Claude B. Duval
Politician
1914 – 1986
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Who was Claude B. Duval?
Claude Berwick Duval, I, was a Houma, Louisiana, attorney and a conservative Democratic state senator from Terrebonne and St. Mary parishes, having served from 1968 to 1980. He is best known for his profound oratory, his accommodation of Senate colleagues, his unsuccessful 1963-1964 campaign for lieutenant governor, and his opposition to the national holiday honoring civil rights advocate Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Born
- Oct 24, 1914
Houma - Also known as
- Claude Duval
- Spouses
- Religion
- Episcopal Church
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Louisiana
- Houma
- Died
- Mar 3, 1986
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on July 23, 2013
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