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==Gubernatorial race==

==Gubernatorial race==

With the backing of Governor Kennon, who was ineligible to seek a second consecutive four-year term, Preaus declared his candidacy for governor in 1955.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dIhZxpoZVIQC&pg=PA378 |title=The Eisenhower Years|author=Michael S. Mayer|date=2010|page=378|publisher=|location=|isbn=978-0-8160-5387-2|accessdate=February 17, 2015}}</ref> Preaus's platform stressed law enforcement with use of the Louisiana National Guard as needed,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/3909247/|title=Pre3aus will use Guard to enforce law|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=January 5, 1956|page=1|accessdate=February 18, 2015}}</ref> industrial development, tidelands oil revenues, long-range highway planning, no state tax increases, greater independence for local governments, expanded facilities for mental and tuberculosis patients, $65 per month welfare payments to the elderly or needy, the dredging of twenty new lakes,<ref name=mhwr/> and the maintenance of racial [[segregation]], the opposition to which he blamed on "outside agitators."<ref name=segregation>"Preaus Takes Strong Stand on Segregation," ''Minden Herald,'' December 8, 1955, p. 1.</ref> Preaus claimed that the [[NAACP]] [[civil rights]] organization was upsetting the "goodwill" that existed in Louisiana between the races.<ref name=segregation/>​

With the backing of Governor Kennon, who was ineligible to seek a second consecutive four-year term, Preaus declared his candidacy for governor in 1955.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dIhZxpoZVIQC&pg=PA378 |title=The Eisenhower Years|author=Michael S. Mayer|date=2010|page=378|publisher=|location=|isbn=978-0-8160-5387-2|accessdate=February 17, 2015}}</ref> Preaus's platform stressed law enforcement with use of the Louisiana National Guard as needed,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/3909247/|title=Pre3aus will use Guard to enforce law|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=January 5, 1956|page=1|accessdate=February 18, 2015}}</ref> industrial development, tidelands oil revenues, long-range highway planning, no state tax increases, greater independence for local governments, expanded facilities for mental and tuberculosis patients, $65 per month welfare payments to the elderly or needy, the dredging of twenty new lakes,<ref name=mhwr/> and the maintenance of racial [[segregation]], the opposition to which he blamed on "outside agitators."<ref name=segregation>"Preaus Takes Strong Stand on Segregation," ''Minden Herald,'' December 8, 1955, p. 1.</ref> Preaus claimed that the [[NAACP]] [[civil rights]] organization was upsetting the "goodwill" that existed in Louisiana between the races.<ref name=segregation/>​

 

For lieutenant governor, Preaus allied with [[New Orleans]] City Council member Andre Brown Moore, a 1934 graduate of the [[Tulane University]] Law School who had served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps under [[General]] [[George S. Patton]]'s [[Third Army]]

For lieutenant governor, Preaus allied with [[New Orleans]] City Council member Andre Brown Moore, a 1934 graduate of the [[Tulane University]] Law School who had served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps under [[General]] [[George S. Patton]]'s [[Third Army]]

during [[World War II]]. Prior to the formation of the mayor-council form of government, Moore was from 1950 to 1954 the New Orleans public utilities commissioner. Then from 1954 to 1957, he was a city councilman. DeLesseps Story Morrison, Sr. (1912-1964) was the [[mayor]] throughout the decade and a first-time gubernatorial candidate against Preaus in 1956. Previously, Brown had carried the support of all Democratic political factions and daily newspapers in New Orleans.<ref name=mhwr/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://specialcollections.tulane.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=573&q=Slavery+documents+collection.|title=Andre Brown Moore papers|publisher=[[Tulane University]]|accessdate=February 15, 2015}}</ref>​

during [[World War II]]. Prior to the formation of the mayor-council form of government, Moore was from 1950 to 1954 the New Orleans public utilities commissioner. Then from 1954 to 1957, he was a city councilman. DeLesseps Story Morrison, Sr. (1912-1964) was the [[mayor]] throughout the decade and a first-time gubernatorial candidate against Preaus in 1956. Previously, Brown had carried the support of all Democratic political factions and daily newspapers in New Orleans.<ref name=mhwr/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://specialcollections.tulane.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=573&q=Slavery+documents+collection.|title=Andre Brown Moore papers|publisher=[[Tulane University]]|accessdate=February 15, 2015}}</ref>​

A media announcer mispronounced his name as PROASE, rather than PROOSE (rhymes with "moose"), a fact recalled by the [[NBC]] announcer, Bill Monroe.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2hANJXIV_N4C&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=Fred+Preaus+of+Louisiana&source=bl&ots=cfUUEDQlo_&sig=8Lix8h_j--zHcgsf3x8d1N5_8Ds&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rS7gVOGcJYm7ggSIzYPoDw&ved=0CFAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Fred%20Preaus%20of%20Louisiana&f=false|title=Writing News for Broadcast|publisher=[[Columbia University]] Press|location=[[New York City]]|author=Edward Bliss and James L. Hoyt|page=28|date=1994|isbn=0-231-07972-9|accessdate=February 14, 2015}}</ref>​

