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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Vail Montgomery Delony
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for East Carroll Parish
|term_start=1940
|term_end=1967
|preceded= C. H. Hill
|succeeded=Charles L. Vining, Jr.
|office2=Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives
|term_start2=1964
|term_end2=1967
|preceded2=J. Thomas Jewell
|succeeded2=[[John Sidney Garrett]]
|birth_date=January 5, 1901
|birth_place==Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish<br>[[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
|death_date=November 18, 1967 (aged 66)
|death_place=
|spouse=Elizabeth Louise Miller Delony (married 1926–1967, his death)
|children=Elizabeth Delony Ree<br>
Vail Delony Baldridge<br>
'''Parents''': <br>
Tobias Stephens and Helen Key Montgomery Delony
|party=[[Democratic Party |Democrat]]
|occupation=
|religion=
}}
'''Vail Montgomery Delony''' (January 5, 1901 – November 18, 1967) was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative from his native Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish in the northeast corner of [[Louisiana]]. He served from from 1940 until his death in office. He was also [[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]] of the chamber from 1964 until his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|
title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2020 (East Carroll Parish)|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|date=May 21, 2019|accessdate=October 7, 2019}}</ref>
Delony was born to Tobias Stephens Delony (1870-1919) and the former Helen Key Montgomery (1873-1963). On December 26, 1926, he wed the former Elizabeth Louise Miller (since deceased) of Greenville in Washington County in western [[Mississippi]]. The couple had two daughters, Elizabeth Delony Ree and Vail Delony Baldridge<ref name=delony/> (born 1937) of Rayville in Richland Parish. She is the widow of the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] priest William E. Baldridge, Sr. (1927–2007), a native of Dyersburg, [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.franklinsun.com/news.php?id=430|title=Obituary of William E. Baldridge, Sr.|publisher=''Franklin Sun'|date=September 18, 2007|accessdate=September 8, 2010}}</ref>
Delony was a delegate to the 1956 [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], which nominated the [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]]-[[Estes Kefauver]] ticket, the first party slate to lose the [[electoral vote]]s of Louisiana since [[Reconstruction]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/delay-delwin.html|title=Delony, Vail M.|publisher=politicalgraveyard.com|accessdate=September 8, 2010}}</ref>
Delony was a [[Segregation|segregationist]] during his political career but acknowledged how the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]] had given [[African Americans]] a 500-vote edge over white voters in Lake Providence. Delony predicted that blacks did not "have the capacity" to assume political control of East Carroll Parish at that time and would not vote as a bloc unless organized to do so. Delony said that he would welcome black support but would "not stoop to entice" minority voters with political promises.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ePRIONzLmEoC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=Vail+M.+Delony&source=bl&ots=0dMYLZKxBu&sig=AohJDt3ieQnnKDbCMkK-mYSkpoQ&hl=en&ei=qimITJqcE4SglAexq50t&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Vail%20M.%20Delony&f=false|title=The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat|author=Jules Witcover|page=44|publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University]] Press|accessdate=September 8, 2010|isbn=0801882478}}</ref>
On March 25, 1968, [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]], a former state House member from Columbia]] in Caldwell Parish, who had tapped Delony as the House Speaker, dedicated the Vail M. Delony Data Processing Center at the Louisiana Department of Public Safety in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]].<ref name=delony>{{cite web|url=http://eastcarrollparishlouisianagenealogy.com/2009_09_20_archive.html
|title=East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, Genealogy|publisher=eastcarrollparishlouisianagenealogy.com|accessdate=September 21, 2011}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Delony, Vail M.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
|name=Vail Montgomery Delony
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for East Carroll Parish
|term_start=1940
|term_end=1967
|preceded= C. H. Hill
|succeeded=Charles L. Vining, Jr.
|office2=Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives
|term_start2=1964
|term_end2=1967
|preceded2=J. Thomas Jewell
|succeeded2=[[John Sidney Garrett]]
|birth_date=January 5, 1901
|birth_place==Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish<br>[[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
|death_date=November 18, 1967 (aged 66)
|death_place=
|spouse=Elizabeth Louise Miller Delony (married 1926–1967, his death)
|children=Elizabeth Delony Ree<br>
Vail Delony Baldridge<br>
'''Parents''': <br>
Tobias Stephens and Helen Key Montgomery Delony
|party=[[Democratic Party |Democrat]]
|occupation=
|religion=
}}
'''Vail Montgomery Delony''' (January 5, 1901 – November 18, 1967) was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative from his native Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish in the northeast corner of [[Louisiana]]. He served from from 1940 until his death in office. He was also [[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]] of the chamber from 1964 until his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|
title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2020 (East Carroll Parish)|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|date=May 21, 2019|accessdate=October 7, 2019}}</ref>
Delony was born to Tobias Stephens Delony (1870-1919) and the former Helen Key Montgomery (1873-1963). On December 26, 1926, he wed the former Elizabeth Louise Miller (since deceased) of Greenville in Washington County in western [[Mississippi]]. The couple had two daughters, Elizabeth Delony Ree and Vail Delony Baldridge<ref name=delony/> (born 1937) of Rayville in Richland Parish. She is the widow of the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] priest William E. Baldridge, Sr. (1927–2007), a native of Dyersburg, [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.franklinsun.com/news.php?id=430|title=Obituary of William E. Baldridge, Sr.|publisher=''Franklin Sun'|date=September 18, 2007|accessdate=September 8, 2010}}</ref>
Delony was a delegate to the 1956 [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], which nominated the [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]]-[[Estes Kefauver]] ticket, the first party slate to lose the [[electoral vote]]s of Louisiana since [[Reconstruction]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/delay-delwin.html|title=Delony, Vail M.|publisher=politicalgraveyard.com|accessdate=September 8, 2010}}</ref>
Delony was a [[Segregation|segregationist]] during his political career but acknowledged how the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]] had given [[African Americans]] a 500-vote edge over white voters in Lake Providence. Delony predicted that blacks did not "have the capacity" to assume political control of East Carroll Parish at that time and would not vote as a bloc unless organized to do so. Delony said that he would welcome black support but would "not stoop to entice" minority voters with political promises.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ePRIONzLmEoC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=Vail+M.+Delony&source=bl&ots=0dMYLZKxBu&sig=AohJDt3ieQnnKDbCMkK-mYSkpoQ&hl=en&ei=qimITJqcE4SglAexq50t&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Vail%20M.%20Delony&f=false|title=The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat|author=Jules Witcover|page=44|publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University]] Press|accessdate=September 8, 2010|isbn=0801882478}}</ref>
On March 25, 1968, [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]], a former state House member from Columbia]] in Caldwell Parish, who had tapped Delony as the House Speaker, dedicated the Vail M. Delony Data Processing Center at the Louisiana Department of Public Safety in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]].<ref name=delony>{{cite web|url=http://eastcarrollparishlouisianagenealogy.com/2009_09_20_archive.html
|title=East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, Genealogy|publisher=eastcarrollparishlouisianagenealogy.com|accessdate=September 21, 2011}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Delony, Vail M.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]