Rob Couhig
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Rob Couhig (2009)
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| Born |
Robert Emmet Couhig, Jr. April 20, 1949 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Alma mater |
(1) St. Francisville High School |
| Occupation | Attorney, businessman, politician |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) |
(1) Divorced from Susan Mullins Couhig |
| Children |
Robert E. Couhig, III |
| Relatives |
Sam A. LeBlanc, III (half-brother) |
(1) St. Francisville High School
(2) Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
(1) Divorced from Susan Mullins Couhig
Robert E. Couhig, III
Sam A. LeBlanc, III (half-brother)
Kevin H. Couhig (brother)
Robert Emmet Couhig, Jr., known as Rob Couhig (born April 20, 1949), is an attorney, businessman, entrepreneur, Republican political activist, and a former radio talk show host from New Orleans, Louisiana. His last political foray was into the 2010 New Orleans mayoral election.
A former partner of the Adams and Reese law firm, Couhig now leads his own firm, Couhig Partners. Couhig has twice been a candidate for the United States House of Representatives. A persistent Republican in a heavily Democratic city, he was defeated in a race for mayor of New Orleans in the spring of 2006 by the incumbent, Ray Nagin. He is also known for bringing the minor league baseball team the New Orleans Zephyrs to the city.
Couhig was born in Baptist Hospital in New Orleans to Robert Emmet "Bob" Couhig, Sr. (1916-2014), and the former Marcelle "Nootsie" Reese (1916-1985). The senior Couhig came to New Orleans from Massachusetts after World War II. He was hired by the Orkin Company to manage two area pest-control offices and became the top executive of a four-state territory. In that position, he moved the Orkin central office from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. In the mid-1960s, Rollins Environmental Services, Inc., bought Orkin and transferred Couhig to its office in Atlanta, Georgia. After a year-long relocation to Georgia, Couhig left the company and moved his family to St. Francisville in West Feliciana Parish. Bob and Marcelle Couhig were pioneers in the promotion of tourism in both West Feliciana and East Feliciana parishes. In 1962, they opened Fairview Plantation, a restaurant and gift shop in an historic home in West Feliciana Parish. After Fairview burned, they established in 1966 Jackson, Louisiana, Asphodel Village as one of the first bed and breakfasts in the state. The Couhigs lived in one part of Asphodel Plantation and until the later 1980s operated a restaurant and gift shop in the other part of the house. Marcelle in 1980 published the popular Asphodel Plantation Cookbook with regional specialties. In 1967, the senior Couhig formed his own Couhig Pestaway Company, based in Baton Rouge, which he operated until he was in his middle eighties.
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