Fred Baden
| Frederick Herman "Fred" Baden, I |
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Mayor of Pineville Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA |
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In office July 1, 1970 – June 30, 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Floyd W. Smith, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Leo Deslatte |
| Pineville City Council member | |
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In office 1966–1970 |
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May 4, 1934 Pineville, Louisiana, United States |
| Died | December 17, 2009 (aged 75) Alexandria, Louisiana |
| Cause of death | Complications from a fall |
| Resting place | Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Pineville, Louisiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
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(1) Divorced from Patsy Nugent (later Mrs. Terrell D. Corley) |
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Three sons and four daughters from first marriage: |
| Occupation | Master Plumber |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
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(1) Baden kept Pineville free of alcoholic beverage sales during his 28-year tenure as mayor. Voters in 2013 legalized the sale of beer in restaurants. (2) Baden was known for his assistance to the needy, particularly disadvantaged senior citizens, for whom he often performed pro bono plumbing work while he was mayor. (3) Baden's tenure ended in election defeat at the hands of the Republican Leo Deslatte, who thereafter invited legislative auditor Dan Kyle to conduct an investigation of municipal books. |
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(1) Divorced from Patsy Nugent (later Mrs. Terrell D. Corley)
Three sons and four daughters from first marriage:
Mark Wendell Baden
Gary Wayne Baden
Tony Phillip Baden
Sarah Baden Edwards
Leah Baden
Andrea Baden Broussard (deceased)
Tracy Baden Goudeau
Two sons from second marriage:
Frederick H. Baden, II (1978-2014)
Joshua Adam Baden (born 1979)
22 grandchildren
(1) Baden kept Pineville free of alcoholic beverage sales during his 28-year tenure as mayor. Voters in 2013 legalized the sale of beer in restaurants.
(2) Baden was known for his assistance to the needy, particularly disadvantaged senior citizens, for whom he often performed pro bono plumbing work while he was mayor.
Frederick Herman Baden, Sr. (May 4, 1934 – December 17, 2009), known as Fred Baden, was a Democratic mayor of Pineville, a small city across the Red River from Alexandria in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Baden served in the executive position from 1970 until his defeat in 1998 by the Republican Leo Deslatte.
Baden, who was of German extraction, was the only son of four children born in Pineville to Herman P. Baden (1885–1959) and Maude H. Baden (1896–1973). Baden was reared in a house located on Lakeview Street in downtown Pineville. The late Alexandria Mayor John K. Snyder, whose tenure corresponded with that of Baden in Pineville, also grew up on Lakeview Street about a block from the Baden household. "He was the mayor of Alexandria, but he spent more time in Pineville," said Baden, who recalled that while Snyder maintained an apartment in Alexandria, he spent more time at his mother's Pineville residence.
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