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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Albert Jules "Al" Tate, Jr.
| office=[[Judge]] of United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, based in [[New Orleans]]
| term_begin=October 5, 1979
| term_end=March 27, 1986
| president= [[Jimmy Carter]]
| preceded=New position
| succeeded=John Malcolm Duhé, Jr.
| office2=Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
| term_start2=1958
| term_end2 =1958
| term_start3 =1970
| term_end3=1979
| birth_date=September 23, 1920
| birth_place=Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, [[Louisiana]]
| death_date=March 27, 1986 (aged 67)
| death_place=New Orleans, Louisiana<br>
| resting_place=Evangeline Memorial Park in Ville Platte, Louisiana
| alma_mater=New York Military Academy<br>
[[Louisiana State University]]<br>
[[George Washington University]]<br>
[[Yale Law School]]
| spouse=Claire Jeanmard Tate (married 1949-1986, his death)
| children=Albert Tate, III<br>
Emma Adelaide Tate ___<br>
George J. Tate<br>
Michael F. Tate<br>
Charles E. Tate
| residence=(1) Ville Platte<br>Evangeline Parish
(2) New Orleans, Louisiana
| religion =[[Roman Catholic]]
| party =[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}
'''Albert Jules Tate, Jr.''', known as '''Al Tate''' (September 23, 1920 – March 27, 1986),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194027456/albert-jules-tate|title=Judge Albert Jules "Al" Tate|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref> was a long-serving [[Louisiana]] [[judge]] known for his leadership of the legal profession. A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Tate served on the Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal for the First District (1954–1960) and the Third District] (1960–1970) , the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in [[New Orleans]] (1979–1986), and the Louisiana Supreme Court (1958; 1970–1979), also based in New Orleans.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-t/|title=Tate, Albert|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biograph'' bases its article on Judge Tate on t''The Judges of the United States'' (2nd ed., 1983); ''Who’s Who in America,'' Vol. II (42d ed., 1982-1983); ''Almanac of the Federal Judiciary,'' Vol. II (1985).
==Background==
Tate was born in Opelousas in St. Landry Parish to Albert Tate, Sr. (1892-1973), who is interred in Ville Platte at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemetery.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemeter
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83871501/albert-jules-tate|title=Albert Jules Tate, Sr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref> and the former Adelaide Therry (1901-1939), a native of the [[Manhattan]] [[borough]] of [[New York City]], who died in Manhattan at the age of thirty-eight. Judge Tate was nineteen years of age at the time of his mother's passing. No information is available on Mrs. Tate's burial, but she is not at Sacred Heart in Ville Platte beside her husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194027948/adelaide-tate|title=Adelaide Therry Tate|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref>
In 1937, he graduated from New York Military Academy at Cornwall-On-Hudson, [[New York]]. He attended [[Yale University]] in [[New Haven]], [[Connecticut]] from 1937–1938. He also attended [[George Washington University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], at which he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1941. He received his [[LL.B.]] degree from [[Yale Law School]] in 1947; he attended Yale from 1941–1942 and 1946-1947. He also attended the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], from 1947–1948, when he obtained legal credentials in Louisiana.
<ref name=lahist/>
During [[World War II]], Tate was a special agent in the [[United States Army]] in the Far Eastern theater from 1942 to 1945. On April 23, 1949, active in the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Rotary International, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and the [[Knights of Columbus]], the [[Roman Catholic]] men's organization. He and his wife, the former Claire Jeanmard (1927-1995). The couple had a daughter and four sons: Albert Tate, III, Emma Adelaide Tate, George J. Tate, Michael F. Tate, and Charles E. Tate.<ref name=lahist/>
==Legal career==
Tate was admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1948 and practiced law in Ville Platte in Evangeline Parish from 1948 to 1954, when he became judge of the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal. Thereafter, he was presiding judge of Louisiana's Third Circuit for a decade;<ref name=lahist/> one of his law clerks was [[Bobby Culpepper]], later a long-term lawyer and Democratic politician in Jonesboro in Jackson Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/local/2015/08/17/jonesboro-attorney-bobby-culpepper-dies/31853081/|title=Jonesboro attorney Bobby Culpepper dies|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref> Tate became associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court for a brief tenure in 1958 and again for nearly the entire decade of the 1970s.
During his long legal career, Tate held many judicial committee chairmanships and took an active role in promoting legal and court reforms. He was vice-chairman of the Committee on Court Modernization in 1972-1974 and chairman of the Committee to Implement Standards of Criminal Justice from 1975-76. He was on the board of editors of ''Judges Journal'' from 1972-1975.<ref name=lahist/>
Tate was a member of both the Louisiana Bar Association and the American Judicature Society from 1948 to 1986. He chaired the Louisiana Judicial Commission from 1968 to 1970. He was a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1973, at which he served as the chairman of the style and drafting section. The constitution which Tate drafted was approved by voters in the spring of 1974. He was also a law school [[professor]] at LSU from 1967 to 1968, while he was simultaneously serving on the state Third Circuit Court.<ref name=lahist/>
On July 31, 1979, Tate was nominated by [[U. S. President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on October 4, 1979, and received his commissionof office on October 5, 1979, having served on that court for the last seven years of his life.
Tate wrote more than sixty legal articles, which were published in a variety of professional journals, as well as a legal textbook and a legal bibliography. He authored nearly fifty other articles on other topics. The Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers presents the "Albert Tate Award" in Tate's honor.<ref name=lahist/> One of Tate's colleagues on the Louisiana Supreme Court, [[Mack Barham]], wrote the article in the ''Louisiana Law Review.'' to honor his colleague's contributions to the law.<ref>[[Mack Barham]], "A Civilian for Our Times: Justice Albert Tate, Jr.," ''Louisiana Law Review'' Vol. 47 (May 1987).</ref>
Following Tate's death in New Orleans at the age of sixty-seven, U.S. President [[Ronald W. Reagan]] nominated [[Republican Party|Republican]] former [[Governor]] [[David C. Treen]] to fill Tate's vacancy on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Democratic Senate, along with then U.S. Senator [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]] killed Treen's nomination. The seat went instead to John Malcolm Duhé, Jr., an attorney in New Iberia.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{FJC Bio|2340}}
*http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFD71E3EF930A15754C0A961948260
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tate, Albert, Jr.}}
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[[Category:Judges]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Catholics]]
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
| name=Albert Jules "Al" Tate, Jr.
| office=[[Judge]] of United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, based in [[New Orleans]]
| term_begin=October 5, 1979
| term_end=March 27, 1986
| president= [[Jimmy Carter]]
| preceded=New position
| succeeded=John Malcolm Duhé, Jr.
| office2=Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
| term_start2=1958
| term_end2 =1958
| term_start3 =1970
| term_end3=1979
| birth_date=September 23, 1920
| birth_place=Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, [[Louisiana]]
| death_date=March 27, 1986 (aged 67)
| death_place=New Orleans, Louisiana<br>
| resting_place=Evangeline Memorial Park in Ville Platte, Louisiana
| alma_mater=New York Military Academy<br>
[[Louisiana State University]]<br>
[[George Washington University]]<br>
[[Yale Law School]]
| spouse=Claire Jeanmard Tate (married 1949-1986, his death)
| children=Albert Tate, III<br>
Emma Adelaide Tate ___<br>
George J. Tate<br>
Michael F. Tate<br>
Charles E. Tate
| residence=(1) Ville Platte<br>Evangeline Parish
(2) New Orleans, Louisiana
| religion =[[Roman Catholic]]
| party =[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}
'''Albert Jules Tate, Jr.''', known as '''Al Tate''' (September 23, 1920 – March 27, 1986),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194027456/albert-jules-tate|title=Judge Albert Jules "Al" Tate|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref> was a long-serving [[Louisiana]] [[judge]] known for his leadership of the legal profession. A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Tate served on the Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal for the First District (1954–1960) and the Third District] (1960–1970) , the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in [[New Orleans]] (1979–1986), and the Louisiana Supreme Court (1958; 1970–1979), also based in New Orleans.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-t/|title=Tate, Albert|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biograph'' bases its article on Judge Tate on t''The Judges of the United States'' (2nd ed., 1983); ''Who’s Who in America,'' Vol. II (42d ed., 1982-1983); ''Almanac of the Federal Judiciary,'' Vol. II (1985).
