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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Maurice Riemer Calhoun, Sr.
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator for<br>DeSoto and Caddo parishes (now District 38)
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| term_start=1944
| term_end=1952
| preceded=Lloyd Hendrick<br>
[[Joe T. Cawthorn]]
| succeeded=[[B. H. "Johnny" Rogers]]<br>
Charles Emery Tooke, Jr.
| birth_date=April 5, 1909
| birth_place=Place of birth missing
| death_date=August 4, 1994 (aged 85)
| death_place=Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, USA
| resting_place=
| residence=Mansfield, Louisiana
| religion=
| alma_mater=Centenary College of Louisiana
| occupation=[[Business]]man; [[Farmer]]
| spouse=(1) Clista Andrews Calhoun (married 1933-1952, her death)<br>
(2) Evelyn Hope Ryder Calhoun
| children=From first marriage:<br>
Riemer Calhoun, Jr.<br>
Carolyn C. Huckabay<br>
Thomas Allen Calhoun<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Murry A. and Ruby Calhoun
}}
'''Maurice Riemer Calhoun, Sr.''', known as '''Riemer Calhoun''' (April 5, 1909 – August 4, 1994),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gsfn=Rhymer&gsln=Calhoun&gss=angs-g&rank=1&gl=allgs&gst=|title=M. Riemer Calhoun|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] from Mansfield, [[Louisiana]], who represented DeSoto and Caddo parishes in the state Senate from 1944 to 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-224|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=December 26, 2020}}</ref>
After he left the Senate, Calhoun in October 1952 managed the DeSoto Parish campaign for [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], the successful [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. President|presidential]] nominee. Eisenhower received 57.8 percent of the vote in DeSoto Parish<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ent.stparchive.com/Archive/ENT/ENT10172002p13.php|title=Gleanings|author=Sarah Stokes|publisher=''Mansfiel (Louisiana) Enterprise-Progress''|date=October 17, 1952|page=13|accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> but lost the [[electoral vote]] of Louisiana.
==Family background==
Calhoun was the second youngest of five children born to Murry A. (born c. 1873) and Ruby Calhoun (born c. 1877). He was reared in Ward 4 of DeSoto Parish. A [[Farming|farmer]] and [[real estate]]broker, he graduated in 1930 from the [[Methodist]]-affiliated Centenary Collegein [[Shreveport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://archive.org/stream/thisiscentenary19421949/thisiscentenary19421949_djvu.txt|title=This Is Centenary: Alumni News|date=March 1942|publisher=archive.org|accessdate=July 25, 2015}}</ref>
Little is known about Calhoun's career, but considerable information is available about his family. Calhoun's first wife, the former Clista Andrews (c. 1914 – February 1952), a native of [[Arkansas]], was reared in [[Texarkana, Texas|Texarkana]], [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://clistacalhouncenter.com/clista-andrews-calhoun.html|title=Clista Andrews Calhoun|publisher=clistacalhouncenter.com|accessdate=October 27, 2014}}</ref> Clista was orphaned at the age of ten.<ref name=clistaac/> The couple had a daughter, Carolyn Huckabay (born March 9, 1935), a Shreveport real estate broker]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/voter.aspx|title=Carolyn Huckabay, March 1935|publisher=[[Louisiana Secretary of State]]|accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> and two sons, both businessmen, Riemer Calhoun, Jr. (born 1937), of Mansfield, and Thomas Allen "Tommy" Calhoun (born May 1943) of Shreveport.<ref name=clistaac/> Calhoun's second wife and surviving widow is Evelyn Hope Ryder Calhoun (born February 1924).<ref name=mfcollege>{{cite web|url=http://www.claitors.com/veach/cajunsv1n3.htm|title=Some items from the Josh Logan Collection|publisher=claitors.com|accessdate=October 27, 2014}}</ref>
When the former Mansfield Female College, which had been constructed during the early 1850s, was offered for sale by the town of Mansfield, the Calhouns purchased the property. They made extensive renovations to the main building, removed the top two floors, and converted the structure into their own family home. In 2002, Hope Calhoun and the Calhoun children from the first marriage donated the building and grounds for use as a state museum. After a $1.2 million reconstruction, the building, known as the Clista A. Calhoun Center, opened in September 2012. A foundation fund is also established in Clista's memory.<ref name=clistaac>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfnla.org/give-strategically/giving-stories/clista-andrews-calhoun-center|title=Clista Andrews Calhoun Center|publisher=cfnla.org|accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> The mothers of both Riemer Calhoun, Sr., and Hope Calhoun attended the Mansfield Female College.<ref name=mfcollege/>
