Raymond Laborde Politician
Raymond Julian Laborde, I (born August 18, 1927), is a department store owner and a Democratic retired politician in his native Marksville, the seat of Avoyelles Parish in south Central Louisiana. He was the mayor of Marksville from 1958–1970 and thereafter served five terms from 1972–1992 in the Louisiana House of Representatives. He was a gubernatorial floor leader, Speaker Pro Tempore from 1982–1984, and in his last full term the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.After his election without opposition to a sixth term in the 1991 nonpartisan blanket primary, Laborde immediately resigned to become commissioner of administration in the fourth and final nonconsecutive term of his boyhood friend, Governor Edwin Washington Edwards.
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| office | President of the Louisiana Municipal Association Louisiana Commissioner of Administration Speaker Pro Tempore of the Louisiana House of Representatives Mayor of Marksville Louisiana Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 28 (Avoyelles Parish) |
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