Melvin Rambin
| Melvin Leo Rambin | |
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Mayor of Monroe, Ouachita Parish Louisiana, USA |
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In office July 3, 2000 – June 19, 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Abe E. Pierce, III |
| Succeeded by | Jamie Mayo |
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| Born | October 7, 1941 |
| Died | June 19, 2001 (aged 59) Monroe, Louisiana |
| Cause of death | Liver cancer |
| Resting place | Roselawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Ann Wilkinson Rambin |
| Children | Ashley A. Rambin Gordon Ryan C. Rambin Sharon L. Rambin Beary |
| Alma mater | Neville High School University of Louisiana at Monroe Louisiana State University |
| Occupation | Banker |
Melvin Leo Rambin (October 7, 1941 – June 19, 2001) was a banker in Monroe, the seat of Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, who was thus far the only Republican in his city to have held the office of mayor since the 19th century era of Reconstruction. Rambin was elected in March 2000 but died in office of liver cancer after having served for only eleven-and-a-half months.
Rambin was the son of the former Marjorie Pennington (1914-2001), a Baptist and a schoolteacher, and William Robert Rambin, Sr. (1912-1986), a Roman Catholic. The senior Rambins were natives and at time residents of Goldonna in , where they are interred at Goldonna Cemetery. In her later years Mrs. Rambin was living in Monroe, where she died five months after son Melvin's passing, but she had been residing in Goldonna at the time of her husband's death in 1986. Rambin has a surviving older brother, William R. Rambin, Jr. (born. c. 1939), of Monroe.
It is unclear when the Rambins moved from Natchitoches Parish to Monroe, but Rambin graduated in 1959 from Neville High School in Monroe. In 1963, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, when the institution was known as Northeast Louisiana State College. In 1965, he obtained his Master of Business Administration from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Over the course of his career, Rambin was an officer of several financial institutions, including the Louisiana National Bank in Baton Rouge, Premier Bank, and Bank One in Northeast Louisiana.
In 1999, Rambin was appointed by Republican Governor Murphy J. Foster, Jr., as a regent of the Louisiana Board of Regents of Higher Education.
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