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 {{Infobox officeholder
-|name=Edmund Michael Reggie, Sr.
+| name=Edmund Michael Reggie, Sr.
 | nationality=[[Lebanon|Lebanese]]-[[United States|American]]
 | office=City Judge for Crowley,<br> Acadia Parish, [[Louisiana]]

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 In the 1960 presidential election, Reggie was a leading Kennedy supporter in Louisiana. In 1959, he invited Kennedy and his wife, [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]], to attend the International Rice Festival in Crowley as honored guests. This afforded Kennedy the opportunity to address a crowd of 130,000 people.<ref>[http://www.reggiefamilyarchives.com/Crowley-Rice-Festival-1959.html Crowley Rice Festival, 1959]</ref> The Kennedys were greeted by enthusiastic crowds — the largest JFK addressed prior to his presidential nomination in July 1960. Working with Reggie in the campaign was the former Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry Sidney McCrory of Ascension Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepineywoods.com/ABarefootBoy.htm|author=W. C. Abbott, Jr.|title="A barefoot boy from Home Villa had a hand in history"|publisher=thepineywoods.com|accessdate=May 2, 2013; no longer on-line.}}</ref>
-Reggie was nominated as a [[Electoral college|presidential elector]] in Louisiana for the Democratic ticket of John F. Kennedy-[[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and cast his vote when Kennedy handily prevailed in the statewide popular vote. Other national Democratic electors that year were Louisiana Attorney General] Jack Paul Faustin Gremillion (1914-2001), former interim [[U.S. Senator]] William C. Feazel, former state Senator Frank Burton Ellis of Covington, and [[Leon Gary]] of Houma, later director of the Louisiana Department of Public Works.<ref>''Minden Press,'' November 7, 1960.</ref>
+Reggie was nominated as a [[Electoral college|presidential elector]] in Louisiana for the Democratic ticket of John F. Kennedy-[[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and cast his vote when Kennedy handily prevailed in the statewide popular vote. Other national Democratic electors that year were Louisiana Attorney General [[Jack P. F. Gremillion]], former interim [[U.S. Senator]] William C. Feazel, former state Senator Frank Burton Ellis of Covington, and [[Leon Gary]] of Houma, later director of the Louisiana Department of Public Works.<ref>''Minden Press,'' November 7, 1960.</ref>
 Following his inauguration, President Kennedy sent Reggie on a 1961 [[State Department]] cultural exchange to the [[Middle East]],<ref>[http://www.reggiefamilyarchives.com/279-6/20/1961.html Reggie Called JFK Emissary]</ref> where in Lebanon he was given a hero's welcome in his parents' hometown of Ihden.<ref>[http://www.reggiefamilyarchives.com/1196-In-Lebanon-Carrying-Daddy.html Photo of Reggie on shoulders of Lebanese crowd]</ref> Reggie continued to serve the president as liaison with then Louisiana Governor [[Jimmie Davis]] from 1961 until the [[Kennedy Assassination]] in 1963.<ref>{{cite news|first=Mark |last=Schleifstein|title=Reggie a player in politics|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=May 25, 1989|page=A-1}}</ref>