In June 1966, Calhoun became an original stockholder in the firm Modern Electronics, Inc., which manufactured equipment for use in pecan-shelling plants. In 1971, Tommy Calhoun acquired the shares of the company owned by his father and his sister to obtain majority ownership. The company underwent reorganization after the death of a partner in 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.me-equip.com/history.php|title=Supporting the Pecan Industry: Company History|publisher=me-equip.com|accessdate=October 27, 2014}}</ref>
In 1990, Carolyn Huckabay, then married to Douglas Whitehurst and known as Carolyn C. Whitehurst, ran as a Republican candidate for [[mayor]] of Shreveport, but she was eliminated with 7.5 percent of the vote in a 12-candidate field by another Republican woman, Hazel F. Beard, who won the runoff election to become the first woman mayor of Shreveport and the first of only two Republican mayors of the city since [[Reconstruction]].<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 6, 1990.</ref>
Older son Riemer Calhoun, Jr., developed and managed hundreds of apartment complexes throughout Louisiana and the American South.<ref name=stimes>"Mansfield businessman admits widespread fraud," ''The Shreveport Times,'' March 27, 2003.</ref> He was from 1990 to 1992 the president of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America, the first person from Louisiana to head the organization. In his capacity as president, Calhoun established an outreach program to enhance communications. He adopted the motton, "Tell the Longhorn story".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tlbaa.org/tlbaa/history.html|title=History of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America|publisher=tlbaa.org|accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> Calhoun, Jr., is married to the former Marcia Copeland (born 1938), the daughter of Nile Bailey Copeland (1909-1953) and Marian Smith Copeland Cooper (1913-2002) of Mansfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=68900832|title=Marian Smith Copeland Cooper obituary|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 13, 2014}}</ref>
In 2003, Calhoun, Jr., pleaded guilty to bilking the U.S. government and various investors out of $2.5 million;<ref name=stimes/> specifically, two counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit equity skimming. He was fined $1 million and served two five-year prison sentences consecutively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-5th-circuit/1104651.html|title=United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. USA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Maurice Riemer CALHOUN, Jr., Defendant-Appellant|publisher=caselaw.findlaw.com|date=
August 26, 2004|accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> Some of Calhoun's investors faced the loss of [[Internal Revenue Service]] tax credits received through the illegal business practices.<ref name=stimes/> Calhoun was released from the Bureau of Prisons on February 19, 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/|title=Maurice Riemer Calhoun, Jr.|publisher=bop.gov|accessdate=December 26, 2020}}</ref>
The senior Calhoun died in 1994 at the age of eighty-five. His burial site is unknown.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Calhoun, Riemer}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
| name=Maurice Riemer Calhoun, Sr.
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator for<br>DeSoto and Caddo parishes (now District 38)
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| term_start=1944
| term_end=1952
| preceded=Lloyd Hendrick<br>
[[Joe T. Cawthorn]]
| succeeded=[[B. H. "Johnny" Rogers]]<br>
Charles Emery Tooke, Jr.
| birth_date=April 5, 1909
| birth_place=Place of birth missing
| death_date=August 4, 1994 (aged 85)
| death_place=Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, USA
| resting_place=
| residence=Mansfield, Louisiana
| religion=
| alma_mater=Centenary College of Louisiana
| occupation=[[Business]]man; [[Farmer]]
| spouse=(1) Clista Andrews Calhoun (married 1933-1952, her death)<br>
(2) Evelyn Hope Ryder Calhoun
| children=From first marriage:<br>
Riemer Calhoun, Jr.<br>
Carolyn C. Huckabay<br>
Thomas Allen Calhoun<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Murry A. and Ruby Calhoun
}}
'''Maurice Riemer Calhoun, Sr.''', known as '''Riemer Calhoun''' (April 5, 1909 – August 4, 1994),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gsfn=Rhymer&gsln=Calhoun&gss=angs-g&rank=1&gl=allgs&gst=|title=M. Riemer Calhoun|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] from Mansfield, [[Louisiana]], who represented DeSoto and Caddo parishes in the state Senate from 1944 to 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-224|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=December 26, 2020}}</ref>
After he left the Senate, Calhoun in October 1952 managed the DeSoto Parish campaign for [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], the successful [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. President|presidential]] nominee. Eisenhower received 57.8 percent of the vote in DeSoto Parish<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ent.stparchive.com/Archive/ENT/ENT10172002p13.php|title=Gleanings|author=Sarah Stokes|publisher=''Mansfiel (Louisiana) Enterprise-Progress''|date=October 17, 1952|page=13|accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> but lost the [[electoral vote]] of Louisiana.
