Block, Upload, Automoderated users, edit, move, protect, rollback
57,799
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 26:
Line 26: − +
no edit summary
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>
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 [[Episcopalian]] 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 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 [[Episcopalian]] 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]], which nominated the [[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=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=September 8, 2010}}</ref>
Delony was a delegate to the 1956 [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[Chicago]], which nominated the [[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=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=September 8, 2010}}</ref>