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Bussie's second wife was the former Frances "Fran" Martinez Nolan (born May 6, 1935),<ref>[http://find.intelius.com/search-summary-out.php?ReportType=1& Intelius People Search - Public Records, Background Checks & More<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> herself a political activist, who in the 1980s was a member of the [[Democratic National Committee]].<ref>November primary gets nod," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' June 2, 1983, p. 1.</ref> Fran Bussie's parents were John O. Martinez (1906–1990) and Althea Williams Martinez (1914–2003) of New Orleans.<ref>[http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi; http://web.archive.org/web/20071031083718/http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/obits/1/m-07.txt]</ref> Her brothers are Tony and Johnny Martinez.<ref name=obit/> Bussie's first wife, from whom he was [[divorce]]d, was the former Gertrude Foley (October 15, 1918 &ndash; September 16, 2005), who died in Round Rock in [[suburban]] Williamson County, Texas.<ref>[http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi; http://altlaw.org/v1/cases/855272]</ref>

Bussie's first wife, from whom he was [[divorce]]d, was the former Gertrude Foley (October 15, 1918 &ndash; September 16, 2005), who died in Round Rock in [[suburban]] Williamson County, Texas.<ref>[http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi; http://altlaw.org/v1/cases/855272]</ref> His second wife was the former Frances "Fran" Martinez Nolan (born May 6, 1935),<ref>[http://find.intelius.com/search-summary-out.php?ReportType=1& Intelius People Search - Public Records, Background Checks & More<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> herself a political activist, who in the 1980s was a member of the [[Democratic National Committee]].<ref>"November primary gets nod," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' June 2, 1983, p. 1.</ref> Fran Bussie's parents were John O. Martinez (1906–1990) and Althea Williams Martinez (1914–2003) of New Orleans.<ref>[http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi; http://web.archive.org/web/20071031083718/http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/obits/1/m-07.txt]</ref> Her brothers are Tony and Johnny Martinez.<ref name=obit/>  

Bussie was affiliated with the [[liberal]] wing of the Democratic Party. In 1964, he campaigned even in north Louisiana, a stronghold of the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. Senator]] [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]] that year, on behalf of President Lyndon Johnson, who lost that region by a large margin in the last election prior to passage of the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], which thereafter enfranchised tens of thousands of black voters, most of whom became automatic Democrats. Bussie was even closer to Johnson's [[Vice President of the United States|vice president]], [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] of [[Minnesota]], who had attended [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge during the 1930s but failed to win the state's [[electoral vote]]s in 1968.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,838210,00.html?iid=chix-sphere; http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/weberman/jcooper.htm]</ref>​

Bussie was affiliated with the [[liberal]] wing of the Democratic Party. In 1964, he campaigned even in north Louisiana, a stronghold of the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. Senator]] [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]] that year, on behalf of President Lyndon Johnson, who lost that region by a large margin in the last election prior to passage of the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], which thereafter enfranchised tens of thousands of black voters, most of whom became automatic Democrats. Bussie was even closer to Johnson's [[Vice President of the United States|vice president]], [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] of [[Minnesota]], who had attended [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge during the 1930s but failed to win the state's [[electoral vote]]s in 1968.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,838210,00.html?iid=chix-sphere; http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/weberman/jcooper.htm]</ref>​