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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
| name=William Jennings "Bill" Cleveland, Sr.
| name=William Jennings<br> "Bill" Cleveland, Sr.
| office= [[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for Acadia Parish
| office= [[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for Acadia Parish
|term_start=1944
|term_start=1944
In 1959, Cleveland was acting governor for a day for the observance in Baton Rouge by the Men's Goodwill Tour of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Marksville in Avoyelles Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/LHP/id/8786|title=Acting Louisiaan Governor W. J. "Bill" Cleveland|publisher=llouisdl.louislibraries.org|accessdate=March 7, 2015}}</ref>
In 1959, Cleveland was acting governor for a day for the observance in Baton Rouge by the Men's Goodwill Tour of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Marksville in Avoyelles Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/LHP/id/8786|title=Acting Louisiaan Governor W. J. "Bill" Cleveland|publisher=llouisdl.louislibraries.org|accessdate=March 7, 2015}}</ref>
Cleveland was a delegate to the 1952 [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[Chicago]], which assembled the [[Adlai Stevenson|Stevenson]]-[[John Sparkman|Sparkman]] ticket, which won the ten [[electoral vote]]s of Louisiana that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html|title=Cleveland, William J.|publisher=[[The Political Graveyard]]|accessdate=March 6, 2015}}</ref> He was subsequently an alternate delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Conventio], which also met in Chicago amid rioting and looting to nominate the [[Hubert Humphrey|Humphrey]]-Edmund Muskie ticket. However, the Louisiana electoral votes in 1968 went to [[George Wallace]] of [[Alabama]] on the American Independent Party ticket.
Cleveland was a delegate to the 1952 [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[Chicago]], which assembled the [[Adlai Stevenson|Stevenson]]-[[John Sparkman|Sparkman]] ticket, which won the ten [[electoral vote]]s of Louisiana that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html|title=Cleveland, William J.|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=March 6, 2015}}</ref> He was subsequently an alternate delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Conventio], which also met in Chicago amid rioting and looting to nominate the [[Hubert Humphrey|Humphrey]]-Edmund Muskie ticket. However, the Louisiana electoral votes in 1968 went to [[George Wallace]] of [[Alabama]] on the American Independent Party ticket.
==Personal life==
==Personal life==