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'''David L. Pearce''', known as '''Dave Pearce''' (September 8, 1905<ref name=parc>{{cite web|url=http://www.parlouisiana.org/s3web/1002087/docs/Constitutional%20Amendment%20Archive/CA1979_Sept.pdf|title=Dave L. Pearce, p. 22|publisher=parlouisiana.org|accessdate=October 7, 2013; material no longer on-line}}</ref> – May 28, 1984),<ref>Dave L. Pearce, Search.ancestry.com.</ref> was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] who served as the [[Louisiana]] Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry from 1952 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1976. Allied with [[Earl Long|anti-Long]] elements in the state, Pearce was unseated in the Democratic [[primary]] after a single term in 1956 by the Long-endorsed entomologist Sidney Jackson McCrory (1911-1985) of Ascension Parish near [[Baton Rouge]]. Then, Pearce unseated McCrory to regain the post in 1960 and then lost it again in Louisiana's first-ever nonpartisan blanket primary in 1975 to a fellow Democrat, [[Gil Dozier]]. He also failed in a 1979 campaign to reclaim the office.
'''David L. Pearce''', known as '''Dave Pearce''' (September 8, 1905<ref name=parc>{{cite web|url=http://www.parlouisiana.org/s3web/1002087/docs/Constitutional%20Amendment%20Archive/CA1979_Sept.pdf|title=Dave L. Pearce, p. 22|publisher=parlouisiana.org|accessdate=October 7, 2013; material no longer on-line}}</ref> – May 28, 1984),<ref>Dave L. Pearce, Search.ancestry.com.</ref> was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] who served as the [[Louisiana]] Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry from 1952 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1976. Allied with [[Earl Long|anti-Long]] elements in the state, Pearce was unseated in the Democratic [[primary]] after a single term in 1956 by the Long-endorsed entomologist Sidney Jackson McCrory (1911-1985) of Ascension Parish near [[Baton Rouge]]. Then, Pearce unseated McCrory to regain the post in 1960 and then lost it again in Louisiana's first-ever nonpartisan blanket primary in 1975 to a fellow Democrat, Gilbert L. Dozier. He also failed in a 1979 campaign to reclaim the office.
==Background==
==Background==