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Ware's grandfather, Edwin O. Ware, Sr., a [[clergy]]man originally from [[Kentucky]], was a founder and first president of the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Louisiana College]] in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site40.php|title=Ware, Edwin O.|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' by the Louisiana Historical Association|date=1988|page=825|accessdate=May 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120054027/http://www.lahistory.org/site40.php#|archive-date=2010-11-20|dead-url=yes|df=}}</ref> from which Ware obtained his undergraduate degree in 1948. Ware, however, was a [[Presbyterian]]<ref name=whoswho/> [[Sunday school]] teacher.<ref name=deathofware/> Ware's father, Edwin, Jr., was born in Alexandria in 1897; his mother, the former Mary Louella Pierce (1902-1992), was from Calcasieu Parish, which includes [[Lake Charles]]. The couple married in 1922 and resided in Alexandria.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_r_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=Louella&gsln=Ware&mswpn__ftp=Alexandria%2C%20Louisiana&MSAV=1&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=upc|title=Louella Ware|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref>​

Ware's grandfather, Edwin O. Ware, Sr., a [[clergy]]man originally from [[Kentucky]], was a founder and first president of the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Louisiana College]] in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site40.php|title=Ware, Edwin O.|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' by the Louisiana Historical Association|date=1988|page=825|accessdate=May 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120054027/http://www.lahistory.org/site40.php#|archive-date=2010-11-20|dead-url=yes|df=}}</ref> from which Ware obtained his undergraduate degree in 1948. Ware, however, was a [[Presbyterian]]<ref name=whoswho/> [[Sunday school]] teacher.<ref name=deathofware/> Ware's father, Edwin, Jr., was born in Alexandria in 1897; his mother, the former Mary Louella Pierce (1902-1992), was from Calcasieu Parish, which includes [[Lake Charles]]. The couple married in 1922 and resided in Alexandria.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_r_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=Louella&gsln=Ware&mswpn__ftp=Alexandria%2C%20Louisiana&MSAV=1&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=upc|title=Louella Ware|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref>​

 

Ware was the third of five children. His only brother, William Eaton "Bill" Ware (1930-2013) of Haughton in Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana, served in the [[United States Air Force]] and was stationed in the Pacific Proving Grounds during the nuclear testing on Bikini Island. He later worked for [[General Motors]] in [[Shreveport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=william-eaton-ware-bill&pid=164450402&fhid=10225#sthash.dlXZ2QGV.dpuf|title=William Eaton "Bill" Ware|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=April 26, 2013|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> Ware's three sisters, all deceased, were Dorothy Ruth Brown (1924-1966), who died at the age of forty-two in [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=ms_r_f-2_s&gsfn=Dorothy+Ruth&gsln=Ware&msbdy=&msbpn__ftp=Alexandria%2C+Louisiana%2C+USA&msddy=1966&msdpn__ftp=Fort+Worth%2C+Texas%2C+USA&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=000&cp=0|title=Dorothy Ruth Ware|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> Jewel Ware Dean (1925-2011), an English teacher in Livingston Parish  near Baton Rouge,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Jewell-Dean&lc=2672&pid=153480492&mid=4801845|title=Jewell Dean|publisher=obits.dignitymemorial.com|date=September 5, 2011|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> and Mary Louella Ware Dvorak (1933-2009) of Blanchard in McClain County, [[Oklahoma]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Dvorak&GSfn=Mary&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GSsr=121&GRid=34695611&df=all&|title=Mary Louella Ware Dvorak|publisher=''The Daily Oklahoman''|location=[[Oklahoma City]], [[Oklahoma]]|date=March 11, 2009|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref>​

Ware was the third of five children. His only brother, William Eaton "Bill" Ware (1930-2013) of Haughton in Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana, served in the [[United States Air Force]] and was stationed in the Pacific Proving Grounds during the nuclear testing on Bikini Island. He later worked for [[General Motors]] in [[Shreveport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=william-eaton-ware-bill&pid=164450402&fhid=10225#sthash.dlXZ2QGV.dpuf|title=William Eaton "Bill" Ware|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=April 26, 2013|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> Ware's three sisters, all deceased, were Dorothy Ruth Brown (1924-1966), who died at the age of forty-two in [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=ms_r_f-2_s&gsfn=Dorothy+Ruth&gsln=Ware&msbdy=&msbpn__ftp=Alexandria%2C+Louisiana%2C+USA&msddy=1966&msdpn__ftp=Fort+Worth%2C+Texas%2C+USA&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=000&cp=0|title=Dorothy Ruth Ware|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> Jewel Ware Dean (1925-2011), an English teacher in Livingston Parish  near Baton Rouge,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Jewell-Dean&lc=2672&pid=153480492&mid=4801845|title=Jewell Dean|publisher=obits.dignitymemorial.com|date=September 5, 2011|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> and Mary Louella Ware Dvorak (1933-2009) of Blanchard in McClain County, [[Oklahoma]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Dvorak&GSfn=Mary&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GSsr=121&GRid=34695611&df=all&|title=Mary Louella Ware Dvorak|publisher=''The Daily Oklahoman''|location=[[Oklahoma City]], [[Oklahoma]]|date=March 11, 2009|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref>​

