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| Name | Robert F. Kennon |
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Minden, Louisiana , United States |
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August 12, 1902
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| Died | January 11, 1988
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Robert Floyd "Bob" Kennon (August 12, 1902 - January 11, 1988) was a "good-government" reform Democratic governor of the state of Louisiana, who served from 1952-1956. He failed to win a second nonconsecutive term in the 1963 Democratic primary.
After the Brown v. Board of Education decision of May 17, 1954, Governor Kennon ordered the enforcement of laws relating to segregation. He vowed that the state would provide a public school system "which will include segregation in fact." Desegregation, however, began under Kennon's successors, Earl Kemp Long and James Houston "Jimmie" Davis, but it was a long process, not completed in Louisiana until August 1970.
The conservative Kennon grew disillusioned with his national party and endorsed Republican presidential nominees Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry M. Goldwater, and Gerald R. Ford.
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