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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 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 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><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>

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>

==Mayoral tenure==

==Mayoral tenure==

===Unionization dispute===

===Unionization dispute===

Just prior to his leaving office after twenty-eight years, the lame duck Mayor Baden, without notification of three incoming city council members, met with a representative of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees and committed to a [[collective bargaining]] agreement between the union and city employees which he wanted formulated before he left office. Never before had Baden encouraged union activity. This time he did so during business hours at City Hall. His actions led Mayor-elect Deslatte and three new city council members, Joe Bishop (later the president of the Rapides Parish Police Jury), Carol Jeukens Cunningham, and Clarence Fields, to retain Pineville attorney[Jimmy Faircloth, later known as the executive counsel to then [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]], to file in the Louisiana 9th Judicial District Court in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] a petition for a [temporary restraining order to stop Baden. During legal proceedings, the city was represented by Alexandria attorney Dee D. Drell, later and current United States District Court judge for the Western District of Louisiana. Baden's attorney was Christopher J. Roy, Sr., whose son, Jacques Roy, was elected in 2006 as the mayor of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. The court ordered that Baden and the three defeated city council members, Charles O'Banion, George E. Hearn, and Lemon Coleman, Jr.,<ref>[[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Lemon "Billy" Coleman, Jr. (1935-2015), an educator, was the first [[African-American]] to have served on the Pineville City Council since [[Reconstruction]].  Coleman studied at the historically black Grambling State University in Grambling in Lincoln Parish and Southern University in [[Baton Rouge]]. First elected in 1974, he unseated in a majority white district the incumbent Willie George Golemon (1899-1975), who died the following year.  Golemon's daughter, Faye Christine Thrasher (1922-1982), and her second husband, Donald L. Thrasher (1930-2009), were active in veterans activities in the [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] area.</ref> halt their efforts to unionize city employees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/74276370/pineville-mayor-elect-leo-deslatte-et-al-vs-mayor-fred-baden-et-al-1998|title=

Just prior to his leaving office after twenty-eight years, the lame duck Mayor Baden, without notification of three incoming city council members, met with a representative of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees and committed to a [[collective bargaining]] agreement between the union and city employees which he wanted formulated before he left office. Never before had Baden encouraged union activity. This time he did so during business hours at City Hall. His actions led Mayor-elect Deslatte and three new city council members, Joe Bishop (later the president of the Rapides Parish Police Jury), Carol Jeukens Cunningham, and Clarence Fields, to retain Pineville attorney Jimmy Faircloth, later known as the executive counsel to then [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]], to file in the Louisiana 9th Judicial District Court in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] a petition for a [temporary restraining order to stop Baden. During legal proceedings, the city was represented by Alexandria attorney Dee D. Drell, later and current United States District Court judge for the Western District of Louisiana. Baden's attorney was Christopher J. Roy, Sr., whose son, Jacques Roy, was elected in 2006 as the mayor of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. The court ordered that Baden and the three defeated city council members, Charles O'Banion, George E. Hearn, and Lemon Coleman, Jr.,<ref>[[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Lemon "Billy" Coleman, Jr. (1935-2015), an educator, was the first [[African-American]] to have served on the Pineville City Council since [[Reconstruction]].  Coleman studied at the historically black Grambling State University in Grambling in Lincoln Parish and Southern University in [[Baton Rouge]]. First elected in 1974, he unseated in a majority white district the incumbent Willie George Golemon (1899-1975), who died the following year.  Golemon's daughter, Faye Christine Thrasher (1922-1982), and her second husband, Donald L. Thrasher (1930-2009), were active in veterans activities in the [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] area.</ref> halt their efforts to unionize city employees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/74276370/pineville-mayor-elect-leo-deslatte-et-al-vs-mayor-fred-baden-et-al-1998|title=

Pineville Mayor-elect Leo Deslatte et al vs Mayor Fred Baden et al |date=1998|publisher=scribd.com|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref>

Pineville Mayor-elect Leo Deslatte et al vs Mayor Fred Baden et al |date=1998|publisher=scribd.com|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref>