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|name= Jesse Homer Bankston, Sr.
|name= Jesse Homer Bankston, Sr.
|office=Member, Secretary, and Chairman of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (for the<br> 6th congressional district
|office=Member, Secretary, and Chairman of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (for the<br> 6th congressional district
In the 1979 [[Governor|gubernatorial]] general election campaign, Bankston obtained a [[censure]] resolution against two failed Democratic candidates [[E. L. "Bubba" Henry]] and Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton, Jr., both of whom openly endorsed the successful Republican candidate, former Democrat David Treen. Bankston warned Mouton, then an outgoing state senator from [[Lafayette]] and one generally considered to have been a [[liberal]] lawmaker, that "if he thinks he is going to get all those people who voted for him in the primary to vote for a Republican, I think he's looking through rose-colored glasses." Bankston questioned whether Treen had agreed to assist in the retirement of Mouton's campaign debts.<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' November 14, 1979, p. 1.</ref> Bankston blamed confusion over the certification of Democratic candidate [[Louis Lambert]] in part to the competition between the [[Associated Press]] and [[United Press International]] in attempting to be the first to report the ballot tabulations. The Democratic committee did not censure two other Democratic gubernatorial candidates who backed Treen, outgoing Secretary of State Paul Jude Hardy, later the first Republican to serve as lieutenant governor of Louisiana since [[Reconstruction]] and the then outgoing Lieutenant Governor [[Jimmy Fitzmorris]] because their support for Treen came after the committee had met.
In the 1979 [[Governor|gubernatorial]] general election campaign, Bankston obtained a [[censure]] resolution against two failed Democratic candidates [[E. L. "Bubba" Henry]] and Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton, Jr., both of whom openly endorsed the successful Republican candidate, former Democrat David Treen. Bankston warned Mouton, then an outgoing state senator from [[Lafayette]] and one generally considered to have been a [[liberal]] lawmaker, that "if he thinks he is going to get all those people who voted for him in the primary to vote for a Republican, I think he's looking through rose-colored glasses." Bankston questioned whether Treen had agreed to assist in the retirement of Mouton's campaign debts.<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' November 14, 1979, p. 1.</ref> Bankston blamed confusion over the certification of Democratic candidate [[Louis Lambert]] in part to the competition between the [[Associated Press]] and [[United Press International]] in attempting to be the first to report the ballot tabulations. The Democratic committee did not censure two other Democratic gubernatorial candidates who backed Treen, outgoing Secretary of State Paul Jude Hardy, later the first Republican to serve as lieutenant governor of Louisiana since [[Reconstruction]] and the then outgoing Lieutenant Governor [[Jimmy Fitzmorris]] because their support for Treen came after the committee had met.
In 1982, Bankston was unseated, 56 to 44 percent, from the BESE board by his fellow Democrat, former State Representative Lillian Walker Walker (1923-2016), also of Baton Rouge.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 2, 1982.</ref>
In 1982, Bankston was unseated, 56 to 44 percent, from the BESE board by his fellow Democrat, former State Representative Lillian Walker Walker (1923-2016), also of Baton Rouge.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 2, 1982.</ref>
==Bankston on the Democratic future==
In a printed interview in 1980, Bankston said that the Louisiana Democratic Party apparatus was in excellent condition despite having lost the governorship for the first time since 1872:
In a printed interview in 1980, Bankston said that the Louisiana Democratic Party apparatus was in excellent condition despite having lost the governorship for the first time since 1872:
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