==Family background==
Calhoun was the second youngest of five children born to Murry A. (born c. 1873) and Ruby Calhoun (born c. 1877). He was reared in Ward 4 of DeSoto Parish. A [[Farming|farmer]] and [[real estate]]broker, he graduated in 1930 from the [[Methodist]]-affiliated Centenary Collegein [[Shreveport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://archive.org/stream/thisiscentenary19421949/thisiscentenary19421949_djvu.txt|title=This Is Centenary: Alumni News|date=March 1942|publisher=archive.org|accessdate=July 25, 2015}}</ref>
Little is known about Calhoun's career, but considerable information is available about his family. Calhoun's first wife, the former Clista Andrews (c. 1914 – February 1952), a native of [[Arkansas]], was reared in [[Texarkana, Texas|Texarkana]], [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://clistacalhouncenter.com/clista-andrews-calhoun.html|title=Clista Andrews Calhoun|publisher=clistacalhouncenter.com|accessdate=October 27, 2014}}</ref> Clista was orphaned at the age of ten.<ref name=clistaac/> The couple had a daughter, Carolyn Huckabay (born March 9, 1935), a Shreveport real estate broker]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/voter.aspx|title=Carolyn Huckabay, March 1935|publisher=[[Louisiana Secretary of State]]|accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> and two sons, both businessmen, Riemer Calhoun, Jr. (born 1937), of Mansfield, and Thomas Allen "Tommy" Calhoun (born May 1943) of Shreveport.<ref name=clistaac/> Calhoun's second wife and surviving widow is Evelyn Hope Ryder Calhoun (born February 1924).<ref name=mfcollege>{{cite web|url=http://www.claitors.com/veach/cajunsv1n3.htm|title=Some items from the Josh Logan Collection|publisher=claitors.com|accessdate=October 27, 2014}}</ref>
When the former Mansfield Female College, which had been constructed during the early 1850s, was offered for sale by the town of Mansfield, the Calhouns purchased the property. They made extensive renovations to the main building, removed the top two floors, and converted the structure into their own family home. In 2002, Hope Calhoun and the Calhoun children from the first marriage donated the building and grounds for use as a state museum. After a $1.2 million reconstruction, the building, known as the Clista A. Calhoun Center, opened in September 2012. A foundation fund is also established in Clista's memory.<ref name=clistaac>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfnla.org/give-strategically/giving-stories/clista-andrews-calhoun-center|title=Clista Andrews Calhoun Center|publisher=cfnla.org|accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> The mothers of both Riemer Calhoun, Sr., and Hope Calhoun attended the Mansfield Female College.<ref name=mfcollege/>
In June 1966, Calhoun became an original stockholder in the firm Modern Electronics, Inc., which manufactured equipment for use in pecan-shelling plants. In 1971, Tommy Calhoun acquired the shares of the company owned by his father and his sister to obtain majority ownership. The company underwent reorganization after the death of a partner in 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.me-equip.com/history.php|title=Supporting the Pecan Industry: Company History|publisher=me-equip.com|accessdate=October 27, 2014}}</ref>
In 1990, Carolyn Huckabay, then married to Douglas Whitehurst and known as Carolyn C. Whitehurst, ran as a Republican candidate for [[mayor]] of Shreveport, but she was eliminated with 7.5 percent of the vote in a 12-candidate field by another Republican woman, Hazel F. Beard, who won the runoff election to become the first woman mayor of Shreveport and the first of only two Republican mayors of the city since [[Reconstruction]].<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 6, 1990.</ref>
Older son Riemer Calhoun, Jr., developed and managed hundreds of apartment complexes throughout Louisiana and the American South.<ref name=stimes>"Mansfield businessman admits widespread fraud," ''The Shreveport Times,'' March 27, 2003.</ref> He was from 1990 to 1992 the president of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America, the first person from Louisiana to head the organization. In his capacity as president, Calhoun established an outreach program to enhance communications. He adopted the motton, "Tell the Longhorn story".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tlbaa.org/tlbaa/history.html|title=History of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America|publisher=tlbaa.org|accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> Calhoun, Jr., is married to the former Marcia Copeland (born 1938), the daughter of Nile Bailey Copeland (1909-1953) and Marian Smith Copeland Cooper (1913-2002) of Mansfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=68900832|title=Marian Smith Copeland Cooper obituary|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 13, 2014}}</ref>
In 2003, Calhoun, Jr., pleaded guilty to bilking the U.S. government and various investors out of $2.5 million;<ref name=stimes/> specifically, two counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit equity skimming. He was fined $1 million and served two five-year prison sentences consecutively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-5th-circuit/1104651.html|title=United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. USA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Maurice Riemer CALHOUN, Jr., Defendant-Appellant|publisher=caselaw.findlaw.com|date=
August 26, 2004|accessdate=October 26, 2014}}</ref> Some of Calhoun's investors faced the loss of [[Internal Revenue Service]] tax credits received through the illegal business practices.<ref name=stimes/> Calhoun was released from the Bureau of Prisons on February 19, 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/|title=Maurice Riemer Calhoun, Jr.|publisher=bop.gov|accessdate=December 26, 2020}}</ref>
The senior Calhoun died in 1994 at the age of eighty-five. His burial site is unknown.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Calhoun, Riemer}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]