==Legal and political life==

==Legal and political life==

 

Ware obtained his legal credentials in 1951 from the LSU Center in Baton Rouge. He was affiliated with Lambda Chi Alpha.<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Edwin O. Ware, III", ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007-2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2007), pp. 674-675.</ref> His law school classmates included other later Alexandria political figures [[U.S. Representative]] [[Gillis Long]] of Louisiana's since disbanded 8th congressional district; 9th Judicial District Judge [[Guy Humphries]], state Representative Lloyd George Teekell (1922-1996),<ref name=yearbook/> and Ware's law partner and assistant DA, [[Gus Voltz|Gus Voltz, Jr.]].<ref name=voltz>{{cite web|url=http://archive.thetowntalk.com/article/20080829/OBITUARIES/80828035/Gus-Voltz-Jr-|title=Gus Voltz, Jr.|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=August 28, 2008|accessdate=May 26, 2015; no longer on-line}}</ref> Also in the class were later state Representatives George Burnham Holstead (1924-2002) of [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] and Risley C. Triche (1927-2012) of Napoleonville, in Assumption Parish.<ref name=yearbook>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/lsu/1951/Page_127.html|title=Louisiana State University ''Gumbo'' yearbook, 1951|publisher=E-yearbook.com|accessdate=July 3, 2013}}</ref>

Ware obtained his legal credentials in 1951 from the LSU Center in Baton Rouge. He was affiliated with Lambda Chi Alpha.<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Edwin O. Ware, III", ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007-2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2007), pp. 674-675.</ref> His law school classmates included other later Alexandria political figures [[U.S. Representative]] [[Gillis Long]] of Louisiana's since disbanded 8th congressional district; 9th Judicial District Judge [[Guy Humphries]], state Representative Lloyd George Teekell (1922-1996),<ref name=yearbook/> and Ware's law partner and assistant DA, [[Gus Voltz|Gus Voltz, Jr.]].<ref name=voltz>{{cite web|url=http://archive.thetowntalk.com/article/20080829/OBITUARIES/80828035/Gus-Voltz-Jr-|title=Gus Voltz, Jr.|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=August 28, 2008|accessdate=May 26, 2015; no longer on-line}}</ref> Also in the class were later state Representatives George Burnham Holstead (1924-2002) of [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] and Risley C. Triche (1927-2012) of Napoleonville, in Assumption Parish.<ref name=yearbook>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/lsu/1951/Page_127.html|title=Louisiana State University ''Gumbo'' yearbook, 1951|publisher=E-yearbook.com|accessdate=July 3, 2013}}</ref>

 

Ware and Voltz established their long-term practice, Voltz and Ware, in downtown Alexandria.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.martindale.com/Edwin-O-Ware-III/587820-lawyer.htm|title=Edwin O. Ware, III|publisher=martindale.com|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> From 1955 to 1957, he was an assistant district attorney for Rapides Parish. He was elected three times as DA in 1966, 1972, and 1978.<ref name=whoswho/> Voltz was his first assistant DA during all of those years. In his capacity as DA, Ware was frequently involved in high-profile legal cases. In 1969, he was the [[defendant]] in ''Snyder v. Ware, et al.'', in which later Alexandria [[Mayor]] [[John K. Snyder]] sued regarding a criminal [[defamation]] charge brought against him.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://leagle.com/decision/1970649314FSupp335_1584.xml/SNYDER%20v.%20WARE|title=John K. Snyder v. Edwin O. Ware, III|publisher=Leagle.com|date=October 13, 1970|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> In the spring of 1977, Ware felt compelled to deny a charge by Mayor Snyder, who was then seeking reelection in his failed campaign against Carroll Edwin Lanier, that Ware was for all practical purposes "running" the city police department and undercutting the mayor's position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20120418/OPINION/204180319/From-past|title=From the Past|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=April 18, 1977|accessdate=May 26, 2015; no longer on-line.}}</ref><ref name=deathofware/>​

Ware and Voltz established their long-term practice, Voltz and Ware, in downtown Alexandria.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.martindale.com/Edwin-O-Ware-III/587820-lawyer.htm|title=Edwin O. Ware, III|publisher=martindale.com|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> From 1955 to 1957, he was an assistant district attorney for Rapides Parish. He was elected three times as DA in 1966, 1972, and 1978.<ref name=whoswho/> Voltz was his first assistant DA during all of those years. In his capacity as DA, Ware was frequently involved in high-profile legal cases. In 1969, he was the [[defendant]] in ''Snyder v. Ware, et al.'', in which later Alexandria [[Mayor]] [[John K. Snyder]] sued regarding a criminal [[defamation]] charge brought against him.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://leagle.com/decision/1970649314FSupp335_1584.xml/SNYDER%20v.%20WARE|title=John K. Snyder v. Edwin O. Ware, III|publisher=Leagle.com|date=October 13, 1970|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> In the spring of 1977, Ware felt compelled to deny a charge by Mayor Snyder, who was then seeking reelection in his failed campaign against Carroll Edwin Lanier, that Ware was for all practical purposes "running" the city police department and undercutting the mayor's position.<ref name=deathofware/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20120418/OPINION/204180319/From-past|title=From the Past|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=April 18, 1977|accessdate=May 26, 2015; no longer on-line.}}</ref>​

