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{{Infobox officeholder
|image=Evelyn Blackmon of LA.jpg
|name=Evelyn Louise Kinnison Blackmon
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br>for District 15 (Ouachita Parish)
|term_start=1984
|term_end=1988
|preceded=[[Shady Wall]]
|succeeded=[[Charles Anding]]
|birth_place=Standard, La Salle Parish, Louisiana
|birth_date=November 2, 1924
|death_date=May 21, 2014 (aged
death_place=
|resting_place=Mulhearn Memorial Park in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], Louisiana
|residence=West Monroe, Louisiana
|spouse=Dr. Edward S. Blackmon, Jr. (deceased)
|children=Dr. Larry Blackmon<br>
Jan B. Mattingly<br>
Five granddaughters
|party= [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|occupation=Real estate businesswoman
|alma_mater=[[University of Louisiana at Monroe]]
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]}}
'''Evelyn Louise Kinnison Blackmon''' (November 2, 1924 – May 21, 2014) was a [[real estate]] [[business]]woman from West Monroe, [[Louisiana]], who served one term from 1984 to 1988 a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative from House3 District 15, the first and thus far only woman to hold that particular legislative seat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016|publisher=house.louisiana.gov|accessdate=May 22, 2014}}</ref>
==Background==
Born in Standard in northern La Salle Parish in North Louisiana, Blackmon was one of two daughters of Robert Samuel Kinnison and the former Emma Horne. Her surviving sister is Dorothy Kinnision, also of West Monroe. In 1967, Blackmon became the first woman to receive a degree in industrial management from the College of Business Administration of the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]].<ref name=obit/>
In 1968, she became the first woman elected president of the Louisiana Realtors Association. She was instrumental in securing the property which became the West Monroe Post Office as well as the acquisition of Glenwood Mall and its conversion to a Medical Mall. In 1974, she was the first woman in Louisiana to receive the Realtor designation of "Certified Commercial Investment Member." She was the first woman named to the Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry, an appointment that she received in 1976 from then Lieutenant Governor Jimmy Fitzmorris.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=evelyn-blackmon&pid=171102732&fhid=20715#sthash.a89ANCcS.dpuf|title=Evelyn Blackmon obituary|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star'''|accessdate=May 23, 2014}}</ref> She was also a former director of the West Monroe [[Chamber of Commerce]].<ref name=eblackmon/>
==Political life==
In the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] held on October 22, 1983, Blackmon led the [[Republican Party|Republican]] insurance agent Robert Charles Payne (born c. 1943) by 14 votes, 3,244 (22.5 percent) to 3,230 (22.4 percent). Four other candidates held the actual majority of the votes cast, 55 percent, but were eliminated in the general election between frontrunners Blackmon and Payne.<ref name=primary>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983. In the [[general election]] runoff on November 19, 1983, Blackmon prevailed, 5,295 (54 percent) to Paynes 4,523 votes (46 percebt);<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Results, November 19, 1983.</ref>v|accessdate=May 22, 2014}}</ref> t her seat turned Republican in 1995.
During her one term in the legislature, Blackmon and [[Kathleen Blanco]] of [[Lafayette]] were two of only five women in both houses of the state legislature. Blanco was subsequently elected [[governor]] in 2003, with her friend Blackmon's support.<ref name=eblackmon>"Former state representative Blackmon dead at 89, ''Monroe News-Star,'' May 22, 2014.</ref> While serving in the state House, she helped to secure the I-20 Camp Road Interchange in Ouachita Parish.<ref name=obit/>
Blackmon was defeated for a second term in the primary held on October 24, 1987. With 3,083 votes (20.1 percent), she finished third among five candidates. Fellow Democrat [[Charles Anding]], a labor union official from West Monroe, who led in the primary with 4,569 votes (29.8 percent), was placed into a general election with Republican David Glen Haynes (born c. 1954), who received 3,984 primary votes (26 percent). Anding then narrowly defeated Haynes to claim the seat.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> Haynes had also run unsuccessfully for this same House seat in 1983.<ref name=primary/>
==Death at 89==
Blackmon and her late husband, Dr. Edward S. Blackmon, Jr., had two children, Dr. Larry Blackmon and wife Dency, and Jan Mattingly and husband, Dale, all of West Monroe. The couple had a second home on Caney Lake in Jackson Parish and traveled widely throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia during their time together. Blackmon died at the age of eighty-nine. Services were held on May 23 in the Feazel Chapel of the First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist Church]] of West Monroe, where she was a long-time member. Burial followed at Mulhearn Memorial Park in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]].<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blackmon, Evelyn}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
