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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> | + | 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> |
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| | ==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 — Ben, his first wife Roulhac Bunkley Toledano (born December 16, 1938), from whom he was divorced; three daughters, and a son — 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 1983, the Toledanos — 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]]. |
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| | 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. |