Frank Burton Ellis
| Frank Ellis | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana | |
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In office April 12, 1962 – November 16, 1965 |
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| Appointed by | John F. Kennedy |
| Preceded by | J. Skelly Wright |
| Succeeded by | Frederick Jacob Reagan Heebe |
| Director of the Office of Emergency Planning | |
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In office September 22, 1961 – April 12, 1962 |
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| President | John F. Kennedy |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization | |
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In office March 9, 1961 – September 22, 1961 |
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| President | John F. Kennedy |
| Preceded by | Lewis Berry (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| President pro tempore of the Louisiana Senate | |
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In office 1940–1944 |
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| Preceded by | Coleman Lindsey |
| Succeeded by | Grove Stafford |
| Member of the Louisiana Senate from the St. Tammany Parish district |
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In office 1940–1944 |
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| Preceded by | Esco Knight |
| Succeeded by | H. H. Richardson |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Frank Burton Ellis February 10, 1907 Covington, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | November 5, 1969 (aged 62) Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Alice Grima (Divorced) Marjorie Wheatley (1965–1969) |
| Children | 3 |
| Education |
Gulf Coast Military Academy (BS) Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (LLB) |
Frank Burton Ellis (February 10, 1907 – November 5, 1969) was a New Orleans, Louisiana, attorney and Democratic politician who served in the Louisiana State Senate, as director of the Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization in the administration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and as a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in the latter part of his career. As civil defense director, he pushed strongly for the establishment of fallout shelters, then deemed essential to civilian protection during the Cold War. On the bench, he slowed down the pace of desegregation in Orleans Parish schools and sided with Tulane University administrators in a key case against that institution.
Ellis was born in Covington, the seat of St. Tammany Parish in suburban New Orleans, to Harvey E. Ellis (born 1875), a lawyer and the founder of the St. Tammany Banking Company, and the former Margaret Burton Whiteside (born 1884), a niece of U.S. Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia who was also secretary of the interior under U.S. President Grover Cleveland. Burton was descended on both sides from a line of slaveholders and Confederate military men and civic and government leaders. He was well-connected politically, among other relations being a second cousin of Robert Stephen Ellis, Jr. (born 1899), a Louisiana state circuit court judge who was a son-in-law of U.S. Representative Bolivar E. Kemp and a brother-in-law of Louisiana Attorney General Bolivar Edwards Kemp, Jr. Ellis attended Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, Mississippi. In 1929, Ellis received his L.L.B. degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge.
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