|image=Evelyn Blackmon of LA.jpg
|name=Evelyn Louise Kinnison Blackmon
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br>for District 15 (Ouachita Parish)
|term_start=1984
|term_end=1988
|preceded=[[Shady Wall]]
|succeeded=[[Charles Anding]]
|birth_place=Standard, La Salle Parish, Louisiana
|birth_date=November 2, 1924
|death_date=May 21, 2014 (aged
death_place=
|resting_place=Mulhearn Memorial Park in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], Louisiana
|residence=West Monroe, Louisiana
|spouse=Dr. Edward S. Blackmon, Jr. (deceased)
|children=Dr. Larry Blackmon<br>
Jan B. Mattingly<br>
Five granddaughters
|party= [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|occupation=Real estate businesswoman
|alma_mater=[[University of Louisiana at Monroe]]
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]}}
'''Evelyn Louise Kinnison Blackmon''' (November 2, 1924 – May 21, 2014) was a [[real estate]] [[business]]woman from West Monroe, [[Louisiana]], who served one term from 1984 to 1988 a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative from House3 District 15, the first and thus far only woman to hold that particular legislative seat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016|publisher=house.louisiana.gov|accessdate=May 22, 2014}}</ref>
==Background==
Born in Standard in northern La Salle Parish in North Louisiana, Blackmon was one of two daughters of Robert Samuel Kinnison and the former Emma Horne. Her surviving sister is Dorothy Kinnision, also of West Monroe. In 1967, Blackmon became the first woman to receive a degree in industrial management from the College of Business Administration of the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]].<ref name=obit/>
In 1968, she became the first woman elected president of the Louisiana Realtors Association. She was instrumental in securing the property which became the West Monroe Post Office as well as the acquisition of Glenwood Mall and its conversion to a Medical Mall. In 1974, she was the first woman in Louisiana to receive the Realtor designation of "Certified Commercial Investment Member." She was the first woman named to the Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry, an appointment that she received in 1976 from then Lieutenant Governor Jimmy Fitzmorris.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=evelyn-blackmon&pid=171102732&fhid=20715#sthash.a89ANCcS.dpuf|title=Evelyn Blackmon obituary|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star'''|accessdate=May 23, 2014}}</ref> She was also a former director of the West Monroe [[Chamber of Commerce]].<ref name=eblackmon/>
==Political life==
In the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] held on October 22, 1983, Blackmon led the [[Republican Party|Republican]] insurance agent Robert Charles Payne (born c. 1943) by 14 votes, 3,244 (22.5 percent) to 3,230 (22.4 percent). Four other candidates held the actual majority of the votes cast, 55 percent, but were eliminated in the general election between frontrunners Blackmon and Payne.<ref name=primary>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983. In the [[general election]] runoff on November 19, 1983, Blackmon prevailed, 5,295 (54 percent) to Paynes 4,523 votes (46 percebt);<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Results, November 19, 1983.</ref>v|accessdate=May 22, 2014}}</ref> t her seat turned Republican in 1995.
During her one term in the legislature, Blackmon and [[Kathleen Blanco]] of [[Lafayette]] were two of only five women in both houses of the state legislature. Blanco was subsequently elected [[governor]] in 2003, with her friend Blackmon's support.<ref name=eblackmon>"Former state representative Blackmon dead at 89, ''Monroe News-Star,'' May 22, 2014.</ref> While serving in the state House, she helped to secure the I-20 Camp Road Interchange in Ouachita Parish.<ref name=obit/>
Blackmon was defeated for a second term in the primary held on October 24, 1987. With 3,083 votes (20.1 percent), she finished third among five candidates. Fellow Democrat [[Charles Anding]], a labor union official from West Monroe, who led in the primary with 4,569 votes (29.8 percent), was placed into a general election with Republican David Glen Haynes (born c. 1954), who received 3,984 primary votes (26 percent). Anding then narrowly defeated Haynes to claim the seat.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> Haynes had also run unsuccessfully for this same House seat in 1983.<ref name=primary/>
==Death at 89==
Blackmon and her late husband, Dr. Edward S. Blackmon, Jr., had two children, Dr. Larry Blackmon and wife Dency, and Jan Mattingly and husband, Dale, all of West Monroe. The couple had a second home on Caney Lake in Jackson Parish and traveled widely throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia during their time together. Blackmon died at the age of eighty-nine. Services were held on May 23 in the Feazel Chapel of the First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist Church]] of West Monroe, where she was a long-time member. Burial followed at Mulhearn Memorial Park in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]].<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blackmon, Evelyn}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]