Robert E. "Bob" Powell
| Robert Ellis "Bob" Powell, Sr. | |
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Mayor of Monroe, Ouachita Parish Louisiana, USA |
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In office April 1979 – July 1, 1996 |
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| Preceded by | William Derwood Cann, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Abe E. Pierce, III |
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| Born | January 14, 1923 |
| Died | July 26, 1997 (aged 74) |
| Resting place | Hasley Cemetery in West Monroe, Louisiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Nell C. Powell |
| Children |
Robert E. Powell, Jr. |
| Occupation | Broadcaster |
Robert E. Powell, Jr.
William Gregory Powell
Elizabeth "Betty" Y. Powell
Robert Ellis Powell, Sr., known as Robert E. "Bob" Powell (January 14, 1923 – July 26, 1997), was a Democrat who served for more than seventeen years as the mayor of Monroe in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana.
Powell and his wife, the former Nell Colson (July 30, 1925 – April 4, 2016), had two sons, Robert E. Powell, Jr. (born February 1947), and William Gregory Powell (born May 1949), and a daughter Elizabeth "Betty" Y. Powell (born May 1956), and three grandchildren (a fourth deceased).
A native of Union Parish, Mrs. Powell graduated in 1942 from Ouachita Parish High School and subsequently summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, then Northeast Louisiana University. She was an active member of First Presbyterian Church in Monroe, the Garden Club, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
A former broadcaster, Powell won a special election in April 1979 to succeed the interim mayor, William Derwood Cann, Jr., a businessman and former World War II lieutenant colonel, who had been appointed to the position following the resignation in October 1978 of five-term Mayor W. L. "Jack" Howard, a Democrat who co-founded Howard Brothers Discount Stores. Powell then won full terms in 1980, 1984, 1988, and finally in 1992. In 1996, he was unseated by his former political ally, Abe E. Pierce, III, the president of the Ouachita Parish Police Jury and the first African American to fill the mayoralty in Monroe.
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