T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

 

ABSTRACT

 

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Sam Houston Jones                                     # 4700.0030

 

IDENTIFICATION: [1897-1978]  Former Governor of Louisiana, 1940-1944

 

INTERVIEWER: James Godfrey, Southern University graduate student

 

DATE:  February 1977                                                        FOCUS DATES: 1940-1948

 

ABSTRACT:

 

Tape 36

 

Political campaign of 1940; changes Governor Jones made while in office; Long machine--financially strong; reasons for running in the 1948 election; liberal about helping people; similarities and differences between Watergate and Louisiana politics; elimination of corruption; enemies tried to defeat Jones while running for his second term; Dr. George H. Jones determines the sentiment of the people in the first primary; the results of the 1940 Democratic primary; Cocrehan, Governor Jones' executive secretary; voted for by Scott, Louisiana; wife instrumental in Jones becoming governor; got along well with the first session of the first legislature; birth and family background; W. D. Cotton, state senator from North Louisiana, provides money for first bridge across the Calcalieu River; reform in the schools; building during the war years from 1940-1944.

 

 

TAPE: T 36 CASSETTE                                                                           TOTAL PLAYING TIME:

                                                               

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 28

 

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