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Line 15: − + − + − + − + − + − − + − + − + − + − Along with his senatorial campaign manager Richard Lowrie Hagy (1921-1992), also of New Orleans,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Hagy&GSfn=Richard&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=8014723&df=all&|title=Richard Lowrie Hagy|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> and Tom Stagg were among the Louisiana delegation to the 1960 [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Chicago]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reese.html|title=George W. Reese, Jr.|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> Smallenberger and Harrison Bagwell, the Baton Rouge lawyer who was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1952 against [[Robert F. Kennon]], were alternate delegates to the Chicago conclave.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/LA.html|title=Louisiana delegation to the 1960 Republican National Convention|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> The party nominated Vice President [[Richard M. Nixon]] to run in the presidential election]] against U.S. Senator [[John F. Kennedy]], who subsequently handily won all of Louisiana's then ten [[electoral vote]]s.+ + − + Line 42:
Line 43: − + − + − + − Reese moved in 1996 to Poplarville in Pearl River County in southwestern [[Mississippi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=George+Wilson&gsln=Reese%2c+Jr.&mswpn__ftp=Poplarville%2c+MS&msbdy=1923&uidh=upc&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=4294437&db=USpublicrecords3&indiv=1&ml_rpos=1|title=George W. Reese Jr.|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=January 7, 2015}}</ref> He died in New Orleans early in 1998 at the age of seventy-four.<ref name=reeseancestry/> His surviving widow, Mary Ann Z. Reese (born November 1939), is a Republican voter iMetairie in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/home.aspx?galogin=voter |title=Mary Reese, November 1939 |publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State |accessdate=January 7, 2015 }}{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A 1957 graduate of Academy of Holy Angels in New Orleans, she formerly resided in Prentiss and Poplarville, Mississippi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&qf=Mary&qmi=Z&qn=Reese&qcs=New+Orleans%2C+LA&focusfirst=0|title=Mary Z. Reese|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=January 7, 2015}}</ref> + + + + + + + + + + + + − + − + − [[Category:Mississippi]]
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(Louisiana attorney and Republican political activist)
(Louisiana attorney and Republican political activist)
|name=George Wilson Reese, Jr.
|birth_place=[[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], USA
|birth_place=[[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], USA
|birth_date=August 10, 1923
|birth_date=August 10, 1923
George, Sr., and Marcelle Josephine Jacquet Reese}}
George, Sr., and Marcelle Josephine Jacquet Reese}}
'''George Wilson Reese, Jr.''' (August 10, 1923 – January 22, 1998),<ref name=reeseancestry>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=ms_f-2_s&gsfn=George+Wilson&gsln=Reese&mswpn__ftp=New+Orleans%2C+LA&msbdy=1924&uidh=upc|title=George Wilson Reese, Jr.|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> was an [[attorney]] from [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], who was a leading figure in the development of his state's [[Republican Party]] during the 1950s and the 1960s.
'''George Wilson Reese, Jr.''' (August 10, 1923 – January 22, 1998),<ref name=reeseancestry>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=ms_f-2_s&gsfn=George+Wilson&gsln=Reese&mswpn__ftp=New+Orleans%2C+LA&msbdy=1924&uidh=upc|title=George Wilson Reese Jr.|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> was an [[attorney]] from [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], who was a leading figure in the development of his state's [[Republican Party]]
during the 1950s and the 1960s. He ran in the 1st congressional district for the [[United States House of Representatives]] against [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Felix Edward Hébert in 1952 and 1954 and for the [[United States Senate]] in 1960 against incumbent [[Allen J. Ellender]]. He was prior to 1960 the state's [[Republican National Committee|Republican national committeeman]].
He ran in the 1st congressional district for the [[United States House of Representatives]] against [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Felix Edward Hébert in 1952 and 1954 and for the [[United States Senate]] in 1960 against incumbent [[Allen J. Ellender]]. He was prior to 1960 the state's [[Republican National Committee|Republican national committeeman]].