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 Reggie was married to the former Doris Ann Boustany (born July 18, 1930), the daughter of businessman Frem F. Boustany, Sr. (1903–1993), and the former Beatrice Joseph (1912–1988). Doris was born in Lafayette and graduated with honors from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.<ref name=whoswho/> Beatrice Boustany was a cousin of Amin Gemayel, a former president of Lebanon. Frem F. Boustany, Jr., a brother-in-law of Edmund Reggie, was a [[physician]] who died two months before the passing of  Beatrice.<ref>"[Beatrice] Boustany service set," ''Lafayette Daily Advertiser,'' October 15, 1988, p. 20.</ref>
-Doris Reggie is a second cousin of former [[U.S. Representative]] Charles Boustany of Lafayette, a [[Republican Party|Republican]] from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. Charles Boustany is a nephew-by-marriage of former [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]], a Reggie confidant who also began his long political career in Crowley though Edwards was a native of Marksville in Avoyelles Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20131122/NEWS01/311220025/|title=Judge Edmund Reggie laid to rest: Democratic Party insider died Tuesday at 87|date=November 22, 2013|publisher=''Lafayette Daily Advertiser''|accessdate=November 23, 2013}}</ref>
+Doris Reggie is a second cousin of former [[U.S. Representative]] Charles Boustany of Lafayette, a [[Republican Party|Republican]] from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. Charles Boustany is a nephew-by-marriage of former [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]], a Reggie confidant who also began his long political career in Crowley though Edwards was a native of Marksville in Avoyelles Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20131122/NEWS01/311220025/|title=Judge Edmund Reggie laid to rest: Democratic Party insider died Tuesday at 87|date=November 22, 2013|publisher=''The Lafayette Daily Advertiser''|accessdate=November 23, 2013; no longer-online.}}</ref>
 A long-term Democratic Party figure, Doris Reggie was a delegate to the national party conventions held between 1976 and 1996. She sat on the platform committees in 1980, 1984, and 1988. She was a member of the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee from 1975 to 1992 and sat on the finance committee from 1977 to 1996. She was amember of the national party finance committee from 1980 to 1992. She was the [[Democratic National Committee|Democratic national committeewoman]] for Louisiana from 1984 to 1988. In 1979, she was a member of the Governor's Committee for the International Year of the Child.<ref name=whoswho>"Louisiana: Reggie, Doris Boustany," ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2003-2004'', 19th ed., Vol. 1 (Alabama-Montana) (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, [[New Jersey]], 2003), p. 792.</ref>

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 At the 1956 [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[Chicago]], with the Louisiana and Massachusetts state delegations sitting across the aisle from each other, Reggie brokered the delegation's support for U.S. Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] for [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] (on a ticket with [[Adlai Stevenson]], rather than the vice-presidential nominee chosen, Senator [[Estes Kefauver]] of [[Tennessee]], the preference of Louisiana Governor Earl Long.<ref>{{cite web|author=Jim Bradshaw|title=Acadiana Diary: Louisiana delegation helped bring JFK to notice|url=http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200803020250/COLUMNISTS01/803020331|publisher=''The Lafayette Daily Advertiser''|accessdate=October 28, 2008}}</ref>
-In the 1960 presidential election, Reggie was a leading Kennedy supporter in Louisiana. In 1959, he invited Kennedy and his wife, [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]], to attend the International Rice Festival in Crowley as honored guests. This afforded Kennedy the opportunity to address a crowd of 130,000 people.<ref>[http://www.reggiefamilyarchives.com/Crowley-Rice-Festival-1959.html Crowley Rice Festival, 1959]</ref> The Kennedys were greeted by enthusiastic crowds — the largest JFK addressed prior to his presidential nomination in July 1960. Working with Reggie in the campaign was the former Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry Sidney McCrory of Ascension Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepineywoods.com/ABarefootBoy.htm|title=W. C. Abbott, Jr., "A barefoot boy from Home Villa had a hand in history"|publisher=thepineywoods.com|accessdate=May 2, 2013}}</ref>
+In the 1960 presidential election, Reggie was a leading Kennedy supporter in Louisiana. In 1959, he invited Kennedy and his wife, [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]], to attend the International Rice Festival in Crowley as honored guests. This afforded Kennedy the opportunity to address a crowd of 130,000 people.<ref>[http://www.reggiefamilyarchives.com/Crowley-Rice-Festival-1959.html Crowley Rice Festival, 1959]</ref> The Kennedys were greeted by enthusiastic crowds — the largest JFK addressed prior to his presidential nomination in July 1960. Working with Reggie in the campaign was the former Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry Sidney McCrory of Ascension Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepineywoods.com/ABarefootBoy.htm|author=W. C. Abbott, Jr.|title="A barefoot boy from Home Villa had a hand in history"|publisher=thepineywoods.com|accessdate=May 2, 2013; no longer on-line.}}</ref>
 Reggie was nominated as a [[Electoral college|presidential elector]] in Louisiana for the Democratic ticket of John F. Kennedy-[[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and cast his vote when Kennedy handily prevailed in the statewide popular vote. Other national Democratic electors that year were Louisiana Attorney General] Jack Paul Faustin Gremillion (1914-2001), former interim [[U.S. Senator]] William C. Feazel, former state Senator Frank Burton Ellis of Covington, and [[Leon Gary]] of Houma, later director of the Louisiana Department of Public Works.<ref>''Minden Press,'' November 7, 1960.</ref>

