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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 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.​

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.​

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==

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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 "Tom" 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 "Tom" 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>​

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> Reese 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>​

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> Reese 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.​

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.​

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==Later years==​

==Later years==

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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 in Metairie 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> ​

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 in Metairie 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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