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In 1956, Courtney organized a campaign to prevent pro-[[civil rights]] law professor Walter Fischel Gellhorn (1906-1995) of [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]] from lecturing at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. Gellhorn was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a long-term board member of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] as well as a critic of [[segregation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss13/record2113.35.html|title=Walter Gellhorn, Law Authority, Is Dead at 89|publisher=Columbia.edu|date=December 1995|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref>
In 1956, Courtney organized a campaign to prevent pro-[[civil rights]] law professor Walter Fischel Gellhorn (1906-1995) of [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]] from lecturing at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. Gellhorn was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a long-term board member of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] as well as a critic of [[segregation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss13/record2113.35.html|title=Walter Gellhorn, Law Authority, Is Dead at 89|publisher=Columbia.edu|date=December 1995|accessdate=August 15, 2019}}</ref>
==Rallying for a new political party==
==Rallying for a new political party==
The 1959 gathering proposed the creation of a new party on grounds that establishment [[Republican Party|Republicans]] were unwilling to oppose Democratic policies with sufficient vigor to make a difference and hence would not offer [[conservative]] voters sufficient choices in [[general election]]s. The rally for a new party was further promoted by columnists Thomas J. Anderson (1910-2002) of Pigeon Forge, [[Tennessee]], Medford Bryan Evans (1907-1989), a professor at [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana; Republican Governor J. Bracken Lee (1999-1996) of [[Utah]], and [[Dan Smoot]], a native of [[Missouri]] and an investigative conservative journalist and former [[FBI]] agent.
The 1959 gathering proposed the creation of a new party on grounds that establishment [[Republican Party|Republicans]] were unwilling to oppose Democratic policies with sufficient vigor to make a difference and hence would not offer [[conservative]] voters sufficient choices in [[general election]]s. The rally for a new party was further promoted by columnists Thomas J. Anderson (1910-2002) of Pigeon Forge, [[Tennessee]], Medford Bryan Evans (1907-1989), a professor at [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana; Republican Governor J. Bracken Lee (1999-1996) of [[Utah]], and [[Dan Smoot]], a native of [[Missouri]] and an investigative conservative journalist and former [[FBI]] agent.
==Candidate for governor and presidential elector in Louisiana==
On April 19, 1960, Courtney was the [[Governor|gubernatorial]] nominee of the Louisiana States Rights Party. He received 12,515 votes (less than 2.5 percent) of the ballots cast. The winner was Democratic former Governor [[Jimmie Davis]], elected to his second nonconsecutive term. Also in that general election was a conservative Republican nominee, Francis Carroll Grevemberg (1914-2008), a former Democrat and a former superintendent of the Louisiana State Police who had conducted raids against organized crime in the 1950s.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, April 19, 1960.</ref>
On April 19, 1960, Courtney was the [[Governor|gubernatorial]] nominee of the Louisiana States Rights Party. He received 12,515 votes (less than 2.5 percent) of the ballots cast. The winner was Democratic former Governor [[Jimmie Davis]], elected to his second nonconsecutive term. Also in that general election was a conservative Republican nominee, Francis Carroll Grevemberg (1914-2008), a former Democrat and a former superintendent of the Louisiana State Police who had conducted raids against organized crime in the 1950s.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, April 19, 1960.</ref>
Kent Courtney's younger brother, Cy David Francis Courtney (1924-1995), a New Orleans lawyer, had been an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor on December 5, 1959, on a segregationist intra-party ticket with gubernatorial hopeful [[William Rainach]], a state senator from Claiborne Parish. Cy Courtney lost out to fellow Democrat Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock (1915-1987), a conservative from Franklin in St. Mary Parish.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, December 5, 1959.</ref> As a member of a third party, Kent Courtney could not vote for his brother in the then closed Democratic primary for lieutenant governor in 1959 but would have been able to have done so under the nonpartisan blanket primary, which was instituted in November 1975.
Kent Courtney's younger brother, Cy David Francis Courtney (1924-1995), a New Orleans lawyer, had been an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor on December 5, 1959, on a segregationist intra-party ticket with gubernatorial hopeful [[William Rainach]], a state senator from Claiborne Parish. Cy Courtney lost out to fellow Democrat Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock (1915-1987), a conservative from Franklin in St. Mary Parish.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, December 5, 1959.</ref> As a member of a third party, Kent Courtney could not vote for his brother in the then closed Democratic primary for lieutenant governor in 1959 but would have been able to have done so under the nonpartisan blanket primary, which began on November 1, 1975.
In the general election held on November 8, 1960, Kent Courtney was a States Rights Party [[presidential elector]], along with future Republican U.S. Representative and Governor [[David C. Treen]] and the fiery conservative Leander Henry Perez, Sr. (1891-1969), the longstanding political boss of Plaquemines Parsh near New Orleans. The Democratic ticket of [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] nevertheless handily won Louisiana's then ten [[electoral vote]]s as well as a national victory.<ref<Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 8, 1960.</ref>
In the general election held on November 8, 1960, Kent Courtney was a presidential elector of the States Rights Party; so was future Republican U.S. Representative and Governor [[David C. Treen]] and the fiery conservative, Leander Henry Perez, Sr. (1891-1969), the longstanding political boss of Plaquemines Parsh near New Orleans. The Democratic ticket of [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] nevertheless handily won Louisiana's then ten [[electoral vote]]s as well as a national victory.<ref<Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 8, 1960.</ref>
==Courtney and Goldwater==
==Courtney and Goldwater==