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Joseph LeSage<br>

[[Joe LeSage]]<br>

Jackson Beauregard Davis<br>

Jackson Beauregard Davis<br>

[[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]]

[[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]]

==Background==

==Background==

Williamson was born in Vivian in northern Caddo Parish to [[Earl Williamson]] and the former Mamie Greer (1904–1948). He attended public schools and graduated in 1946 from Vivian High School, later North Caddo High School. He attended the Methodist-affiliatedCentenary Collge in Shreveport for a year. In 1945, while still in high school, he married his childhood sweetheart, the former Norma Herring of Vivian. They were wed for nearly fifty-seven years until her death of a sudden [[stroke]] in 2002. In 2003, when he retired from business, Williamson married the former Rachel Nelson Dunn, former wife of [[Forrest Dunn]], who like Williamson is a former Shreveport furniture store owner and a former Democratic member of the Caddo Parish School Board and the Louisiana House of Representatives (1976–1984). Dunn was later the administrator of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shreveport.[2]

Williamson was born in Vivian in northern Caddo Parish to [[Earl Williamson]] and the former Mamie Greer (1904–1948). He attended public schools and graduated in 1946 from Vivian High School, later North Caddo High School. He attended the Methodist-affiliated Centenary Collge in Shreveport for a year. In 1945, while still in high school, he married his childhood sweetheart, the former Norma Herring of Vivian. They were wed for nearly fifty-seven years until her death of a sudden [[stroke]] in 2002. In 2003, when he retired from business, Williamson married the former Rachel Nelson Dunn, former wife of [[Forrest Dunn]], who like Williamson is a former Shreveport furniture store owner and a former Democratic member of the Caddo Parish School Board and the Louisiana House of Representatives (1976–1984). Dunn was later the administrator of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shreveport.[2]

From 1949 to 1951, Williamson worked for General Electric in the building of the [[United States Navy]]'s atomic fusion plant in Schenectady, [[New York]]. This work made possible the nuclear-powered submarine advanced by Admiral Hyman J. Rickover. As he was engaged in essential civilian employment, he was deferred from the draft during the [[Korean War]].

From 1949 to 1951, Williamson worked for General Electric in the building of the [[United States Navy]]'s atomic fusion plant in Schenectady, [[New York]]. This work made possible the nuclear-powered submarine advanced by Admiral Hyman J. Rickover. As he was engaged in essential civilian employment, he was deferred from the draft during the [[Korean War]].