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==Background==

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Kemp was the son of [[U.S. Representative]] Bolivar Edwards Kemp, Sr. (~~1871-1933~~) of Amite City, the seat of government for Tangipahoa Parish, one of the Louisiana "Florida Parishes" east of the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]]. His mother was the former Esther Edwards Conner (~~1875-1943~~), known as "Lallie" Kemp.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000085|title=Bolivar Edwards Kemp, Sr.|publisher=bioguide.congress.gov|accessdate=Februry 28, 2021}}</ref> Kemp's paternal grandparents were Judge William Breed Kemp, Sr., and the former Elizabeth Newsom.<ref name=kempsrobit>Obituary of Bolivar E. Kemp, Sr., ''The Ponchatoula (Louisiana) Enterprise,''June 23, 1933.</ref> His maternal grandparents were Sidney Simonton Conner of Statesville, [[North Carolina]], and the former Orra Anna Edwards of Tangipahoa Parish. Kemp had a younger sister, Eleanor Ogden Kemp (born 1909), later Eleanor Ellis, married to Louisiana District Court Judge Robert S. Ellis, Jr.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157345380/eleanor-ogden-ellis|title=Eleanor Ogden Kemp Ellise|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=February 28, 2021}}</ref>

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Kemp was the son of [[U.S. Representative]] Bolivar Edwards Kemp, Sr. (1871–1933) of Amite City, the seat of government for Tangipahoa Parish, one of the Louisiana "Florida Parishes" east of the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]]. His mother was the former Esther Edwards Conner (1875–1943), known as "Lallie" Kemp.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000085|title=Bolivar Edwards Kemp, Sr.|publisher=bioguide.congress.gov|accessdate=Februry 28, 2021}}</ref> Kemp's paternal grandparents were Judge William Breed Kemp, Sr., and the former Elizabeth Newsom.<ref name=kempsrobit>Obituary of Bolivar E. Kemp, Sr., ''The Ponchatoula (Louisiana) Enterprise,''June 23, 1933.</ref> His maternal grandparents were Sidney Simonton Conner of Statesville, [[North Carolina]], and the former Orra Anna Edwards of Tangipahoa Parish. Kemp had a younger sister, Eleanor Ogden Kemp (born 1909), later Eleanor Ellis, married to Louisiana District Court Judge Robert S. Ellis, Jr.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157345380/eleanor-ogden-ellis|title=Eleanor Ogden Kemp Ellise|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=February 28, 2021}}</ref>

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Kemp's wife, Menette, was one of the three sisters of the Louisiana [[Cajun]] [[chef]] and humorist Justin Wilson (~~1914-2001~~), also of Amite. Their father, Harry D. Wilson (~~1869-1048~~), served for thirty-two years from 1916 until his death in January 1948 as the commissioner of the state Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Kemp had one foster son named Richard Tipton.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_8rx9WjAE9MC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=Bolivar+Kemp+and+Justin+Wilson&source=bl&ots=lnv8phJKqr&sig=8LkWL-aQR3hXk0MrKu_Miz6-heU&hl=en&ei=QHiKTPKBFIGBlAe4sJTNCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Justin Wilson's Cajun Humor|author=Justin Wilson|publisher=Pelican Publishing (Gretna, Louisiana)|date= January 31, 1974 |accessdate=February 28, 2021|page-10}}</ref>

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Kemp's wife, Menette, was one of the three sisters of the Louisiana [[Cajun]] [[chef]] and humorist Justin Wilson (1914–2001), also of Amite. Their father, Harry D. Wilson (1869–1048), served for thirty-two years from 1916 until his death in January 1948 as the commissioner of the state Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Kemp had one foster son named Richard Tipton.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_8rx9WjAE9MC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=Bolivar+Kemp+and+Justin+Wilson&source=bl&ots=lnv8phJKqr&sig=8LkWL-aQR3hXk0MrKu_Miz6-heU&hl=en&ei=QHiKTPKBFIGBlAe4sJTNCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Justin Wilson's Cajun Humor|author=Justin Wilson|publisher=Pelican Publishing (Gretna, Louisiana)|date= January 31, 1974 |accessdate=February 28, 2021|page-10}}</ref>

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Kemp graduated in 1897 from [[Tulane University]] Law School in [[New Orleans]]; his classmates included later [[United States Senator]] [[John H. Overton|John Holmes Overton, Sr.]] (~~1875-1948~~), and [[E. L. Stewart]], a lawyer in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] and a state representative for Webster Parish from 1904 to 1908<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yag4AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA148&lpg=RA3-PA148&dq=Edmond+Lee+Stewart+will+in+Louisiana&source=bl&ots=tKPKKwwUYK&sig=u_jmEmZ7KymiW5uCOOa16cVkWQE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0CQDVf2SDMqgNoargqgI&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Edmond%20Lee%20Stewart%20will%20in%20Louisiana&f=false|title=May 17, 1897|page=148|publisher=The Register of Tulane University|accessdate=February 27, 2015}}</ref>

