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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>​

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>​

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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|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>​

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>​