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==Life and career==

==Life and career==

A native of [[Maine]],<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.funeraldigest.com/obituaries/?id=138250727|title=Perry Holbrook Howard|publisher=funeraldigest.com|accessdate=February 9, 2010}}</ref> Howard served for three years in the [[United States Navy]] in the South West Pacific Theater of Operations during [[World War II]]. Thereafter, he attended [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. In 1964, he returned to LSU a decade after his graduation and remained on the faculty for nearly thirty years.<ref name=obit/>​

A native of [[Maine]],<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.funeraldigest.com/obituaries/?id=138250727|title=Perry Holbrook Howard|publisher=funeraldigest.com|accessdate=February 9, 201; no longer on-line.}}</ref> Howard served for three years in the [[United States Navy]] in the South West Pacific Theater of Operations during [[World War II]]. Thereafter, he attended [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. In 1964, he returned to LSU a decade after his graduation and remained on the faculty for nearly thirty years.<ref name=obit/>​

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In 1963, Howard joined William C. Havard and Rudolf Heberle in co-authorship of the work, ''The Louisiana Elections of 1960,'' which focuses on (1) the 1959–1960 [[Governor|gubernatorial]] campaign, won by [[Jimmie Davis]] for his second nonconsecutive term, and (2) the following presidential contest, in which [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] easily won Louisiana's then ten [[electoral vote]]s. Topics covered include social and political background and socio-economic factors in voting. The authors determined, for instance, that Kennedy won in the state because he ran more strongly among the working class in South Louisiana, and [[Richard M. Nixon]] lost North Louisiana to [[Independent]] electors pledged to [[U.S. Senator]] Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. (1887-1966) of [[Virginia]]. Kennedy also ran considerably ahead of deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr. (1912-1964), Davis's opponent in the gubernatorial runoff election among key Democratic constituency groups. The authors also found that several sugar-producing parishes in south Louisiana which had backed [[Dwight Eisenhower]] in 1956 switched to Kennedy-Johnson in 1960.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-louisiana-elections-of-1960-by-william-c-havard-rudolf-heberle-perry-h-howard.jsp|title=''The Louisiana Elections of 1960''|publisher=questia.com|accessdate=February 9, 2010}}</ref>​

In 1963, Howard joined William C. Havard and Rudolf Heberle in co-authorship of the work, ''The Louisiana Elections of 1960,'' which focuses on (1) the 1959–1960 [[Governor|gubernatorial]] campaign, won by [[Jimmie Davis]] for his second nonconsecutive term, and (2) the following presidential contest, in which [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] easily won Louisiana's then ten [[electoral vote]]s. Topics covered include social and political background and socio-economic factors in voting. The authors determined, for instance, that Kennedy won in the state because he ran more strongly among the working class in South Louisiana, and [[Richard M. Nixon]] lost North Louisiana to [[Independent]] electors pledged to [[U.S. Senator]] Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. (1887-1966) of [[Virginia]]. Kennedy also ran considerably ahead of deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr. (1912-1964), Davis's opponent in the gubernatorial runoff election among key Democratic constituency groups. The authors also found that several sugar-producing parishes in south Louisiana which had backed [[Dwight Eisenhower]] in 1956 switched to Kennedy-Johnson in 1960.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-louisiana-elections-of-1960-by-william-c-havard-rudolf-heberle-perry-h-howard.jsp|title=''The Louisiana Elections of 1960''|publisher=questia.com|accessdate=February 9, 2010}}</ref>​