St. Clair Adams papers, 1934-1965 (bulk 1939-1940)
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Leche, Richard W. (Richard Webster), 1898-1965
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Attorney, politician, and governor of Louisiana (1936-1939). From the description of Genealogical papers, 1936-1986. (New Orleans Public Library). WorldCat record id: 18770596 Richard W. Leche graduated from Loyola University Law School in New Orleans, La., in 1923. He managed Louisiana Governor Huey Pierce Long's campaign for the United States Senate in 1930, was secretary to Long's successor as governor, Oscar K. Allen, and was elected governor in his own right as the Long...
Adams, St. Clair, 1878-1945.
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New Orleanian Richard W. Leche, Louisiana governor from 1936 until his resignation in 1939, was later charged with bribery, contempt, income tax evasion, mail fraud, oil fraud and conspiracy to defraud the state. He was convicted of mail fraud and was sentenced in 1940 to ten years in Atlanta federal prison. He was parolled in 1945 and given a full pardon by President Truman in 1952. Most of the papers in the collection concern cases in which St. Clair Adams, Sr. (1878-1945) defended Richard Lec...
Louisiana. Governor, 1936-1939. (Richard W. Leche)
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