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'''Francis Carroll Grevemberg''' (June 4, 1914 – November 24, 2008),<ref name=obit>Kevin McGill, "Ex-State Police Chief Francis Grevemberg" ("Deaths"), ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,''
'''Francis Carroll Grevemberg''' (June 4, 1914 – November 24, 2008),<ref name=obit>Kevin McGill, "Ex-State Police Chief Francis Grevemberg" ("Deaths"), ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,''
November 26, 2008, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B4.</ref> was the superintendent of the [[Louisiana]] State Police from 1952 to 1955, best remembered for his fight against [[organized crime]].
November 26, 2008, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B4.</ref> was the superintendent of the [[Louisiana]] State Police from 1952 to 1955, best remembered for his fight against [[organized crime]].
Grevemberg was born in Biloxi, [[Mississippi]], to Francis Bartholomew "Frank" Grevemberg and the former Onita Coulon Jumonville deVilliers, members of two prominent families in south Louisiana. He twice ran for [[governor]], as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the 1955 party [[primary]] and as the [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee in the general election held on April 19, 1960.
Grevemberg was born in Biloxi, [[Mississippi]], to Francis Bartholomew "Frank" Grevemberg and the former Onita Coulon Jumonville deVilliers, members of two prominent families in south Louisiana. He twice ran for [[governor]], as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the 1955 party [[primary]] and as the [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee in the general election held on April 19, 1960.
==Military service==
A decorated [[United States Army]] officer in [[World War II]], Grevemberg served twenty-eight months in the European Theater of Operations. He made five amphibious landings and participated in nine combat campaigns. He went overseas as a captain commanding an anti-aircraft artillery battery in the 1st Infantry Division. He received a combat promotion from General [[George S. Patton, Jr.]], to the rank of [[major]] in [[Tunisia]], and five months later, at the age of twenty-nine, during the beachhead campaign in [[Sicily]], he received from [[General]] [[Omar Bradley]] a second combat promotion, to the rank of [[Lieutenant colonel].<ref name=obit/>
A decorated [[United States Army]] officer in [[World War II]], Grevemberg served twenty-eight months in the European Theater of Operations. He made five amphibious landings and participated in nine combat campaigns. He went overseas as a captain commanding an anti-aircraft artillery battery in the 1st Infantry Division. He received a combat promotion from General [[George S. Patton, Jr.]], to the rank of [[major]] in [[Tunisia]], and five months later, at the age of twenty-nine, during the beachhead campaign in [[Sicily]], he received from [[General]] [[Omar Bradley]] a second combat promotion, to the rank of [[Lieutenant colonel].<ref name=obit/>