Lloyd Franklin Wheat | |
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Louisiana State Senator for Natchitoches and Red River parishes | |
In office 1948–1952 |
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Preceded by | A. A. Fredericks |
Succeeded by | Sylvan Friedman |
Personal details | |
Born |
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April 27, 1923
Political party | Democratic |
Residence |
(1) Coushatta |
Alma mater | Louisiana State University |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Religion | Protestant |
Military service | |
Service/branch | United States Army |
Battles/wars | World War II |
(1) Coushatta
Red River Parish
Louisiana, USA
(2) Metairie
Lloyd Franklin Wheat (born April 27, 1923) is a retired lawyer from Metairie in Jefferson Parish in suburban New Orleans, Louisiana,who served while in his twenties from 1948 to 1952 in the Louisiana State Senate. He represented a combined district in northwestern Louisiana encompassing his then home base of Red River Parish River along with the much larger neighboring .
As a resident of Coushatta, the parish seat of Red River Parish, Wheat was elected at the age of twenty-four to succeed veteran state Senator A. A. Fredericks, a former president of Northwestern State University and an administrative assistant and political ally of Governor Earl Kemp Long. Wheat was unseated after one term in office at the age of twenty-eight in the 1952 Democratic primary election by the wealthy landowner Sylvan Friedman of Natchez in south Natchitoches Parish. Friedman was an outgoing state representative and a long-term supporter of Governor Earl Long.