Lloyd E. Lenard
| Lloyd Edgar Lenard | |
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| Caddo Parish Commissioner | |
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In office December 10, 1984 – January 11, 1996 |
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| Preceded by | New position |
| Succeeded by | John P. Escude |
| President, Caddo Parish Commission | |
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In office 1989–1991 |
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| Preceded by | Tommy Gene Armstrong |
| Succeeded by | Donald Aytch, Sr. |
| Personal details | |
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July 29, 1922 West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States |
| Died | June 11, 2008 (aged 85) Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Betty-Jo Sawyer "Skye" Lenard (1947-his death) |
| Children |
Carla Dawn Lenard Frye of Longview, Texas |
| Occupation | Businessman; Author |
| Religion | Baptist |
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(1) Lenard was in 1984 a rare Republican member of the revised Caddo Parish Police Jury, renamed the Caddo Parish Commission. (2) Lenard was particularly active in various Louisiana Republican campaigns going back to the groundbreaking 1963-1964 gubernatorial race of Charlton Lyons. (3) Lenard's autobiography Papa Left Us But Mama Pulled Us Through recounts how Lenard's womanizing father deserted the family and left Lenard's mother to rear seven children alone during the Great Depression. (4) Lenard's last book was coincidentally prophetically titled The Last Goodbye", based on his wartime experience in France. |
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Carla Dawn Lenard Frye of Longview, Texas
Brian Drury Lenard of Hammond, Louisiana
Lloyd "Chip" Lenard of Shreveport
(1) Lenard was in 1984 a rare Republican member of the revised Caddo Parish Police Jury, renamed the Caddo Parish Commission.
(2) Lenard was particularly active in various Louisiana Republican campaigns going back to the groundbreaking 1963-1964 gubernatorial race of Charlton Lyons.
(3) Lenard's autobiography Papa Left Us But Mama Pulled Us Through recounts how Lenard's womanizing father deserted the family and left Lenard's mother to rear seven children alone during the Great Depression.
Lloyd Edgar Lenard (July 29, 1922 – June 11, 2008) was an American businessman from Shreveport, and a former Caddo Parish commissioner, author, United States Navy officer, civic leader, and a pioneer in the establishment of the two-party system in his native Louisiana.
Lenard was born to James Lenard (1890–1966) and Doshie Lenard (1888–1971) in West Monroe in Ouachita Parish. The second youngest of seven children, he outlived all of his siblings. James Lenard deserted the family during the Great Depression. Lloyd Lenard’s difficult upbringing is highlighted in his 2005 book Papa Left Us But Mama Pulled Us Through. Of his mother, Lenard said: "This tiny woman had only Christian love and pioneer courage with which to hold her family together after her handsome, womanizing husband left her on a tenant farm with seven children and no resources." Lenard further recalled how his mother taught him and his brothers and sisters to "take care of ourselves and stand on our own two feet. [We] did just that, and in her declining years, the children took care of her and, strangely enough, of their handsome father who had no others to whom to turn as he became ill and started his long slide into death."
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