Leo Deslatte
| Clifford Leo Deslatte, Sr. | |
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| Mayor of Pineville Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA | |
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In office July 1, 1998 – December 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Fred Baden |
| Succeeded by | Clarence R. Fields |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 1946 Place of birth missing |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Dianne Hyde Deslatte |
| Children |
Clifford "Cliff" Deslatte, Jr. Wesley Hyde Deslatte |
| Parents | Clifford Gabriel and Hesta Lee Reynolds Deslatte |
| Alma mater | College missing |
| Occupation | Businessman |
Clifford "Cliff" Deslatte, Jr.
Clifford Leo Deslatte, Sr., known as Leo Deslatte (born November 1946), is a Republican computer businessman who served for a year and a half, from July 1998 to December 1999 as the mayor of Pineville, Louisiana. His brief tenure was sandwiched between the long-term Democratic mayors, Fred Baden and Clarence R. Fields.
Deslatte is the older of two sons of Clifford Gabriel "Frenchy" Deslatte (1916-2006) and the former Hesta Lee Reynolds (1923-2007), known as "Missy" Deslatte, a native of Ruby in Rapides Parish. Missy Deslatte was a daughter of David and Ann Gray Reynolds, a member of the Pineville Park Baptist Church, and worked as a cottage supervisor at Pinecrest State School in Pineville. Clifford and Hesta Deslatte are interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Ball.
Deslatte's brother, James E. Deslatte (born January 1952) and his wife, Mary Ellen, reside in Ball. Leo Deslatte is married to the former Dianne Hyde (born February 1946). The couple has two sons from Pineville, Clifford "Cliff", II (born March 1971), divorced from the former Claire Russell, formerly of Winnfield, Louisiana, and Wesley Hyde "Wes" Deslatte (born October 1974).
Little is available on Deslatte himself prior to his election as mayor in the spring of 1998; he won out-of-town recognition at the age of sixteen playing football for Pineville High School.
Just prior to his leaving office after twenty-eight years, the lame duck Mayor Baden, without notification of three incoming city council members, met with a representative of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees and committed to a collective bargaining agreement between the union and city employees which he wanted formulated before he left office. Never before had Baden encouraged union activity. This time he did so during business hours at City Hall. His actions led Mayor-elect Deslatte and three new city council members, Joe Bishop (later the president of the Rapides Parish Police Jury), Carol Jeukens Cunningham, and Clarence Fields, to retain Pineville attorney Jimmy Faircloth, later the executive counsel to Governor Bobby Jindal, to file in the Louisiana 9th Judicial District Court in Alexandria a petition for a temporary restraining order to stop Baden. During legal proceedings, the city was represented by Alexandria attorney Dee D. Drell, later and current judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Baden's attorney was Christopher J. Roy, Sr., whose son, Jacques Roy, was elected in 2006 as the mayor of Alexandria. The court ordered that Baden and three defeated city council members, Charles O'Banion, George E. Hearn, and Lemon Coleman, Jr., halt their efforts to unionize city employees.
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