LeRoy Smallenberger
| LeRoy Cullom Smallenberger | |
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| State Chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party |
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In office 1960–1964 |
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| Succeeded by | Charlton Lyons |
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| Born |
November 13, 1912 Peoria, Illinois, USA |
| Died | July 6, 2002 (aged 89) Shreveport, Caddo Parish Louisiana |
| Spouse(s) |
(1) Thelma Ferne Mounce Smallenberger |
| Children | One child |
| Parents | LeRoy Charles and Doris Schnert Smallenberger |
| Residence | Shreveport, Louisiana |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
(1) Thelma Ferne Mounce Smallenberger
LeRoy Cullom Smallenberger (November 13, 1912 – July 6, 2002) was a lawyer and judge in Shreveport, Louisiana, who was from 1960 to 1964 the state chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party.
Little is known of Smallenberger's early years. He was a native of Peoria, Illinois, a son of LeRoy Charles and Doris Schnert Smallenberger. According to the website The Political Graveyard, Smallenberger came to Shreveport prior to 1948. In 1956, he was practicing law in his Smallenberger, Eatman & Morgan firm. He was an alternate delegate to both the 1948 Republican National Convention, held in Philadelphia, and the 1952 conclave, which met in Chicago.
Prior to the state chairmanship, Smallenberger, a Republican since 1938, had been GOP chairman in Louisiana's 4th congressional district, then represented by the Democrat Overton Brooks. Beginning in 1988, the district switched to Republican representation. In 1959, Smallenberger and the Louisiana national committeeman, George W. Reese, Jr., of New Orleans, the party's 1960 nominee for the United States Senate against Allen J. Ellender, became involved in an intraparty feud with Tom Stagg, a Shreveport Republican lawyer and subsequent judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, and Charles T. Beaird, the later publisher of the defunct Shreveport Journal. Stagg objected when Reese endorsed, with Smallenberger in agreement, a slate of candidates for party position on both the state and parish committees. Stagg described Reese as having attempted to assemble a group of "yes-men" and had hence "earned the enmity of a large number of fair-minded Republicans". Reese, however, defended his endorsements, most of whom won their primary races, on the premise that he as a statewide party leader was obligated to recommend suitable candidates to rank-and-file voters. At the time, Reese appointed Smallenberger as the "assistant national committeeman for North Louisiana".
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