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==1952 campaign==

==1952 campaign==

In then 1952 gubernatorial campaign, McLemore spoke strongly against the "Fair Deal" of [[U.S. President]] [[Harry Truman]], who had lost Louisiana's [[electoral votes]] in 1948 to [[Strom Thurmond]], then the governor of [[South Carolina]], who ran on the [[Dixiecrat]] ticket but was the official Democratic nominee in Louisiana. McLemore in 1952 carried the endorsement of Leander Henry Perez, Sr., the political boss of Plaquemines Parish and a former Thurmond supporter, who at first had toyed with the candidacy of [[Lucille May Grace]], the register of state lands. Regardless, Perez wanted to defeat candidates supporting both Truman and Earl Long, who was at the time term-limited in the governor's office and was hence supporting Carlos G. Spaht, Sr., a state court judge in [[Baton Rouge]], rather than his lieutenant governor, [[Bill Dodd]].<ref name=perez>{{cite book|url=

In then 1952 gubernatorial campaign, McLemore spoke strongly against the "Fair Deal" of [[U.S. President]] [[Harry Truman]], who had lost Louisiana's [[electoral votes]] in 1948 to [[Strom Thurmond]], then the governor of [[South Carolina]], who ran on the [[Dixiecrat]] ticket but was the official Democratic nominee in Louisiana. McLemore in 1952 carried the endorsement of [[Leander  Perez]], the political boss of Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes and a former Thurmond supporter, who at first had toyed with the candidacy of [[Lucille May Grace]], the register of state lands. Regardless, Perez wanted to defeat candidates supporting both Truman and Earl Long, who was at the time term-limited in the governor's office and was hence supporting Carlos G. Spaht, Sr., a state court judge in [[Baton Rouge]], rather than his lieutenant governor, [[Bill Dodd]].<ref name=perez>{{cite book|url=

https://books.google.com/books?id=A2ZXz67oSdAC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=James+M.+McLemore+of+Alexandria&source=bl&ots=tybRsQ0jdo&sig=5dOQiQbq3ZzpaycT-rZjK7PX1SA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8S1wUu7RCrTC2gWnyICACw&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=James%20M.%20McLemore%20of%20Alexandria&f=false|title=Glen Jeansonne, Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta|publisher=Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977, 1995, 2006, pp. 151-152, 161|accessdate=October 29, 2013}}</ref>​

https://books.google.com/books?id=A2ZXz67oSdAC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=James+M.+McLemore+of+Alexandria&source=bl&ots=tybRsQ0jdo&sig=5dOQiQbq3ZzpaycT-rZjK7PX1SA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8S1wUu7RCrTC2gWnyICACw&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=James%20M.%20McLemore%20of%20Alexandria&f=false|title=Glen Jeansonne, Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta|publisher=Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977, 1995, 2006, pp. 151-152, 161|accessdate=October 29, 2013}}</ref>​