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==Last election victory==
==Last election victory==
On October 23, 1983, Scott was elected to his last term in the legislature. Still a Democrat, he defeated two intra-party opponents in the nonpartisan blanket primary. Scott polled 6,458 of the 11,076 votes cast in the race, or 58.3 percent. An [[African-American]] candidate, the Reverend Errol Dorsey, drew 1,780 votes (16.1 percent), and the attorney Christopher J. Roy, Sr., a law partner of the legendary Alexandrian Camille Francis Gravel, Jr., and father of former Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy and former state Representative Chris Roy, Jr., polled 2,838 votes (25.6 percent).[7]
On October 23, 1983, Scott was elected to his last term in the legislature. Still a Democrat, he defeated two intra-party opponents in the nonpartisan blanket primary. Scott polled 6,458 of the 11,076 votes cast in the race, or 58.3 percent. An [[African-American]] candidate, the Reverend Errol Dorsey, drew 1,780 votes (16.1 percent), and the attorney Christopher J. Roy, Sr., a law partner of the legendary Alexandrian [[Camille Gravel|Camille Francis Gravel, Jr.]], and father of former Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy and former state Representative Chris Roy, Jr., polled 2,838 votes (25.6 percent).[7]
In 1980, Judge Nauman Scott ordered cross-parish busing, school consolidations, some school closures, and the reassignment of principals to increase the level of [[Segregation|desegregation]] in Rapides Parish schools, contrary to the wishes of many citizens in the outlying Wards 10 and 11, including the area served by Buckeye High School. Ninth Judicial District Court Judge [[Richard E. "Dick" Lee]] of Pineville unsuccessfully tried to stem Scott's order.[8]
In 1980, Judge Nauman Scott ordered cross-parish busing, school consolidations, some school closures, and the reassignment of principals to increase the level of [[Segregation|desegregation]] in Rapides Parish schools, contrary to the wishes of many citizens in the outlying Wards 10 and 11, including the area served by Buckeye High School. Ninth Judicial District Court Judge [[Richard E. "Dick" Lee]] of Pineville unsuccessfully tried to stem Scott's order.[8]