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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Joseph Carnahan LeSage, Jr.
| image=Joe LeSage of LA.jpg
| caption=Lesage in undated photo
| office= [[Louisiana]] State Senato<br>r for Caddo Parish (at-large)
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| term_start=1968
| term_end= 1972
| preceded=At-large:<br>
[[Jackson B. Davis]]<br>
[[B. H. "Johnny" Rogers]]
| succeeded=Jackson Beauregard Davis]]<br>
(District 37)<br>
[[Cecil K. Carter, Jr.]]<br>
(District 38)<br>
[[Don Williamson]]<br>
(District 39)
| birth_date=December 12, 1928
| birth_place=Homer, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
| death_date=September 22, 2015 (aged 86)
| death_place=[[Shreveport]], Louisiana
| resting_place=Body donated to medical science
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| occupation=[[Attorney]]
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana State University]]<br>
LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center
| spouse=(1) Lorraine Yearwood LeSage ([[divorce]]d)<br>
(2) Dolores F. Word LeSage
| children=Sherry Anne LeSage (1950–2010)<br>
Susan Virginia "Susie" LeSage<br>
Step-daughters:<br>
Deborah Word Jackson<br>
Sondra Word Jordan<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Joseph, Sr., and Avalyn Taylor LeSage
|branch=[[United States Army]] Ordnance Corps<br>
[[Judge Advocate General's Corps]]
(stateside service)
|serviceyears=1952-1954
}}
'''Joseph Carnahan LeSage, Jr.''', known as '''Joe LeSage''' (December 12, 1928 – September 22, 2015),<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=joe-c-lesage&pid=175914028&fhid=6593|title=Joe C. LeSage, Jr., obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=September 24, 2015|accessdate=September 27, 2015}}</ref> was an [[attorney]] in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], who served as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state senator for a single term from 1968 to 1972.<ref>SENATE DIRECTORY 1880-Present (la.gov), Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2024, accessed April 20, 2021}}</ref>
==Background==
LeSage was born to Joseph LeSage, Sr. (1895–1964), and the former Avalyn Taylor (1907–1991). The senior LeSages are interred at Arlington Cemetery in Homer in [Claiborne Parish. He played [[football]]l]] at Homer High School and then attended [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], where he was the [[quarterback]] of the LSU Tigers in 1948.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lsusports.net/src/data/lsu/assets/docs/fb/pdf/05fbguide177-194.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=5200|title=Lettermen at LSU|publisher=lsusports.net|accessdate=May 4, 2010}}</ref> In 1949, LeSage graduated from LSU, where he was affiliated with Omicron Delta Kappa and Gamma Eta Gamma. In 1952, he obtained his law degree from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at LSU and was admitted to the Louisiana bar.<ref name=bio/>Lesage served from 1952 to 1954 in the [[United States Army]] Ordnance Corps and the [[Judge Advocate General's Corps]] during the later portion of the [[Korean War]]. He was stationed stateside at Fort Sill, [[Oklahoma]], and the [[The Pentagon]] in [[Washington, D.C.]].<ref name=obit/>
==Political and legal career==
In 1956, at the age of only twenty-seven, LeSage was appointed to the LSU Board of Supervisors, the governing board of the university. He left the board during his state Senate tenure but returned to serve again much later from 1992 to 1998. He maintained a lifelong interest in matters relating to his ''[[alma mater]]''.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.blpllaw.com/Firm%20Info/Lawyers/608130.aspx|title=Joseph C. LeSage, Jr.|publisher=blpllaw.com|accessdate=April 30, 2010}}</ref>
LeSage was elected to the state Senate in the [[general election]] held on February 6, 1968. LeSage and two other Democrats, [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]] (the future [[U.S. Senator]]), and incumbent state Senator [[Jackson B. Davis]], defeated the sole [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate, [[Tom Stagg]], in an at-large race.<ref>State of Louisiana, Secretary of State, Louisiana general election returns, February 6, 1968.</ref> The Senate seats thereafter were converted to single-member districts. All four state Senate candidates were Shreveport lawyers. Stagg, who died three months before LeSage, was appointed in 1974 by [[U.S. President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]] to the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in Shreveport.
