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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=William Joseph "Bill" Dodd
| image=Bill Dodd.jpg
| image size =
| caption =
| office=[[Louisiana]] Superintendent of Education
| term_start=May 1964
| term_end=May 1972
| preceded=Shelby Marion Jackson
| succeeded=Louis Joseph Michot, Jr.
| office2=Member of the Louisiana State Board of Education
| term_start2=1960
| term_end2=1964
| preceded2=Merle Welsh
| succeeded2= V.J. Scogin
| office3=Louisiana State [[Auditor]] (later Comptroller; office is no longer elected.)
| term_start3=May 1956
| term_end3=May 1960
| preceded3=[[Allison Kolb]]
| succeeded3=Roy R. Theriot, Sr.
| office4=42nd Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
| term_start4=May 11, 1948
| term_end4=May 13, 1952
| governor4=[[Earl Long]]
| preceded4=J. Emile Verret
| succeeded4=Charles Emmett "Cap" Barham
| office5=Louisiana State Representative for Allen Parish
| term_start5=1940
| term_end5=May 11, 1948
| preceded5=David Cole
| succeeded5=M.V. Hargrove
| birth_date=November 25, 1909
| birth_place=Liberty, [[Texas]]
| death_date=November 16, 1991 (aged 81)
| death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana
| spouse=Verone Ford Dodd (married 1939-1991, his death)
| children=William Ford Dodd<br>
Leonard Bruce Dodd
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| occupation=[[Attorney]]; [[Politician]]<br>
[[United States Army]] in [[World War II]]
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
}}
'''William Joseph Dodd''', known as '''Bill Dodd''' (November 25, 1909 – November 16, 1991) was an [[attorney]] who held five significant positions in his adopted state of [[Louisiana]] between 1940 and 1972.
His political career began as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative and then as a one-term lieutenant governor under [[Earl Long]], with whom he had a love-hate relationship over the years. From 1956 to 1960, he was the state auditor, an office no longer elected. He was the president and a member of the Louisiana Board of Education from 1960 to 1964, when he began the first of his two terms as the state education superintendent. Yet he never was [[governor]], a position which he unsuccessfully sought in 1952 and again in 1959. He never let the disappointment affect his optimistic spirit and his patriotism.
Dodd was born in Liberty in southeastern [[Texas]] but came to Louisiana as a child so that his father could work in the logging industry. He graduated from [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] and the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]]. After teaching in Allen Parish, he was elected to the legislature in 1940 but took time off for [[United States Army]] service in [[World War II]]. In 1948, he was elected lieutenant governor but grew estranged from his mentor, Earl Long. He lost out to fellow Democrat [[Robert F. Kennon]] in the gubernatorial race in 1952 and failed again in 1959, when [[Jimmie Davis]] won his second non-consecutive term as governor. In the meantime, he was state auditor for a term and education superintendent for two terms until he was unseated in 1971 in the party [[primary]] by Louis Joseph Michot, Jr. (1922-2012), a wealthy [[business]]man from [[Lafayette]]. Dodd failed in a comeback bid for education superintendent in the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary in Louisiana held on November 1, 1975.
Dodd was reconciled with Earl Long and campaigned for the ex-governor in the 1960 congressional primary. Long won the Democratic nomination, then through a closed primary, but died thereafter. Then the losing candidate to Long, Harold B. McSween of Alexandria, was named the nominee and won the 1960 general election, when [[John F. Kennedy]] defeated [[Richard Nixon]] for Louisiana's then ten electoral votes. The congressional seat, the 8th district, no longer exists. Prior to 1958, it was held by one of Long's brothers, George Long, who died in office.
Shortly before his death, Claitors Publishing in Baton Rouge released Dodd's lengthy memoir, ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics''. Dodd, a [[Southern Baptist]], is interred in Baton Rouge.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dodd, Bill}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War II]]
| name=William Joseph "Bill" Dodd
| image=Bill Dodd.jpg
| image size =
| caption =
| office=[[Louisiana]] Superintendent of Education
| term_start=May 1964
| term_end=May 1972
| preceded=Shelby Marion Jackson
| succeeded=Louis Joseph Michot, Jr.
| office2=Member of the Louisiana State Board of Education
| term_start2=1960
| term_end2=1964
| preceded2=Merle Welsh
| succeeded2= V.J. Scogin
| office3=Louisiana State [[Auditor]] (later Comptroller; office is no longer elected.)
| term_start3=May 1956
| term_end3=May 1960
| preceded3=[[Allison Kolb]]
| succeeded3=Roy R. Theriot, Sr.
| office4=42nd Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
| term_start4=May 11, 1948
| term_end4=May 13, 1952
| governor4=[[Earl Long]]
| preceded4=J. Emile Verret
| succeeded4=Charles Emmett "Cap" Barham
| office5=Louisiana State Representative for Allen Parish
| term_start5=1940
| term_end5=May 11, 1948
| preceded5=David Cole
| succeeded5=M.V. Hargrove
| birth_date=November 25, 1909
| birth_place=Liberty, [[Texas]]
| death_date=November 16, 1991 (aged 81)
| death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana
| spouse=Verone Ford Dodd (married 1939-1991, his death)
| children=William Ford Dodd<br>
Leonard Bruce Dodd
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| occupation=[[Attorney]]; [[Politician]]<br>
[[United States Army]] in [[World War II]]
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
}}
'''William Joseph Dodd''', known as '''Bill Dodd''' (November 25, 1909 – November 16, 1991) was an [[attorney]] who held five significant positions in his adopted state of [[Louisiana]] between 1940 and 1972.
His political career began as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative and then as a one-term lieutenant governor under [[Earl Long]], with whom he had a love-hate relationship over the years. From 1956 to 1960, he was the state auditor, an office no longer elected. He was the president and a member of the Louisiana Board of Education from 1960 to 1964, when he began the first of his two terms as the state education superintendent. Yet he never was [[governor]], a position which he unsuccessfully sought in 1952 and again in 1959. He never let the disappointment affect his optimistic spirit and his patriotism.
Dodd was born in Liberty in southeastern [[Texas]] but came to Louisiana as a child so that his father could work in the logging industry. He graduated from [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] and the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]]. After teaching in Allen Parish, he was elected to the legislature in 1940 but took time off for [[United States Army]] service in [[World War II]]. In 1948, he was elected lieutenant governor but grew estranged from his mentor, Earl Long. He lost out to fellow Democrat [[Robert F. Kennon]] in the gubernatorial race in 1952 and failed again in 1959, when [[Jimmie Davis]] won his second non-consecutive term as governor. In the meantime, he was state auditor for a term and education superintendent for two terms until he was unseated in 1971 in the party [[primary]] by Louis Joseph Michot, Jr. (1922-2012), a wealthy [[business]]man from [[Lafayette]]. Dodd failed in a comeback bid for education superintendent in the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary in Louisiana held on November 1, 1975.
Dodd was reconciled with Earl Long and campaigned for the ex-governor in the 1960 congressional primary. Long won the Democratic nomination, then through a closed primary, but died thereafter. Then the losing candidate to Long, Harold B. McSween of Alexandria, was named the nominee and won the 1960 general election, when [[John F. Kennedy]] defeated [[Richard Nixon]] for Louisiana's then ten electoral votes. The congressional seat, the 8th district, no longer exists. Prior to 1958, it was held by one of Long's brothers, George Long, who died in office.
Shortly before his death, Claitors Publishing in Baton Rouge released Dodd's lengthy memoir, ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics''. Dodd, a [[Southern Baptist]], is interred in Baton Rouge.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dodd, Bill}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War II]]