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'''Benjamin Casanas Toledano''', known as '''Ben C. Toledano''' (born September 17, 1932 – November 6, 2021), was a [[paleoconservative]] [[author]], activist, and [[attorney]] who was the unsuccessful [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee for [[mayor]] of his native [[New Orleans]] in 1970 and for the U.S. Senate seat from [[Louisiana]] in 1972, a post now filled by [[Moderate Republican]] [[Bill Cassidy]].  
 
'''Benjamin Casanas Toledano''', known as '''Ben C. Toledano''' (born September 17, 1932 – November 6, 2021), was a [[paleoconservative]] [[author]], activist, and [[attorney]] who was the unsuccessful [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee for [[mayor]] of his native [[New Orleans]] in 1970 and for the U.S. Senate seat from [[Louisiana]] in 1972, a post now filled by [[Moderate Republican]] [[Bill Cassidy]].  
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Toledano was born in New Orleans to Frederick Albert Toledano and the former Beecye Casanas. He survived his sister, Suzanne Angele Toledano.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obits.nola.com/us/obituaries/nola/name/benjamin-toledano-obituary?id=31545624|title=Benjamin Toledan obituary|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=November 12, 2021|accessdae=November 13, 2021}}</ref>  
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Toledano was born in New Orleans to Frederick Albert Toledano and the former Beecye Casanas. He survived his sister, Suzanne Angele Toledano.<ref name=death>{{cite web|url=https://obits.nola.com/us/obituaries/nola/name/benjamin-toledano-obituary?id=31545624|title=Benjamin Toledan obituary|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=November 12, 2021|accessdae=November 13, 2021}}</ref>  
    
==Running for mayor of the Crescent City==
 
==Running for mayor of the Crescent City==
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==Moving temporarily to Virginia==
 
==Moving temporarily to Virginia==
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In 1983, the Toledanos &mdash; Ben, his first wife Roulhac Bunkley Toledano (born December 16, 1938), from whom he was divorced; three daughters, and a son &mdash; relocated to Charlottesville, [[Virginia]], where they renovated a $200,000 warehouse building into an elegant home true to cultural tastes in the home city of [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Toledano bought five copies of classical books, one for his wife and himself and one for each of their children. He particularly stressed southern Agrarians and classicists such as [[Walker Percy]] and [[Eudora Welty]].
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In 1983, the Toledanos &mdash; Ben, his first wife Roulhac Bunkley Toledano (born December 16, 1938), from whom he was later divorced; three daughters, Gabrielle Beauregard Toledano Gantert, Roulhac d'Arby Toledano, and Cleanth Brooks Toledano Raja, and a son Philip Macon Cheek Toledano,<ref name=death/> relocated to Charlottesville, [[Virginia]], where they renovated a $200,000 warehouse building into an elegant home true to cultural tastes in the home city of [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Toledano bought five copies of classical books, one for his wife and himself and one for each of their children. He particularly stressed southern Agrarians and classicists such as [[Walker Percy]] and [[Eudora Welty]].
    
In 1991, Toledano returned to the New Orleans area and gained a license to practice law in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
 
In 1991, Toledano returned to the New Orleans area and gained a license to practice law in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
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