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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Otto Ernest Passman
|name=Otto Ernest Passman
|image=Otto Passman.jpg
|image=Otto Passman 1973.jpg
|office=[[U.S. Representative]] for [[Louisiana]]'s<br>5th Congressional District
|office=[[U.S. Representative]] for [[Louisiana]]'s<br>5th Congressional District
|term_start=January 3, 1947
|term_start=January 3, 1947
==Background==
==Background==
Passman was the son of sharecroppers from Franklinton, the seat of government for Washington Parish in southeastern Louisiana. Washington Parish was the home of another political giant in Louisiana politics, state Senator [[B. B. "Sixty" Rayburn]] of Bogalusa. Current Democratic [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]] is another politician from Washington Parish. Passman dropped out of school to work odd jobs but enrolled in night school thereafter to complete his high school education. He later studied at Soule Business College in Bogalusa. "He was a smart man, a self-educated man," said Paul Fink, Passman's [[attorney]] for more than four decades.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Otto Passman, Jerry Huckaby, and Frank Spooner: The Louisiana Fifth Congressional District Election of 1976," ''Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association'', LIV No. 3 (Summer 2013), p. 333; hereinafter cited as ''Louisiana History.''</ref>
Passman was the son of sharecroppers from Franklinton, the seat of government for Washington Parish in southeastern Louisiana. Washington Parish was the home of another political giant in Louisiana politics, state Senator [[B. B. "Sixty" Rayburn]] of Bogalusa. Current Democratic [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]] is another politician from Washington Parish. Passman dropped out of school to work odd jobs but enrolled in night school thereafter to complete his high school education. He later studied at Soule Business College in Bogalusa. "He was a smart man, a self-educated man," said Paul Fink, Passman's [[attorney]] for more than four decades.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Otto Passman, Jerry Huckaby, and Frank Spooner: The Louisiana Fifth Congressional District Election of 1976," ''Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association'', LIV No. 3 (Summer 2013), p. 333; hereinafter cited as ''Louisiana History.''</ref>
In 1952, at the [[Chicago]] convention, Passman supported U.S. Senator Richard Brevard Russell (1897-1971) of [[Georgia]], who was an unsuccessful conservative contender for the nomination. Passman was a delegate to the 1956 convention, also held in Chicago, where delegates re-nominated former Governor [[Adlai Stevenson]] of [[Illinois]] to once again to challenge Republican nominee [[Dwight Eisenhower]]. That fall Stevenson became the first Democratic presidential nominee since [[Reconstruction]] to lose in Louisiana.<ref>''Louisiana History,'' p. 334.</ref>
In 1952, at the [[Chicago]] convention, Passman supported U.S. Senator Richard Brevard Russell (1897-1971) of [[Georgia]], who was an unsuccessful conservative contender for the nomination. Passman was a delegate to the 1956 convention, also held in Chicago, where delegates re-nominated former Governor [[Adlai Stevenson]] of [[Illinois]] to once again to challenge Republican nominee [[Dwight Eisenhower]]. That fall Stevenson became the first Democratic presidential nominee since [[Reconstruction]] to lose in Louisiana.<ref>''Louisiana History,'' p. 334.</ref>
==Thirty years in Congress==
==Thirty years in Congress==
[[File:Otto Passman.jpg|thumb|right|140px]]
Passman was first elected to the 80th United States Congress in 1946, when he unseated two-term incumbent Charles Edgar McKenzie (1896-1956) in the Democratic primary. In the nationally Republican year, numerous returning veterans, including [[John F. Kennedy]] in [[Massachusetts]] and [[Richard M. Nixon]] in [[California]], were chosen for congressional duty. Passman held his 5th congressional district seat with minimal or no opposition for thirty years.
Passman was first elected to the 80th United States Congress in 1946, when he unseated two-term incumbent Charles Edgar McKenzie (1896-1956) in the Democratic primary. In the nationally Republican year, numerous returning veterans, including [[John F. Kennedy]] in [[Massachusetts]] and [[Richard M. Nixon]] in [[California]], were chosen for congressional duty. Passman held his 5th congressional district seat with minimal or no opposition for thirty years.