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 In 2004, Reggie was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield. Son-in-law Edward Kennedy paid a surprise visit to the event.<ref name=lpmhof>{{cite web|url=http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php?viewID=41|title=Edmund Reggie|publisher=Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame|accessdate=September 16, 2019}}</ref>
-In May 2008, the ouisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism declared the location where JFK delivered his 1959 International Rice Festival speech in Crowley an area of historical significance and erected an historical marker.
+In May 2008, the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism declared the location where JFK delivered his 1959 International Rice Festival speech in Crowley an area of historical significance and erected an historical marker.
 Judge Reggie died at the age of eighty-seven at his Lafayette home surrounded by his wife and family. Services were held on November 22, the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Crowley. Interment followed in Woodlawn Mausoleum in Crowley.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvertiser/obituary.aspx?n=edmund-reggie&pid=168099013&fhid=16696|title=Judge Edmund Reggie|publisher=''Lafayette Daily Advertiser''|accessdate=November 23, 2013}}</ref>

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 ==Background==
-Reggie was of [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] descent.<ref>1930 United States Federal Census, Acadia Parish, Louisiana [database online] Provo, UT, provided through Ancestry.com, accessed February 25, 2005.</ref><ref> In 1946, he received a bachelor's degree from the Southwestern Louisiana Institute in Lafayette, since the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 1949, he procured his law degree from the [[Tulane University]] Law School in [[New Orleans]].<ref>''Who's Who in the South and Southwest,'' 13th Ed., 1973-1974, Marquis Who's Who, Inc., Chicago, 1973</ref>
+Reggie was of [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] descent.<ref>1930 United States Federal Census, Acadia Parish, Louisiana [database online] Provo, UT, provided through Ancestry.com, accessed February 25, 2005.</ref> In 1946, he received a bachelor's degree from the Southwestern Louisiana Institute in Lafayette, since the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 1949, he procured his law degree from the [[Tulane University]] Law School in [[New Orleans]].<ref>''Who's Who in the South and Southwest,'' 13th Ed., 1973-1974, Marquis Who's Who, Inc., Chicago, 1973</ref>
 Reggie was married to the former Doris Ann Boustany (born July 18, 1930), the daughter of businessman Frem F. Boustany, Sr. (1903–1993), and the former Beatrice Joseph (1912–1988). Doris was born in Lafayette and graduated with honors from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.<ref name=whoswho/> Beatrice Boustany was a cousin of Amin Gemayel, a former president of Lebanon. Frem F. Boustany, Jr., a brother-in-law of Edmund Reggie, was a [[physician]] who died two months before the passing of  Beatrice.<ref>"[Beatrice] Boustany service set," ''Lafayette Daily Advertiser,'' October 15, 1988, p. 20.</ref>

