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On April 19, 1960, Courtney was the [[Governor|gubernatorial]] nominee of the Louisiana States Rights Party. He received 12,515 votes (less than 2.5 percent) of the ballots cast. The winner was Democratic former Governor [[Jimmie Davis]], elected to his second nonconsecutive term. Also in that general election was a conservative Republican nominee, [[Francis Grevemberg]], a former Democrat and a former superintendent of the Louisiana State Police who had conducted raids against organized crime in the 1950s.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, April 19, 1960.</ref>
On April 19, 1960, Courtney was the [[Governor|gubernatorial]] nominee of the Louisiana States Rights Party. He received 12,515 votes (less than 2.5 percent) of the ballots cast. The winner was Democratic former Governor [[Jimmie Davis]], elected to his second nonconsecutive term. Also in that general election was a conservative Republican nominee, [[Francis Grevemberg]], a former Democrat and a former superintendent of the Louisiana State Police who had conducted raids against organized crime in the 1950s.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, April 19, 1960.</ref>
Kent Courtney's younger brother, Cy David Francis Courtney (1924-1995), a New Orleans lawyer, had been an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor on December 5, 1959, on a segregationist intra-party ticket with gubernatorial hopeful [[William Rainach]], a state senator from Claiborne Parish. Cy Courtney lost out to fellow Democrat Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock (1915-1987), a conservative from Franklin in St. Mary Parish.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, December 5, 1959.</ref> As a member of a third party, Kent Courtney could not vote for his brother in the then closed Democratic primary for lieutenant governor in 1959 but would have been able to have done so under the nonpartisan blanket primary, which began on November 1, 1975.
Kent Courtney's younger brother, Cy David Francis Courtney (1924-1995), a New Orleans lawyer, had been an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor on December 5, 1959, on a segregationist intra-party ticket with gubernatorial hopeful [[William Rainach]], a state senator from Claiborne Parish. Cy Courtney lost out to fellow Democrat Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock (1915-1987), a conservative from Franklin in St. Mary Parish.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, December 5, 1959.</ref> As a member of a third party, Kent Courtney could not vote for his brother in the then closed Democratic primary for lieutenant governor in 1959 but would have been able to have done so under the nonpartisan blanket primary, which began on November 1, 1975.