LeSage practiced in the firm of Booth, Lockard, Politz, and LeSage at 920 Pierremont Road in Shreveport, Booth, Lockard, Jack, Pleasant and LeSage; the "Jack" in the name was the late [[Whitfield Jack]]. He specializes in personal injury, white collar criminal defense and estate law. LeSage was affiliated with the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.<ref name=bio/>
==Personal life==
LeSage was twice married. He was [[divorce]]d from the former Lorraine Yearwood (1928-2020), the daughter of Boyd Yearwood (1907–1976) and Olwen M. Yearwood (1907–2003), later of [[Bossier City]]. The couple had two daughters, Susan Virginia "Susie" LeSage and Sherry Anne LeSage (1950–2010), a prominent Shreveport [[real estate]] agent. Sherry LeSage, her mother Lorraine LeSage, and maternal grandmother Olwen Yearwood, formed Yearwood-LeSage Realtors.<ref>Lorraine LeSage Obituary (1928 - 2020) - Shreveport, LA - Shreveport Times (legacy.com, accessed April 20, 2021.</ref>The trio was the only three-generations of women engaged in real estate in Louisiana at the time. In 1987, Yearwood-LeSage merged with Towery Real Estate. Sherry LeSage was named Shreveport "Realtor of the Year" in 1990 and was appointed to a term on the Louisiana State Real Estate Commission. She died days before her sixtieth birthday, having contracted an auto-immune disease, scleroderma, which attacks the [[kidney]]s and requires regular [[dialysis]].<ref name=salobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=sherry-anne-lesage&pid=142330381|title=Sherry Anne LeSage obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=April 29, 2010|accessdate=April 30, 2010}}</ref>
LeSage had two step-daughters from his second wife, the former Dolores F. Word, whom he married c. 1980. Deborah Word "Debbie" Jackson is married to Patrick Jackson, and Sondra Word Jordan, who is the wife of Damon Jordon. LeSage has two step-grandchildren, Victoria Laiche Jordan and Zackary Joseph Jordan.<ref name=obit/>
LeSage was a long-term member of the Broadmoor [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church of Shreveport. He donated his body to medical science.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:LeSage, Joe}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Football]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
| name=Joseph Carnahan LeSage, Jr.
| image=Joe LeSage of LA.jpg
| caption=Lesage in undated photo
| office= [[Louisiana]] State Senato<br>r for Caddo Parish (at-large)
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| term_start=1968
| term_end= 1972
| preceded=At-large:<br>
[[Jackson B. Davis]]<br>
[[B. H. "Johnny" Rogers]]
| succeeded=Jackson Beauregard Davis]]<br>
(District 37)<br>
[[Cecil K. Carter, Jr.]]<br>
(District 38)<br>
[[Don Williamson]]<br>
(District 39)
| birth_date=December 12, 1928
| birth_place=Homer, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
| death_date=September 22, 2015 (aged 86)
| death_place=[[Shreveport]], Louisiana
| resting_place=Body donated to medical science
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| occupation=[[Attorney]]
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana State University]]<br>
LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center
| spouse=(1) Lorraine Yearwood LeSage ([[divorce]]d)<br>
(2) Dolores F. Word LeSage
| children=Sherry Anne LeSage (1950–2010)<br>
Susan Virginia "Susie" LeSage<br>
Step-daughters:<br>
Deborah Word Jackson<br>
Sondra Word Jordan<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Joseph, Sr., and Avalyn Taylor LeSage
|branch=[[United States Army]] Ordnance Corps<br>
[[Judge Advocate General's Corps]]
(stateside service)
|serviceyears=1952-1954
}}
'''Joseph Carnahan LeSage, Jr.''', known as '''Joe LeSage''' (December 12, 1928 – September 22, 2015),<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=joe-c-lesage&pid=175914028&fhid=6593|title=Joe C. LeSage, Jr., obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=September 24, 2015|accessdate=September 27, 2015}}</ref> was an [[attorney]] in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], who served as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state senator for a single term from 1968 to 1972.<ref>SENATE DIRECTORY 1880-Present (la.gov), Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2024, accessed April 20, 2021}}</ref>
==Background==
