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==Political career==

==Political career==

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 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 Perez]] 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.

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.