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'''Clifford Leo Deslatte, Sr.''', known as '''Leo Deslatte''' (born November 5, 1946),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=3625160|title=Clifford Deslatte, November 1946|publisher=[[Louisiana Secretary of State]]|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/Fname-Lname/leo_deslatte|title=Clifford Deslatte|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 18, 2017}}</ref> is a [[Republican Party |Republican]] [[computer]] [[business]]man who served for a year and a half, from July 1998 to December 1999 as the [[mayor]] of [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]]. His brief tenure was sandwiched between the long-term [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] mayors,  Fred Baden and Clarence R. Fields.

'''Clifford Leo Deslatte, Sr.''', known as '''Leo Deslatte''' (born November 5, 1946),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=3625160|title=Clifford Deslatte, November 1946|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/Fname-Lname/leo_deslatte|title=Clifford Deslatte|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 18, 2017}}</ref> is a [[Republican Party |Republican]] [[computer]] [[business]]man who served for a year and a half, from July 1998 to December 1999 as the [[mayor]] of [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]]. His brief tenure was sandwiched between the long-term [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] mayors,  Fred Baden and Clarence R. Fields.

==Background==

==Background==

Deslatte is the older of two sons of Clifford Gabriel "Frenchy" Deslatte (1916-2006) and the former Hesta Lee Reynolds (1923-2007), known as "Missy" Deslatte, a native of Ruby in Rapides Parish. Missy Deslatte was a daughter of David and Ann Gray Reynolds, a member of the Pineville Park [[Southern Baptist|Baptist Church]], and worked as a cottage supervisor at Pinecrest State School in Pineville. Clifford and Hesta Deslatte are interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Ball, north of Pineville.<ref name=findagrave/>

Deslatte is the older of two sons of Clifford Gabriel "Frenchy" Deslatte (1916-2006) and the former Hesta Lee Reynolds (1923-2007), known as "Missy" Deslatte, a native of Ruby in Rapides Parish. Missy Deslatte was a daughter of David and Ann Gray Reynolds, a member of the Pineville Park [[Southern Baptist|Baptist Church]], and worked as a cottage supervisor at Pinecrest State School in Pineville. Clifford and Hesta Deslatte are interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Ball, north of Pineville.<ref name=findagrave/>

Leo Deslatte is married to the former Dianne Hyde (born February 1946).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=3625165|title=Dianne Deslatte, February 1946|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref> The couple has two sons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archive.thetowntalk.com/article/20100605/NEWS01/6050309/Rapides-Parish-Civil-Lawsuits-June-2-3-2010|title=Rapides Parish Civil Lawsuits|date=June 5, 2010|publisher=''[[The Town Talk (Alexandria)|The Alexandria Town Talk]]''|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56618695|title=Hesta Lee Reynolds "Missy" Deslatte|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref>

Leo Deslatte is married to the former Dianne Hyde (born February 1946).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=3625165|title=Dianne Deslatte, February 1946|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref> The couple has two sons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archive.thetowntalk.com/article/20100605/NEWS01/6050309/Rapides-Parish-Civil-Lawsuits-June-2-3-2010|title=Rapides Parish Civil Lawsuits|date=June 5, 2010|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk]'|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56618695|title=Hesta Lee Reynolds "Missy" Deslatte|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref>

Prior to his election as mayor in the spring of 1998; Deslatte won out-of-town recognition at the age of sixteen playing football for Pineville High School.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/499584/|title=Leesville puts two on squad|date=December 13, 1962|page=25|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref>

Prior to his election as mayor in the spring of 1998; Deslatte won out-of-town recognition at the age of sixteen playing football for Pineville High School.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/499584/|title=Leesville puts two on squad|date=December 13, 1962|page=25|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref>

===Resignation===

===Resignation===

Unable to work with the city council, Deslatte resigned as mayor after less than two years into his term. He said that the political pressure was too much to make the job worth keeping. The council then appointed [[African-American]] council member Clarence Fields as interim mayor.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk'', December 10, 1999.</ref> The first black mayor of Pineville, a once segregated city, Fields was then elected to a partial term in 2000, when he defeated former city council member George Earl Hearn (1926-2010), a [[psychology]] [[professor]] at Louisiana College in Pineville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10072000/10072000_40.html|title=Election Results|date=October 7, 2000|publisher=[[Louisiana Secretary of State]]|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> Baden first announced that he would oppose Fields for the partial term in 2000 but subsequently withdrew from consideration, Fields thereafter won a full term in 2002, and he was reelected without opposition in 2006, 2010, and 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.thetowntalk.com/article/20140215/NEWS01/302150025/Pineville-Mayor-Fields-once-again-re-elected-without-opposition|title=Pineville Mayor Fields once again re-elected without opposition|author=Jeff Matthews|date=February 15, 2015|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> Deslatte had the shortest tenure as mayor since Mike Aaron from 1912 to 1913.<ref>Karen Dauzat, List of Pineville Mayors since 1867, Pineville City Hall</ref>

Unable to work with the city council, Deslatte resigned as mayor after less than two years into his term. He said that the political pressure was too much to make the job worth keeping. The council then appointed [[African-American]] council member Clarence Fields as interim mayor.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk'', December 10, 1999.</ref> The first black mayor of Pineville, a once segregated city, Fields was then elected to a partial term in 2000, when he defeated former city council member George Earl Hearn (1926-2010), a [[psychology]] [[professor]] at Louisiana College in Pineville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10072000/10072000_40.html|title=Election Results|date=October 7, 2000|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> Baden first announced that he would oppose Fields for the partial term in 2000 but subsequently withdrew from consideration, Fields thereafter won a full term in 2002, and he was reelected without opposition in 2006, 2010, and 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.thetowntalk.com/article/20140215/NEWS01/302150025/Pineville-Mayor-Fields-once-again-re-elected-without-opposition|title=Pineville Mayor Fields once again re-elected without opposition|author=Jeff Matthews|date=February 15, 2015|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> Deslatte had the shortest tenure as mayor since Mike Aaron from 1912 to 1913.<ref>Karen Dauzat, List of Pineville Mayors since 1867, Pineville City Hall</ref>

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