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==Career==

==Career==

Ciaccio graduated in New Orleans at the age of fifteen from the [[Roman Catholic]] Brother Martin High School, then St. Aloysius High School. He received his undergraduate degree in 1947 from [[Tulane University]]. In 1950, he obtained his law degree from the Tulane School of Law. After law school, he served in the [[United States Air Force]] as an officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. His tour of duty included [[Morocco]]. After his military duties, he launched his law practice in New Orleans.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/obituary.aspx?n=philip-charles-ciaccio&pid=176486531&fhid=5630|title=Philip Charles Ciaccio|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=November 14, 2015}}</ref>

Ciaccio graduated in New Orleans at the age of fifteen from the [[Roman Catholic]] Brother Martin High School, then St. Aloysius High School. He received his undergraduate degree in 1947 from [[Tulane University]]. In 1950, he obtained his law degree from the Tulane School of Law. After law school, he served in the [[United States Air Force]] as an officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. His tour of duty included [[Morocco]]. After his military duties, he launched his law practice in New Orleans.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/obituary.aspx?n=philip-charles-ciaccio&pid=176486531&fhid=5630|title=Philip Charles Ciaccio|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=November 13, 2015|accessdate=December 28, 2020}}</ref>

Ciaccio lost his first bid for the legislature in which his mother, grandmother, and wife knocked on doors in the campaign.<ref name=obit/> He then prevailed in a [[special election]] in 1962 to succeed Daniel L. Kelly, who resigned after only two years in the legislature<ref name=house/> upon his own election to the New Orleans City Council. Four years later, Ciaccio succeeded Kelly on the city council.<ref name=ccouncil/> Known for his analytical mind,<ref name=obit/>  Judge Ciaccio served for sixteen years on the Fourth Circuit Court. Even after his retirement from the bench, he was an ad hoc judge, including service under then Chief Justice Catherine D. Kimball on the Louisiana Supreme Court.<ref name=obit/>

Ciaccio lost his first bid for the legislature in which his mother, grandmother, and wife knocked on doors in the campaign.<ref name=obit/> He then prevailed in a [[special election]] in 1962 to succeed Daniel L. Kelly, who resigned after only two years in the legislature<ref name=house/> upon his own election to the New Orleans City Council. Four years later, Ciaccio succeeded Kelly on the city council.<ref name=ccouncil/> Known for his analytical mind,<ref name=obit/>  Judge Ciaccio served for sixteen years on the Fourth Circuit Court. Even after his retirement from the bench, he was an ad hoc judge, including service under then Chief Justice Catherine D. Kimball on the Louisiana Supreme Court.<ref name=obit/>

Ciaccio was a founding member and the first board chairman of the Covenant House crisis center in New Orleans.  In 1952, he wed the former Mary Jane Bologna. The couple had ten children, nine of whom survived their father: Kathleen Giler (husband Paul), Charles (wife Judee). Philip, Jr. (Mary Beth), Maureen Anderson (Marc), Maria Schneider, Charleen Schreiner (George), Gregory, Michael (Nicole), and Suzanne Graffeo (Charlie), and twenty-nine grandchildren. Son Christopher Ciaccio died in 1990 at the age of twenty-seven while he was nearing completion of a college degree.<ref name=obit/>

Ciaccio was a founding member and the first board chairman of the Covenant House crisis center in New Orleans.  In 1952, he wed the former Mary Jane Bologna. The couple had ten children, nine of whom survived their father: Kathleen Giler (husband Paul), Charles (wife Judee). Philip, Jr. (Mary Beth), Maureen Anderson (Marc), Maria Schneider, Charleen Schreiner (George), Gregory, Michael (Nicole), and Suzanne Graffeo (Charlie), and twenty-nine grandchildren. Son Christopher Ciaccio died in 1990 at the age of twenty-seven while he was nearing completion of a college degree.<ref name=obit/>

He died in New Orleans at the age of eighty-eight.<ref name=obit/>

He died in New Orleans at the age of eighty-eight and is interred there at All Saints' Mausoleum.<ref name=obit/>

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