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==Background==
==Background==
Downs, who has two sisters, is the son of Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985) of Alexandria who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature and was a confidant of [[Governor]]s [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] and [[John J. McKeithen]]. His mother, the former Alice Daigre (pronounced 'Dage'), subsequently Alice Downs and then Alice Thomas (1914-1994), was a sister of the Alexandria consulting engineer Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr.<ref name=jamdowns/> Sammy Downs is buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]].<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk'', May 15, 1985.</ref> Alice Daigre Downs Thomas, who died nine years after the passing of her first husband, from whom she was divorced, is interred at the Henderson James Cemetery in rural Hot Wells in Rapides Parish.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk'', August 22, 1994.</ref>
Downs, who has two sisters, is the son of Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985) of Alexandria who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature and was a confidant of [[Governor]]s [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] and [[John J. McKeithen]]. His mother, the former Alice Daigre (pronounced 'Dage'), subsequently Alice Downs and then Alice Thomas (1914-1994), was a sister of the Alexandria consulting engineer Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr.<ref name=jamdowns/> (1915-1981). Sammy Downs is interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]].<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk'', May 15, 1985.</ref> Alice Daigre Downs Thomas, who died nine years after the passing of her first husband, from whom she was divorced, is interred at the Henderson James Cemetery in rural Hot Wells in Rapides Parish.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk'', August 22, 1994.</ref>
Downs' uncle, [[J. Earl Downs]], was the public safety commissioner prior to 1963 in [[Shreveport]], where he served alongside [[Mayor]]s James Creswell Gardner, Sr. (1924-2010) and Clyde Edward Fant, Sr. (1905-1973).<ref>Elliott Stonecipher, "Shreveport History: In Support of the Spring Street Museum", February 4, 2012.</ref> He was unseated in the 1962 Democratic primary by George Wendell D'Artois, Sr. (1925-1977).
Downs' uncle, [[J. Earl Downs]], was the public safety commissioner prior to 1963 in [[Shreveport]], where he served alongside [[Mayor]]s James Creswell Gardner, Sr. (1924-2010) and Clyde Edward Fant, Sr. (1905-1973).<ref>Elliott Stonecipher, "Shreveport History: In Support of the Spring Street Museum", February 4, 2012.</ref> He was unseated in the 1962 Democratic primary by George Wendell D'Artois, Sr. (1925-1977).