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 Following his inauguration, President Kennedy sent Reggie on a 1961 [[State Department]] cultural exchange to the [[Middle East]],<ref>[http://www.reggiefamilyarchives.com/279-6/20/1961.html Reggie Called JFK Emissary]</ref> where in Lebanon he was given a hero's welcome in his parents' hometown of Ihden.<ref>[http://www.reggiefamilyarchives.com/1196-In-Lebanon-Carrying-Daddy.html Photo of Reggie on shoulders of Lebanese crowd]</ref> Reggie continued to serve the president as liaison with then Louisiana Governor [[Jimmie Davis]] from 1961 until the [[Kennedy Assassination]] in 1963.<ref>{{cite news|first=Mark |last=Schleifstein|title=Reggie a player in politics|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=May 25, 1989|page=A-1}}</ref>
-In 1963, Reggie introduced the young political consultant [[Gus Weill]] of Lafayette to Louisiana Public Service Commissioner [[John J. McKeithen]], who retained Weill to manage McKeithen's gubernatorial campaign. Weill previously managed the Davis campaign and later wrote a biography of his mentor entitled ''Your Are My Sunshine,''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.la.gov/tabid/227Default.aspx|title=Oral Histories: Gus Weill|publisher=www.sos.la.gov|accessdate=August 21, 2012}}</ref> also the title of Davis' most memorable song.
+In 1963, Reggie introduced the young political consultant [[Gus Weill]] of Lafayette to Louisiana Public Service Commissioner [[John J. McKeithen]], who retained Weill to manage McKeithen's gubernatorial campaign. Weill previously managed the Davis campaign and later wrote a biography of his mentor entitled ''Your Are My Sunshine,''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.la.gov/tabid/227Default.aspx|title=Oral Histories: Gus Weill|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=August 21, 2012; no longer on-line.}}</ref> also the title of Davis' most memorable song.
 In 1968, Judge Reggie spearheaded the [[Robert F. Kennedy]] presidential primary campaign in Louisiana. Reggie invited Kennedy to speak at the 1968 International Rice Festival in October of that year, just as Kennedy's brother, John, had done nine years earlier. As history unfolded, Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968, four months prior to his planned appearance at the  rice festival.

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 In the 1971 Democratic [[Governor|gubernatorial]] primary to choose a successor to John McKeithen, Reggie supported not his Crowley friend, Edwin Edwards, but former Governor Jimmie Davis, one of the more conservative candidates in the crowded field who was seeking a third nonconsecutive term.. At the time Reggie erroneously considered Edwards unelectable. The decision hampered their relationship, and the two did not speak for three years."<ref>Leo Honeycutt, ''Edwin Edwards: Governor of Louisiana,'' Lisburn Press, 2009, p. 70.</ref>
-In 1992, his daughter, Victoria, married U.S. Senator [[Edward M. Kennedy]]. Reggie’s close relationship with son-in-law Ted Kennedy was evidenced occasionally in the press.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.boston.com/news/specials/kennedy/ |author=Bella English|publisher=''The Boston Globe'' |  title=''Ted Kennedy. A Life in Politics'' | date=August 26, 2009}}</ref>
+In 1992, his daughter, Victoria, married U.S. Senator [[Edward M. Kennedy]]. Reggie’s close relationship with son-in-law Ted Kennedy was evidenced occasionally in the press.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.boston.com/news/specials/kennedy/ |author=Bella English|publisher=''The Boston Globe''|title=''Ted Kennedy. A Life in Politics''| date=August 26, 2009}}</ref>
-In 1993, Reggie was convicted of misapplication of funds (a [[felony]]) and was sentenced to 120 days of home confinement and a $30,000 fine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reggiefamilyarchives.com/1761-Reggie-gets-120-days-at-home-in-bank-case.html|title=Reggie gets 120 days at home in bank case|publisher=Reggiefamilyarchives.com|accessdate=September 16, 2019}}</ref>
+In 1993, Reggie was convicted of misapplication of funds (a [[felony]]) and was sentenced to 120 days of home confinement and a $30,000 fine.
 In 2004, Reggie was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield. Son-in-law Edward Kennedy paid a surprise visit to the event.<ref name=lpmhof>{{cite web|url=http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php?viewID=41|title=Edmund Reggie|publisher=Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame|accessdate=September 16, 2019}}</ref>