LeSage was born to Joseph LeSage, Sr. (1895–1964), and the former Avalyn Taylor (1907–1991). The senior LeSages are interred at Arlington Cemetery in Homer in [Claiborne Parish. He played [[football]]l]] at Homer High School and then attended [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], where he was the [[quarterback]] of the LSU Tigers in 1948.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lsusports.net/src/data/lsu/assets/docs/fb/pdf/05fbguide177-194.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=5200|title=Lettermen at LSU|publisher=lsusports.net|accessdate=May 4, 2010}}</ref> In 1949, LeSage graduated from LSU, where he was affiliated with Omicron Delta Kappa and Gamma Eta Gamma. In 1952, he obtained his law degree from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at LSU and was admitted to the Louisiana bar.<ref name=bio/>Lesage served from 1952 to 1954 in the [[United States Army]] Ordnance Corps and the [[Judge Advocate General's Corps]] during the later portion of the [[Korean War]]. He was stationed stateside at Fort Sill, [[Oklahoma]], and the [[The Pentagon]] in [[Washington, D.C.]].<ref name=obit/>
==Political and legal career==
In 1956, at the age of only twenty-seven, LeSage was appointed to the LSU Board of Supervisors, the governing board of the university. He left the board during his state Senate tenure but returned to serve again much later from 1992 to 1998. He maintained a lifelong interest in matters relating to his ''[[alma mater]]''.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.blpllaw.com/Firm%20Info/Lawyers/608130.aspx|title=Joseph C. LeSage, Jr.|publisher=blpllaw.com|accessdate=April 30, 2010}}</ref>
LeSage was elected to the state Senate in the [[general election]] held on February 6, 1968. LeSage and two other Democrats, [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]] (the future [[U.S. Senator]]), and incumbent state Senator [[Jackson B. Davis]], defeated the sole [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate, [[Tom Stagg]], in an at-large race.<ref>State of Louisiana, Secretary of State, Louisiana general election returns, February 6, 1968.</ref> The Senate seats thereafter were converted to single-member districts. All four state Senate candidates were Shreveport lawyers. Stagg, who died three months before LeSage, was appointed in 1974 by [[U.S. President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]] to the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in Shreveport.
LeSage practiced in the firm of Booth, Lockard, Politz, and LeSage at 920 Pierremont Road in Shreveport, Booth, Lockard, Jack, Pleasant and LeSage; the "Jack" in the name was the late [[Whitfield Jack]]. He specializes in personal injury, white collar criminal defense and estate law. LeSage was affiliated with the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.<ref name=bio/>
==Personal life==
LeSage was twice married. He was [[divorce]]d from the former Lorraine Yearwood (1928-2020), the daughter of Boyd Yearwood (1907–1976) and Olwen M. Yearwood (1907–2003), later of [[Bossier City]]. The couple had two daughters, Susan Virginia "Susie" LeSage and Sherry Anne LeSage (1950–2010), a prominent Shreveport [[real estate]] agent. Sherry LeSage, her mother Lorraine LeSage, and maternal grandmother Olwen Yearwood, formed Yearwood-LeSage Realtors.<ref>Lorraine LeSage Obituary (1928 - 2020) - Shreveport, LA - Shreveport Times (legacy.com, accessed April 20, 2021.</ref>The trio was the only three-generations of women engaged in real estate in Louisiana at the time. In 1987, Yearwood-LeSage merged with Towery Real Estate. Sherry LeSage was named Shreveport "Realtor of the Year" in 1990 and was appointed to a term on the Louisiana State Real Estate Commission. She died days before her sixtieth birthday, having contracted an auto-immune disease, scleroderma, which attacks the [[kidney]]s and requires regular [[dialysis]].<ref name=salobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=sherry-anne-lesage&pid=142330381|title=Sherry Anne LeSage obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=April 29, 2010|accessdate=April 30, 2010}}</ref>
LeSage had two step-daughters from his second wife, the former Dolores F. Word, whom he married c. 1980. Deborah Word "Debbie" Jackson is married to Patrick Jackson, and Sondra Word Jordan, who is the wife of Damon Jordon. LeSage has two step-grandchildren, Victoria Laiche Jordan and Zackary Joseph Jordan.<ref name=obit/>
LeSage was a long-term member of the Broadmoor [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church of Shreveport. He donated his body to medical science.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:LeSage, Joe}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Football]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]