==Background==
==Background==
Reese was the only son of George Reese, Sr. (1886–1952), a native [[California]]n who worked for the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'' [[newspaper]], and the former Marcelle Josephine Jacquet (1891-1973), who died in Donaldsonville in Ascension Parish.<ref name=genealogy>{{cite web|url=http://louisiana-genealogy.com/Orleans-Parish/R/Reese.htm|title=Reese - Orleans Parish, 1940 Census|publisher=Louisiana.genealogy.com|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> He had two sisters, Marcelle Reese LeBlanc Couhig (1916-1985) and Rosemary Reese (1922-2000), who like her mother died in Donaldsonville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://genforum.genealogy.com/reese/messages/460.html|title=Reeses of the Felicianas in Louisiana|publisher=genforum.genealogy.com|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref>
Reese was the only son of George Reese, Sr. (1886–1952), a native [[California]]n who worked for the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'' [[newspaper]], and the former Marcelle Josephine Jacquet (1891-1973), who died in Donaldsonville in Ascension Parish.<ref name=genealogy>{{cite web|url=http://louisiana-genealogy.com/Orleans-Parish/R/Reese.htm|title=Reese - Orleans Parish, 1940 Census|publisher=Louisiana.genealogy.com|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> He had two sisters, Marcelle Reese LeBlanc Couhig (1916-1985) and Rosemary Reese (1922-2000), who like her mother died in Donaldsonville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://genforum.genealogy.com/reese/messages/460.html|title=Reeses of the Felicianas in Louisiana|publisher=genforum.genealogy.com|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref>
Marcelle Reese was first married to Sam LeBlanc, Jr., who was killed during [[World War II]]; the couple had a daughter and a son, Sam A. LeBlanc, III, who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 1980 and practices law in St. Francisville in West Feliciana Parish. From her second marriage to Robert E. Couhig, Sr., Marcelle began working in the hospitality business and wrote ''The Asphodel Plantation Cookbook'', with regional recipes. Robert and Marcelle Couhig had, among several children, two other sons who entered politics as Republicans, Robert E. "Rob" Couhig, Jr., a New Orleans [[business]]man and former candidate for the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district and for [[mayor]] of New Orleans, and Kevin H. Couhig, the first president of West Feliciana Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=robert-e-couhig-bob&pid=171165165#sthash.TKjpLoSb.dpuf|title=Robert E. "Bob" Couhig Sr. Obituary|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=May 30, 2014}}</ref> LeBlanc and the Couhigs are hence maternal nephews of George Reese, Jr.
Marcelle Reese was first married to Sam LeBlan, Jr., who was killed during [[World War II]]; the couple had a daughter and a son, Sam A. LeBlanc, III, who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 1980 and practices law in St. Francisville in West Feliciana Parish. From her second marriage to Robert E. Couhig, Sr., Marcelle began working in the hospitality business and wrote ''The Asphodel Plantation Cookbook'', with regional recipes. Robert and Marcelle Couhig had, among several children, two other sons who entered politics as Republicans, Robert E. "Rob" Couhig, Jr., a New Orleans [[business]]man and former candidate for the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district and for [[mayor]] of New Orleans, and Kevin H. Couhig, the first president of West Feliciana Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=robert-e-couhig-bob&pid=171165165#sthash.TKjpLoSb.dpuf|title=Robert E. "Bob" Couhig Sr. Obituary|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=May 30, 2014}}</ref> LeBlanc and the Couhigs are hence maternal nephews of George Reese, Jr.
In the 1940 census, Reese was listed as a resident of 1125 Royal Street in Ward 6 in New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Louisiana/Marcelle-Reese_49jxjh|title=Marcelle Reese in the 1940 Census|publisher=ancestry.com|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> After two years of college, Reese served from 1942 to 1945 during [[World War II]] in the [[United States Army]] Air Corps, the forerunner to the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=George+Wilson&gsln=Reese+Jr.&mswpn__ftp=New+Orleans&msbdy=1923&uidh=upc&pcat=39&h=518570&recoff=5+6+7&db=WWIIenlist&indiv=1&ml_rpos=16|title=George W. Reese Jr.|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=January 7, 2015}}</ref>
In the 1940 census, Reese was listed as a resident of 1125 Royal Street in Ward 6 in New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Louisiana/Marcelle-Reese_49jxjh|title=Marcelle Reese in the 1940 Census|publisher=ancestry.com|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> After two years of college, Reese served from 1942 to 1945 during [[World War II]] in the [[United States Army]] Air Corps, the forerunner to the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=George+Wilson&gsln=Reese+Jr.&mswpn__ftp=New+Orleans&msbdy=1923&uidh=upc&pcat=39&h=518570&recoff=5+6+7&db=WWIIenlist&indiv=1&ml_rpos=16|title=George W. Reese Jr.|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=January 7, 2015}}</ref>
He thereafter graduated from [[Tulane University]] and the Tulane Law School of Law in New Orleans. He was a member of Phi Delta Phi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phideltaphi.org/person/4615943/-George-Reese.htm|title=George Wilson Reese Jr.|publisher=Phideltaphi.org|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref>
