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|spouse=Elizabeth Louise Miller Delony (married 1926–1967, his death)​

|spouse=Elizabeth Louise Miller Delony (married 1926–1967, his death)​

|children=Elizabeth Delony Ree<br>​

|children=Elizabeth Delony Ree​

Vail Delony Baldridge​<br>

Vail Delony Baldridge​<br>

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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>​

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]].<ref name=delony>{{cite web|url=http://eastcarrollparishlouisianagenealogy.com/2009_09_20_archive.html​

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]].<ref name=delony>{{cite web|url=https://eastcarrollparishlouisianagenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/09/parish-district-judges-of-e-c-la.html​

|title=East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, Genealogy|publisher=eastcarrollparishlouisianagenealogy.com|accessdate=September 21, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>

|title=East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, Genealogy|publisher=eastcarrollparishlouisianagenealogy.com|accessdate=October 7, 2019}}</ref>

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