Oramel H. Simpson

Politician

1870 – 1932

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Who was Oramel H. Simpson?

Oramel Hinckley Simpson was an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. He became the 39th Governor of Louisiana in 1926, upon the death of his predecessor, Henry L. Fuqua. He was defeated โ€“ he ran third in the critical Democratic primary โ€“ in his bid for a full term in 1928 by the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr., of Winnfield, the seat of Winn Parish.

Simpson was born in Washington, a small town in St. Landry Parish in south Louisiana to Samuel F. Simpson and the former Mary Esther Beer. He was educated at Centenary College, then in Jackson in East Feliciana Parish but later relocated to Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish. One of Simpson's classmates at Centenary in the 1890 graduating class was later State Senator Thomas Wafer Fuller, who was thereafter the Webster Parish school superintendent.

Simpson thereafter attended the Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. He was an attorney in New Orleans from 1893โ€“1899, when he briefly took the position of warrant clerk at the United States Mint there. In 1899, he married Louise Pichet of New Orleans. They had no children.

Thereafter, Simpson was the assistant secretary of the state Senate from 1900 until 1908, when he became secretary of the Senate, a post that he retained until his election as lieutenant governor in 1924. He was also the secretary of the Louisiana constitutional convention of 1921.

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Born
Mar 20, 1870
Washington
Also known as
  • Oramel Simpson
Spouses
Religion
  • Methodism
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Tulane University
  • Centenary College of Louisiana
  • Tulane University Law School
Lived in
  • Louisiana
Died
Nov 17, 1932
New Orleans

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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