He thereafter graduated from [[Tulane University]] and the Tulane Law School of Law in New Orleans. He was a member of Phi Delta Phi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phideltaphi.org/person/4615943/-George-Reese.htm|title=George Wilson Reese Jr.|publisher=Phideltaphi.org|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref>
==Political life==
==Political life==
In the 1952 U.S. House election, Reese polled a third of the vote against Representative Hébert; he ran with [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] at the top of the Republican ticket. In 1954, a mid-term election year, Reese again challenged Hébert but polled only one-sixth of the votes cast, with no presidential contest on the ballot.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, General election returns, November 4, 1952 and November 2, 1954.</ref>
In the 1952 U.S. House election, Reese polled a third of the vote against Representative Hébert; he ran with [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] at the top of the Republican ticket. In 1954, a mid-term election year, Reese again challenged Hébert but polled only one-sixth of the votes cast, with no presidential contest on the ballot.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, General election returns, November 4, 1952 and November 2, 1954.</ref>
In 1959, Reese, as the Louisiana Republican national committeeman, and LeRoy Charles Smallenberger (1912-2002), an attorney in [[Shreveport]] who was elected the state party chairman in 1960, became involved in an intra-party feud with Thomas Eaton Stagg, Jr. (1923-2015), another Shreveport lawyer and subsequent judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, and Charles Thomas Beaird (1922-2006), the later publisher of the defunct ''[[Shreveport Journal]]'' and a then Republican member of the Caddo Parish Police Jury. Stagg and Beaird objected when Reese endorsed, with Smallenberger in agreement, a slate of candidates for party position on both the state and parish committees. Stagg argued that Reese had attempted to assemble a group of "yes-men" and had hence "earned the enmity of a large number of fair-minded Republicans".<ref>"GOP Faction Fight Erupts Over Primary: 4th District Head Charges Attempt to Pack Committee", ''The Shreveport Times'', December 2, 1959, p. 1.</ref> Reese, however, defended his endorsements, most of whom won their primary races, on the premise that he as a statewide party leader was obligated to recommend suitable candidates to the rank-and-file.<ref>"Endorsements Defended by GOP Leader: Reese answers attack by Stagg as Faction Fight", ''The Shreveport Times'', December 3, 1959, pp. 1, 4.</ref> At the time, Reese appointed Smallenberger as the "assistant national committeeman for North Louisiana".<ref>"Attorney Here Appointed to GOP Position", ''The Shreveport Times'', December 2, 1959, p. 4-A.</ref>
In 1959, Reese, as the Louisiana Republican national committeeman, and LeRoy Charles Smallenberger (1912-2002), an attorney in [[Shreveport]] who was elected the state party chairman in 1960, became involved in an intra-party feud with Thomas Eaton Stagg, Jr. (1923-2015), another Shreveport lawyer and subsequent judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, and Charles Thomas Beaird (1922-2006), the later publisher of the defunct ''[[Shreveport Journal]]'' and a then Republican member of the Caddo Parish Police Jury. Stagg and Beaird objected when Reese endorsed, with Smallenberger in agreement, a slate of candidates for party position on both the state and parish committees. Stagg argued that Reese had attempted to assemble a group of "yes-men" and had hence "earned the enmity of a large number of fair-minded Republicans".<ref>"GOP Faction Fight Erupts Over Primary: 4th District Head Charges Attempt to Pack Committee", ''The Shreveport Times'', December 2, 1959, p. 1.</ref> Reese, however, defended his endorsements, most of whom won their primary races, on the premise that he as a statewide party leader was obligated to recommend suitable candidates to the rank-and-file.<ref>"Endorsements Defended by GOP Leader: Reese answers attack by Stagg as Faction Fight", ''The Shreveport Times'', December 3, 1959, pp. 1, 4.</ref> At the time, Reese appointed Smallenberger as the "assistant national committeeman for North Louisiana".<ref>"Attorney Here Appointed to GOP Position", ''The Shreveport Times'', December 2, 1959, p. 4-A.</ref>
Reese, along with his senatorial campaign manager Richard Lowrie Hagy (1921-1992), also of New Orleans,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Hagy&GSfn=Richard&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=8014723&df=all&|title=Richard Lowrie Hagy|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> and Tom Stagg were among the Louisiana delegation to the 1960 [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Chicago]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reese.html|title=George W. Reese Jr.|publisher=[[The Political Graveyard]]|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> Smallenberger and Harrison Bagwell, the Baton Rouge lawyer who was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1952 against [[Robert F. Kennon]], were alternate delegates to the Chicago conclave.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/LA.html|title=Louisiana delegation to the 1960 Republican National Convention|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref>
The party nominated Vice President [[Richard M. Nixon]] to run in the presidential election]] against U.S. Senator [[John F. Kennedy]], who subsequently handily won all of Louisiana's then ten [[electoral vote]]s.