In 1970, Ware as DA defended the Rapides Parish School Board from a challenge that public schools were still largely segregated despite federal court orders to the contrary. The suit noted that half of the schools in Wards 1 and 8 were still predominantly [[African-American]]. The plaintiffs sought a greater degree of racial integration than then required by federal courts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19701555423F2d1132_11256.xml/VALLEY%20v.%20RAPIDES%20PARISH%20SCHOOL%20BOARD|title=Virgie Lee Valley, et al. v. Rapides Parish School Board, et al.|date=March 6, 1970|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> The suit continued to be litigated after Ware left the DA's office. In 2006, [[Judge]] Dee D. Drell of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana declared Rapides schools racially unitary and closed the long-term litigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.thetowntalk.com/article/20060928/NEWS01/60928010/School-milestone-called-great-day-Rapides-Parish-|title=School milestone called "great day" for Rapides Parish|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=September 28, 2006|author=Mandy M. Goodnight|accessdate=May 26, 2015; no longer on-line.}}</ref>​

In 1970, Ware as DA defended the Rapides Parish School Board from a challenge that public schools were still largely segregated despite federal court orders to the contrary. The suit noted that half of the schools in Wards 1 and 8 were still predominantly [[African-American]]. The plaintiffs sought a greater degree of racial integration than then required by federal courts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19701555423F2d1132_11256.xml/VALLEY%20v.%20RAPIDES%20PARISH%20SCHOOL%20BOARD|title=Virgie Lee Valley, et al. v. Rapides Parish School Board, et al.|date=March 6, 1970|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=May 26, 2015}}</ref> The suit continued to be litigated after Ware left the DA's office. In 2006, [[Judge]] Dee D. Drell of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana declared Rapides schools racially unitary and closed the long-term litigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.thetowntalk.com/article/20060928/NEWS01/60928010/School-milestone-called-great-day-Rapides-Parish-|title=School milestone called "great day" for Rapides Parish|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=September 28, 2006|author=Mandy M. Goodnight|accessdate=May 26, 2015; no longer on-line.}}</ref>​

In the early 1970s, during a showing of the film, ''The Last Picture Show'', Ware and his wife, Barbara, walked out of the theater during a nude bathing scene. The DA received many telephone calls and letters from people offended by the film. The theater sued successfully to return the film to the screen. Ware also tried unsuccessfully to stop sexually-explicit [[magazine]]s, including ''Playboy,'' from being sold in Rapides Parish. Ware never wavered in the positions he took. In a 2001 interview, he said, "I think our failure [to stop pornography] is reflected in the life-style of the country today. Community standards have changed since then and none of them for the better."<ref name=deathofware/>​

In the early 1970s, during a showing of the film, ''The Last Picture Show'', Ware and his wife, Barbara, walked out of the theater during a nude bathing scene. The DA received many telephone calls and letters from people offended by the film. The theater sued successfully to return the film to the screen. Ware also tried unsuccessfully to stop sexually-explicit [[magazine]]s, including ''Playboy,'' from being sold in Rapides Parish. Ware never wavered in the positions he took. In a 2001 interview, he said, "I think our failure [to stop pornography] is reflected in the life-style of the country today. Community standards have changed since then and none of them for the better."<ref name=deathofware/>​

 

In his 1978 race, Ware defeated a challenge waged by his fellow [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], [[Arnold Jack Rosenthal]], a lawyer-businessman who was the last-serving of the finance and utilities commissioners for the City of Alexandria and a persistent critic of Mayor Snyder.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cenlanews.com/2010/12/arnold-jack-rosenthal-passes-away.html|title=Arnold Jack Rosenthal Passes Away|author=Steve Coco|publisher=cenlanews.com|accessdate=January 7, 2011}}</ref> Ware did not seek a fourth term in 1984 but returned full-time to Voltz and Ware.

In his 1978 race, Ware defeated a challenge waged by his fellow [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], [[Arnold Jack Rosenthal]], a lawyer-businessman who was the last-serving of the finance and utilities commissioners for the City of Alexandria and a persistent critic of Mayor Snyder.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cenlanews.com/2010/12/arnold-jack-rosenthal-passes-away.html|title=Arnold Jack Rosenthal Passes Away|author=Steve Coco|publisher=cenlanews.com|accessdate=January 7, 2011}}</ref> Ware did not seek a fourth term in 1984 but returned full-time to Voltz and Ware.

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