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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 the summer of 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 the summer of 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 Hanley 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''|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 (1910-1993) 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 Hanley 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''|date=February 13, 2011|accessdate=April 4, 2019}}</ref>

==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. 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> ​

==References==

==References==