==Background==
Tate was born in Opelousas in St. Landry Parish to Albert Tate, Sr. (1892-1973), who is interred in Ville Platte at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemetery.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemeter
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83871501/albert-jules-tate|title=Albert Jules Tate, Sr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref> and the former Adelaide Therry (1901-1939), a native of the [[Manhattan]] [[borough]] of [[New York City]], who died in Manhattan at the age of thirty-eight. Judge Tate was nineteen years of age at the time of his mother's passing. No information is available on Mrs. Tate's burial, but she is not at Sacred Heart in Ville Platte beside her husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194027948/adelaide-tate|title=Adelaide Therry Tate|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 14, 2020}}</ref>
In 1937, he graduated from New York Military Academy at Cornwall-On-Hudson, [[New York]]. He attended [[Yale University]] in [[New Haven]], [[Connecticut]] from 1937–1938. He also attended [[George Washington University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], at which he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1941. He received his [[LL.B.]] degree from [[Yale Law School]] in 1947; he attended Yale from 1941–1942 and 1946-1947. He also attended the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], from 1947–1948, when he obtained legal credentials in Louisiana.
<ref name=lahist/>
During [[World War II]], Tate was a special agent in the [[United States Army]] in the Far Eastern theater from 1942 to 1945. On April 23, 1949, active in the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Rotary International, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and the [[Knights of Columbus]], the [[Roman Catholic]] men's organization. He and his wife, the former Claire Jeanmard (1927-1995). The couple had a daughter and four sons: Albert Tate, III, Emma Adelaide Tate, George J. Tate, Michael F. Tate, and Charles E. Tate.<ref name=lahist/>
==Legal career==
Tate was admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1948 and practiced law in Ville Platte in Evangeline Parish from 1948 to 1954, when he became judge of the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal. Thereafter, he was presiding judge of Louisiana's Third Circuit for a decade;<ref name=lahist/> one of his law clerks was [[Bobby Culpepper]], later a long-term lawyer and Democratic politician in Jonesboro in Jackson Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/local/2015/08/17/jonesboro-attorney-bobby-culpepper-dies/31853081/|title=Jonesboro attorney Bobby Culpepper dies|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=August 18, 2015}}</ref> Tate became associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court for a brief tenure in 1958 and again for nearly the entire decade of the 1970s.
During his long legal career, Tate held many judicial committee chairmanships and took an active role in promoting legal and court reforms. He was vice-chairman of the Committee on Court Modernization in 1972-1974 and chairman of the Committee to Implement Standards of Criminal Justice from 1975-76. He was on the board of editors of ''Judges Journal'' from 1972-1975.<ref name=lahist/>
Tate was a member of both the Louisiana Bar Association and the American Judicature Society from 1948 to 1986. He chaired the Louisiana Judicial Commission from 1968 to 1970. He was a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1973, at which he served as the chairman of the style and drafting section. The constitution which Tate drafted was approved by voters in the spring of 1974. He was also a law school [[professor]] at LSU from 1967 to 1968, while he was simultaneously serving on the state Third Circuit Court.<ref name=lahist/>
On July 31, 1979, Tate was nominated by [[U. S. President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on October 4, 1979, and received his commissionof office on October 5, 1979, having served on that court for the last seven years of his life.
Tate wrote more than sixty legal articles, which were published in a variety of professional journals, as well as a legal textbook and a legal bibliography. He authored nearly fifty other articles on other topics. The Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers presents the "Albert Tate Award" in Tate's honor.<ref name=lahist/> One of Tate's colleagues on the Louisiana Supreme Court, [[Mack Barham]], wrote the article in the ''Louisiana Law Review.'' to honor his colleague's contributions to the law.<ref>[[Mack Barham]], "A Civilian for Our Times: Justice Albert Tate, Jr.," ''Louisiana Law Review'' Vol. 47 (May 1987).</ref>
Following Tate's death in New Orleans at the age of sixty-seven, U.S. President [[Ronald W. Reagan]] nominated [[Republican Party|Republican]] former [[Governor]] [[David C. Treen]] to fill Tate's vacancy on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Democratic Senate, along with then U.S. Senator [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]] killed Treen's nomination. The seat went instead to John Malcolm Duhé, Jr., an attorney in New Iberia.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{FJC Bio|2340}}
*http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFD71E3EF930A15754C0A961948260
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tate, Albert, Jr.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Judges]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Catholics]]
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:United States Army]]