Two days before the Republican convention in Chicago began its proceedings, Reese won a low-turnout senatorial closed primary victory over William Dane (1893-1966) of New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Dane&GSfn=William+&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=119327828&df=all&|title=William Dane|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=January 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/7995658/|title=Primary election preview|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=July 21, 1960|page=3|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> With just over 1,000 votes cast, Reese received 762; Dane, 278.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Republican primary returns, July 23, 1960.</ref> Reese then attended the convention and thereafter campaigned across the state in the fall. In [[Lake Charles]], he claimed that Senator Ellender had been lax in protecting military installations in Louisiana from being downsized or dismantled, with the impacted military services sent to bases in other states. "There has been inadequate representation of the state in these matters," Reese said.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/8302195/|title=The election of a Republican senator from Louisiana can reverse the trend of removal of federal installations from the state ...|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=October 26, 1960|page=37|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> Ellender had been critical of the investigations into communist infiltration of the U.S. government waged in the 1950s by U.S. Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] of [[Wisconsin]]. Reese accused Ellender of being "soft on communism". The Democrat retorted that Reese's allegation came with "ill grace for the spokesman for the member of a party (the Eisenhower administration) which has permitted the establishment of a Red-dominated beach head ([[Cuba]]) only ninety miles from our shores to attack my record against the spread of communism."<ref>''The Alexandria Daily Town Talk'', November 5, 1960, p. 19.</ref>
Two days before the Republican convention in Chicago began its proceedings, Reese won a low-turnout senatorial closed primary victory over William Dane (1893-1966) of New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Dane&GSfn=William+&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=119327828&df=all&|title=William Dane|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=January 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/7995658/|title=Primary election preview|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=July 21, 1960|page=3|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> With just over 1,000 votes cast, Reese received 762; Dane, 278.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Republican primary returns, July 23, 1960.</ref> Reese then attended the convention and thereafter campaigned across the state in the fall. In [[Lake Charles]], he claimed that Senator Ellender had been lax in protecting military installations in Louisiana from being downsized or dismantled, with the impacted military services sent to bases in other states. "There has been inadequate representation of the state in these matters," Reese said.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/8302195/|title=The election of a Republican senator from Louisiana can reverse the trend of removal of federal installations from the state ...|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=October 26, 1960|page=37|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> Ellender had been critical of the investigations into communist infiltration of the U.S. government waged in the 1950s by U.S. Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] of [[Wisconsin]]. Reese even accused Ellender of being "soft on communism". The Democrat retorted that Reese's allegation came with "ill grace for the spokesman for the member of a party (the Eisenhower administration) which has permitted the establishment of a Red-dominated beach head ([[Cuba]]) only ninety miles from our shores to attack my record against the spread of communism."<ref>''The Alexandria Daily Town Talk'', November 5, 1960, p. 19.</ref>
In a Republican campaign rally in [[Lafayette]], national party nominee Richard Nixon claimed that "those who adopted the Democratic platform in the [[Los Angeles]]convention forfeited the right to ask millions of Democrats to be loyal to their party." Yet Nixon failed even to introduce Reese as Ellender's opponent before the Lafayette gathering.<ref name=gopinla>Billy Hathorn, ''The Republican Party in Louisiana, 1920-1980'', ([[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]]: [[Northwestern State University]], 1980), pp. 102-103.</ref>
In a Republican campaign rally in [[Lafayette]], national party nominee Richard Nixon claimed that "those who adopted the Democratic platform in the [[Los Angeles]]convention forfeited the right to ask millions of Democrats to be loyal to their party." Yet Nixon failed even to introduce Reese as Ellender's opponent before the Lafayette gathering.<ref name=gopinla>Billy Hathorn, ''The Republican Party in Louisiana, 1920-1980'', ([[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]]: [[Northwestern State University]], 1980), pp. 102-103.</ref>
Reese polled 109,698 votes (20.2 percent) in the [[general election]]; Ellender, 432,228 (79.8 percent). Reese polled less than half the vote that Nixon received in Louisiana, whereas Ellender outpolled Kennedy by nearly 25,000. Some 266,000 who voted in the presidential contest skipped the Senate race altogether.<ref name=gopinla/><ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, General election returns, November 8, 1960.</ref> Ellender held the seat from 1936 until his death in office in 1972.
