated in nine combat campaigns. He went overseas as a captain commanding an anti-aircraft artillery battery in the 1st Infantry Division. He received a combat promotion from General George S. Patton, Jr., to the rank of major in Tunisia, and five months later, at the age of twenty-nine, during the beachhead campaign in Sicily, he received a second combat promotion, to the rank of lieutenant colonel, from General Omar N. Bradley.
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