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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=LeRoy Cullom Smallenberger
|name=LeRoy Cullom Smallenberger
|office=Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
|office=Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of [[Louisiana]]
|term_start=November 2, 1954
|term_start=November 2, 1954
|term_end=August 8, 1986
|term_end=August 8, 1986
}}
}}
'''LeRoy Cullom Smallenberger, Sr.''' (November 13, 1912 – July 6, 2002),<ref name=small>{{cite web|url=http://records.ancestry.com/LeRoy_Cullom_Smallenberger_Peoria_Illinois_USA_records.ashx?pid=52358685&gss=seo|title=LeRoy Cullom Smallenberger (1912-2002)|publisher=records.ancestry.com|accessdate=May 25, 2014}}</ref> was a [[lawyer]] and [[judge]] in [[Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], who was also from 1960 to 1964 the state chairman of the [[Republican Party]].
'''LeRoy Cullom Smallenberger, Sr.''' (November 13, 1912 – July 6, 2002),<ref name=small>{{cite web|url=http://records.ancestry.com/LeRoy_Cullom_Smallenberger_Peoria_Illinois_USA_records.ashx?pid=52358685&gss=seo|title=LeRoy Cullom Smallenberger (1912-2002)|publisher=records.ancestry.com|accessdate=May 25, 2014}}</ref> was a [[lawyer]] and [[judge]] in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], who was also from 1960 to 1964 the state chairman of the [[Republican Party]].
==Political life==
==Political life==
According to the website The Political Graveyard, Smallenberger came to Shreveport prior to 1948, a decade after receiving his law degree.<ref name=polgrave/> In 1956, he was practicing law in his Smallenberger, Eatman & Morgan firm.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leagle.com/decision/1956668145FSupp523_1554.xml/DON%20GEORGE,%20INC.%20v.%20PARAMOUNT%20PICTURES|title=DON GEORGE, Inc., et al. v. PARAMOUNT PICTURES, Inc., et al. (October 11, 1956)|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=May 25, 2014}}</ref>
According to the website The Political Graveyard, Smallenberger came to Shreveport prior to 1948, a decade after receiving his law degree.<ref name=polgrave/> In 1956, he was practicing law in his Smallenberger, Eatman & Morgan firm.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leagle.com/decision/1956668145FSupp523_1554.xml/DON%20GEORGE,%20INC.%20v.%20PARAMOUNT%20PICTURES|title=DON GEORGE, Inc., et al. v. PARAMOUNT PICTURES, Inc., et al. (October 11, 1956)|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=May 25, 2014}}</ref>
He was an alternate delegate to both the 1948 [[epublican National Convention]], held in [[Philadelphia]], and the 1952 conclave in [[Chicago]].<ref name=polgrave>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smalley-smit.html|title=Smallenberger, LeRoy|publisher=[[The Political Graveyard]]|accessdate=May 25, 2014}}</ref>
He was an alternate delegate to both the 1948 [[epublican National Convention]], held in [[Philadelphia]], and the 1952 conclave in [[Chicago]].<ref name=polgrave>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smalley-smit.html|title=Smallenberger, LeRoy|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=May 25, 2014}}</ref>
Prior to the state chairmanship, Smallenberger, a Republican since 1938, had been the Republican state chairman for Louisiana's 4th congressional district, then represented by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Thomas Overton Brooks (1897-1961). Beginning in 1988, the district switched to Republican representation. In 1959, Smallenberger and the Louisiana national committeeman, [[George Reese]], of [[New Orleans]], the party's 1960 nominee for the [[United States Senate]] against [[Allen J. Ellender]], became involved in an intraparty feud with Thomas Eaton "Tom" Stagg, Jr. (1923-2015), a Shreveport Republican 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]]''. Stagg objected when Reese endorsed, with Smallenberger in agreement, a slate of candidates for party position on both the state and parish committees. Stagg described Reese as having 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 rank-and-file voters.<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>
Prior to the state chairmanship, Smallenberger, a Republican since 1938, had been the Republican state chairman for Louisiana's 4th congressional district, then represented by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Thomas Overton Brooks (1897-1961). Beginning in 1988, the district switched to Republican representation. In 1959, Smallenberger and the Louisiana national committeeman, [[George Reese]], of [[New Orleans]], the party's 1960 nominee for the [[United States Senate]] against [[Allen J. Ellender]], became involved in an intraparty feud with Thomas Eaton "Tom" Stagg, Jr. (1923-2015), a Shreveport Republican 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]]''. Stagg objected when Reese endorsed, with Smallenberger in agreement, a slate of candidates for party position on both the state and parish committees. Stagg described Reese as having 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 rank-and-file voters.<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>
Though the Louisiana Republican Party coalesced behind Nixon in 1960 and 1968, it could not deliver the state to him until the 1972 campaign, when Nixon also won forty-eight other states.
Though the Louisiana Republican Party coalesced behind Nixon in 1960 and 1968, it could not deliver the state to him until the 1972 campaign, when Nixon also won forty-eight other states.
Smallenberger is interred at Greenwood Town Cemetery in [[Greenwood, Louisiana|Greenwood]] in southwestern Caddo Parish; Doris Smallenberger, at Centuries Memorial Park in Shreveport.
Smallenberger is interred at Greenwood Town Cemetery in Greenwood in southwestern Caddo Parish; Doris Smallenberger, at Centuries Memorial Park in Shreveport.
==References==
==References==
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