Reese polled 109,698 votes (20.2 percent) in the [[general election]]; Ellender, 432,228 (79.8 percent). Reese polled less than half the vote that Nixon received in Louisiana, whereas Ellender outpolled Kennedy by nearly 25,000. Some 266,000 who voted in the presidential contest skipped the Senate race altogether.<ref name=gopinla/><ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, General election returns, November 8, 1960.</ref> Ellender held the seat from 1936 until his death in office in 1972.
In the summer of 1977, U.S. Senators [[Russell Long]] and [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], Ellender's long-term successor, submitted Reese's name to [[U.S. President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] to become the U.S. attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, based in New Orleans. Some [[African-American]]s objected because of Reese's former activities in the Republican Party. The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] notified Reese of "allegations" that he drank and gambled and once procured a loan from a financial institution with mob ties. A shocked Reese withdrew his nomination, and John Volz was proclaimed the Carter administration's preferred candidate. A Democrat at the time, Volz subsequently switched his registration to Republican and was held over by the [[Ronald W. Reagan]] administration. Thereafter, Volz prosecuted [[Mafia]] figure Carlos Marcello and a number of Democratic office holders,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thelensnola.org/2012/12/18/with-letten-gone-tis-the-season-for-intrigue-and-wild-rumors/|title=With Letten gone, 'tis the season for intrigue and wild rumors|publisher=thelensnola.org|author=Mark Moseley|date=December 18, 2012|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> including former Commissioner of Administration [[Charles E. Roemer, II]], Orleans Parish]] District Attorney [Harry Connick Sr., state Senate President Michael H. O'Keefe, Sr., and [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/02/former_us_attorney_john_volz_d.html|author=John Pope|title=John Volz: Prosecutor took on powerful foes|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|page=A!, A23|date=February 13, 2011|accessdate=April 4, 2019}}</ref>
In the summer of 1977, U.S. Senators [[Russell Long]] and [[J. Bennett Johnston Jr.]], Ellender's long-term successor, submitted Reese's name to [[U.S. President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] to become the U.S. attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, based in New Orleans. Some [[African-American]]s objected because of Reese's former activities in the Republican Party. The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] notified Reese of "allegations" that he drank and gambled and once procured a loan from a financial institution with mob ties. A shocked Reese withdrew his nomination, and John Volz was proclaimed the Carter administration's preferred candidate. A Democrat at the time, Volz subsequently switched his registration to Republican and was held over by the [[Ronald W. Reagan]] administration. Thereafter, Volz prosecuted [[Mafia]] figure Carlos Marcello and a number of Democratic office holders,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thelensnola.org/2012/12/18/with-letten-gone-tis-the-season-for-intrigue-and-wild-rumors/|title=With Letten gone, 'tis the season for intrigue and wild rumors|publisher=thelensnola.org|author=Mark Moseley|date=December 18, 2012|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> including former Commissioner of Administration [[Charles E. Roemer, II]], Orleans Parish]] District Attorney Harry Connick Sr., state Senate President Michael H. O'Keefe, Sr], and [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]].<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/02/former_us_attorney_john_volz_d.html
==Later years==
|first = John
|last = Pope
|newspaper =[[New Orleans Times-Picayune]]
|pages = A1, A23
|date = February 13, 2011
|accessdate = February 13, 2011
|issue = Metro Edition
|title = John Volz: Prosecutor took on powerful foes
}}</ref>
==Later years==
Reese moved in 1996 to Poplarville in Pearl River County in southwestern [[Mississippi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=George+Wilson&gsln=Reese%2c+Jr.&mswpn__ftp=Poplarville%2c+MS&msbdy=1923&uidh=upc&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=4294437&db=USpublicrecords3&indiv=1&ml_rpos=1|title=George W. Reese Jr.|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=January 7, 2015}}</ref> He died in New Orleans early in 1998 at the age of seventy-four.<ref name=reeseancestry/> His surviving widow, Mary Ann Z. Reese (born November 1939), is a Republican voter iMetairie in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/home.aspx?galogin=voter |title=Mary Reese, November 1939 |publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State |accessdate=January 7, 2015 }}{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A 1957 graduate of Academy of Holy Angels in New Orleans, she formerly resided in Prentiss and Poplarville, Mississippi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&qf=Mary&qmi=Z&qn=Reese&qcs=New+Orleans%2C+LA&focusfirst=0|title=Mary Z. Reese|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=January 7, 2015}}</ref>
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