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Kemp graduated in 1897 from [[Tulane University]] Law School in [[New Orleans]]; his classmates included later [[United States Senator]] [[John H. Overton|John Holmes Overton, Sr.]] (1875–1948), and [[E. L. Stewart]], a lawyer in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] and a state representative for Webster Parish from 1904 to 1908<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yag4AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA148&lpg=RA3-PA148&dq=Edmond+Lee+Stewart+will+in+Louisiana&source=bl&ots=tKPKKwwUYK&sig=u_jmEmZ7KymiW5uCOOa16cVkWQE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0CQDVf2SDMqgNoargqgI&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Edmond%20Lee%20Stewart%20will%20in%20Louisiana&f=false|title=May 17, 1897|page=148|publisher=The Register of Tulane University|accessdate=February 27, 2015}}</ref>

In 1933, at the time of his father's sudden death, Kemp was an assistant United States district attorney in New Orleans.<ref name=kempsrobit/> In 1943, at the time of his mother's death, Kemp was the district attorney for Tangipahoa Parish.

==Political career==

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Kemp was politically allied with [[Bill Dodd|William J. "Bill" Dodd]], the lieutenant governor from 1948 to 1952, who hired Justin Wilson as Dodd's campaign manager in the 1952 Louisiana gubernatorial election. Kemp and Dodd maintained that Louisiana seriously erred when it rejected a compromise tidelands offer from the [[Harry Truman]] administration. According to Dodd, had Governor Earl Long agreed to the plan, Louisiana would have gained billions of additional dollars in state revenues over the coming decades. Long rejected the compromise on advice from Judge Leander Henry Perez, Sr. (~~1891-1969~~) of Plaquemines Parish, who argued that Louisiana could win a much better settlement before the [[United States Supreme Court]]. As it turned out, the assessment of Dodd and Kemp was correct, and the Supreme Court rebuffed Louisiana's attempt to get a greater share of the offshore revenues. Dodd maintained that Louisiana government would have been the best funded in the nation had Long accepted Truman's offer. In 1982, Edgar Poe, former president of the National Press Corps in [[Washington, D.C.]], wrote Dodd that "Louisiana would be a tax-free state had the compromoise proposed been accepted. As you know, offshore Louisiana is the most intense [[oil]] and [[natural gas|gas]] development area in the world. As a result, the federal government is collecting hundreds of millions of dollars every year from lease sales of its share of the oil and gas sales."<ref>[[Bill Dodd]], ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics'', [[Baton Rouge]]: Claitors Publishing, 1991.</ref>

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Kemp was politically allied with [[Bill Dodd|William J. "Bill" Dodd]], the lieutenant governor from 1948 to 1952, who hired Justin Wilson as Dodd's campaign manager in the 1952 Louisiana gubernatorial election. Kemp and Dodd maintained that Louisiana seriously erred when it rejected a compromise tidelands offer from the [[Harry Truman]] administration. According to Dodd, had Governor Earl Long agreed to the plan, Louisiana would have gained billions of additional dollars in state revenues over the coming decades. Long rejected the compromise on advice from Judge Leander Henry Perez, Sr. (1891–1969) of Plaquemines Parish, who argued that Louisiana could win a much better settlement before the [[United States Supreme Court]]. As it turned out, the assessment of Dodd and Kemp was correct, and the Supreme Court rebuffed Louisiana's attempt to get a greater share of the offshore revenues. Dodd maintained that Louisiana government would have been the best funded in the nation had Long accepted Truman's offer. In 1982, Edgar Poe, former president of the National Press Corps in [[Washington, D.C.]], wrote Dodd that "Louisiana would be a tax-free state had the compromoise proposed been accepted. As you know, offshore Louisiana is the most intense [[oil]] and [[natural gas|gas]] development area in the world. As a result, the federal government is collecting hundreds of millions of dollars every year from lease sales of its share of the oil and gas sales."<ref>[[Bill Dodd]], ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics'', [[Baton Rouge]]: Claitors Publishing, 1991.</ref>

Kemp's stint as the state's top legal officer fell between the two nonconsecutive terms of Attorney General [[Fred S. LeBlanc]] of Baton Rouge, who served in the first [[Jimmie Davis]] and [[Robert F. Kennon]] administrations, respectively.

==Death==

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Kemp died at the age of sixty-one and is interred beside his wife and parents at Amite Cemetery. Mrs. Kemp, the former Menette Estelle Wilson (~~1905-1981~~), predeceased her brother Justin Wilson by some two decades.

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Kemp died at the age of sixty-one and is interred beside his wife and parents at Amite Cemetery. Mrs. Kemp, the former Menette Estelle Wilson (1905–1981), predeceased her brother Justin Wilson by some two decades.

<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137571111/menette-estelle-kemp|title=Menette Estelle Wilson Kemp|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=February 28, 2021}}</ref>

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