A media announcer mispronounced his name as PROASE, rather than PROOSE (rhymes with "moose"), a fact recalled by the [[NBC]] announcer, Bill Monroe.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2hANJXIV_N4C&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=Fred+Preaus+of+Louisiana&source=bl&ots=cfUUEDQlo_&sig=8Lix8h_j--zHcgsf3x8d1N5_8Ds&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rS7gVOGcJYm7ggSIzYPoDw&ved=0CFAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Fred%20Preaus%20of%20Louisiana&f=false|title=Writing News for Broadcast|publisher=[[Columbia University]] Press|location=[[New York City]]|author=Edward Bliss and James L. Hoyt|page=28|date=1994|isbn=0-231-07972-9|accessdate=February 14, 2015}}</ref>​

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Opponent [[EarlLong|Earl Kemp Long]] belittled Preaus, who had the reputation as a scrupulously honest, small-town car dealer and church [[deacon]]:​

Opponent [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] belittled Preaus, who had the reputation as a scrupulously honest, small-town car dealer and church [[deacon]]:​

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<blockquote>Fred Preaus is an honest man. If I were buying a Ford car, I'd buy it from Fred Preaus. He would give me a good deal. If I had trouble with the car, he'd give me a loaner while he got it fixed &mdash; that's just the kind of man he is. But if I was buying two Fords &mdash; well, he's just not big enough to handle a deal that size.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prorev.com/quotes4.htm|title=Free Thoughts|publisher=prorev.com|accessdate=September 5, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSQhjOpYTo4C&pg=PA182 |author=Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples|title=The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics|page= 182|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press|location=[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana]]|date=1990|isbn=0-8071-1577-0|accessdate=January 29, 2015}}</ref></blockquote> Long's remarks about Preaus were still being recalled as recently as 2011. Long inadvertently turned Preaus into something of a celebrity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.revolution21.org/2011/01/ghost-of-fred-preaus.html|title=The Ghost of Fred Preaus|publisher=revolution21.org|accessdate=February 15, 2015}}</ref>​

<blockquote>Fred Preaus is an honest man. If I were buying a Ford car, I'd buy it from Fred Preaus. He would give me a good deal. If I had trouble with the car, he'd give me a loaner while he got it fixed &mdash; that's just the kind of man he is. But if I was buying two Fords &mdash; well, he's just not big enough to handle a deal that size.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prorev.com/quotes4.htm|title=Free Thoughts|publisher=prorev.com|accessdate=September 5, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSQhjOpYTo4C&pg=PA182 |author=Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples|title=The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics|page= 182|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press|location=[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana]]|date=1990|isbn=0-8071-1577-0|accessdate=January 29, 2015}}</ref></blockquote>  

 

Long's remarks about Preaus were still being recalled as recently as 2011. Long inadvertently turned Preaus into something of a celebrity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.revolution21.org/2011/01/ghost-of-fred-preaus.html|title=The Ghost of Fred Preaus|publisher=revolution21.org|accessdate=February 15, 2015}}</ref>​

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Late in 1955, Preaus said that if he were elected governor he would want the Democratic presidential nominee in 1956 to run under the [[rooster]] emblem, unlike in 1948 when President [[Harry Truman]] was placed under the national donkey emblem and lost Louisiana's [[electoral vote]]s to [[Dixiecrat]] [[Strom Thurmond]] of [[South Carolina]], who was named the official Democratic nominee in Louisiana. Preaus said that he had ruled out supporting at least one potential Democratic candidate, Governor [[G. Mennen Williams]] of [[Michigan]], who announced that he favored stripping all federal aid to those states that maintained racial segregation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/mississippi/biloxi/biloxi-daily-herald/1955/12-24/page-9|title=''Biloxi Daily Herald''|location=Biloxi, Mississippi|date=December 24, 1955|page=9|accessdate=February 18, 2015}}</ref>​

Late in 1955, Preaus said that if he were elected governor he would want the Democratic presidential nominee in 1956 to run under the [[rooster]] emblem, unlike in 1948 when President [[Harry Truman]] was placed under the national donkey emblem and lost Louisiana's [[electoral vote]]s to [[Dixiecrat]] [[Strom Thurmond]] of [[South Carolina]], who was named the official Democratic nominee in Louisiana. Preaus said that he had ruled out supporting at least one potential Democratic candidate, Governor [[G. Mennen Williams]] of [[Michigan]], who announced that he favored stripping all federal aid to those states that maintained racial segregation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/mississippi/biloxi/biloxi-daily-herald/1955/12-24/page-9|title=''Biloxi Daily Herald''|location=Biloxi, Mississippi|date=December 24, 1955|page=9|accessdate=February 18, 2015}}</ref>​