District Attorney of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
In office 1924–1969
Personal details
Born
(1891-07-16)July 16, 1891 Dalcour, Louisiana, U.S.
Died
March 19, 1969(1969-03-19) (aged 77) Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Other political affiliations
States' Rights (1948) American Independent (1968)
Spouse
Agnes Octave Perez
Relations
Leander H. Perez, III (grandson who was a son-in-law of State Representative Edward S. Bopp)
Children
4
Profession
District judge, district attorney, and president of the Plaquemines Parish Commission Council
Leander Henry Perez Sr. (July 16, 1891 – March 19, 1969) was an American Democratic Party political boss of Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes in southeastern Louisiana during the middle third of the 20th century. Officially, he served as a district judge, later as district attorney, and as president of the Plaquemines Parish Commission Council. He was known for leading efforts to enforce and preserve segregation.
Leander Henry Perez Sr. (July 16, 1891 – March 19, 1969) was an American Democratic Party political boss of Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes in southeastern...
Parishes, Judge LeanderPerez (died March 1969). However, in the late 1990s, St. Bernard officials chose to distance themselves from LeanderPerez's segregationist...
presidential election. Some Southern diehards,[clarification needed] such as LeanderPerez of Louisiana, attempted to keep it in existence in their districts....
Edward Douglass White 1996 Louis Berry James Carville Mary Evelyn Parker LeanderPerez Gus Weill 1997 Oscar K. Allen Murphy J. Foster J. Bennett Johnston Melinda...
Grace, at the urging of long-time southeastern Louisiana political boss LeanderPerez, questioned Boggs's membership in the American Student Union in the...
rigged by Plaquemines Parish boss LeanderPerez. At a stormy session of the state Democratic committee, Long attacked Perez and Grace for attacking Boggs...
with automatic generators taking over if the machinery fails. Judge LeanderPerez enabled the tunnel's construction by passing a constitutional amendment...
OPSB and board member Emile Wagner. Gerald Rault, assisted by Judge LeanderPerez, was the legal counsel in the case against the integration of public...
County Sheriff Jim Clark; former Mississippi governor Ross Barnett; LeanderPerez, a fervent Louisiana segregationist and anti-Semite; Kent Courtney,...
then term-limited President Ernesto Pérez Balladares during an election where opposition figures suggested that Perez Balladares was hoping to convey the...
depends on that, whether or not it's able to ask [itself] that question." LeanderPerez as himself Dorothy Counts as herself Joan Crawford in Dance, Fools,...
Edward Douglass White 1996 Louis Berry James Carville Mary Evelyn Parker LeanderPerez Gus Weill 1997 Oscar K. Allen Murphy J. Foster J. Bennett Johnston Melinda...
Edward Douglass White 1996 Louis Berry James Carville Mary Evelyn Parker LeanderPerez Gus Weill 1997 Oscar K. Allen Murphy J. Foster J. Bennett Johnston Melinda...
on the committee agenda. Eastland's closest friend and confidant was LeanderPerez. Eastland died on February 19, 1986. While at a fundraiser on June 18...
States' Rights electors from Louisiana included hard-line segregationists LeanderPerez and Willie Rainach. Treen warned at a rally that "Reconstruction of...
Edward Douglass White 1996 Louis Berry James Carville Mary Evelyn Parker LeanderPerez Gus Weill 1997 Oscar K. Allen Murphy J. Foster J. Bennett Johnston Melinda...
Edward Douglass White 1996 Louis Berry James Carville Mary Evelyn Parker LeanderPerez Gus Weill 1997 Oscar K. Allen Murphy J. Foster J. Bennett Johnston Melinda...
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