T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection
ABSTRACT
INTERVIEWEE
NAME: Henry
L. Fuqua, Jr. COLLECTION: 4700.0021
IDENTIFICATION:
Son
of Henry L. Fuqua, governor of Louisiana 1924-26.
INTERVIEWER: Susie Crews, Assistant, LSU Recording Services
SERIES: University
History
INTERVIEW DATE: March 22, 1979
FOCUS
DATES: 1910-1930
ABSTRACT:
Tape 25
Family background; James Overton Fuqua home in Beauregard Town; early Baton Rouge recollections, burning of Cotton Compress, streetcars, ferry rides, 1912 flood; schooling, Mrs. Iranie Alexander; Harriet McGruder, father's half-sister; LSU (1924); Garig Hall; father's student days at LSU and after; railroad; good engineering training; father comes back to Baton Rouge; Fuqua hardware store; father appointed head of the penitentiary in Baton Rouge by Governor Pleasant (1916); "Jay Bird Land"; Angola; 1922 flood; riding horses in Angola; dances in Angola; Henry Fuqua, Sr. runs for governor; Fuqua saves Southern University; Dr. Felton Clark; Dr. Dalrymple and daughter Eleanor; Huey Long and Hewitt Bouanchaud ran against Fuqua, Sr., for governor (1924); dedication of new LSU campus; significance of May 19th; the Old Pavillion; death of Governor Fuqua; Fuqua used for selfish interests; gravel and plank roads; railroads; Thomas and Annie Boyd; Fuqua's mother; old governor's mansion antiques.
Tape 26
Identifying
photos: desk, cotton gin, hospital; Identifying photos of the sugar house on
Hope Farm, New Iberia; Additional photos of Hope Farm; photos of buildings on
Atchafalaya levees; building of Atchafalaya levees; railroad lines to Angola;
sister’s children; burning death of nephew; living in the Old Governor’s
Mansion; floor plan of the mansion; says mansion should have been modernized;
Fuqua’s father only one to ever bet Huey Long; Fuqua attended university with
Carl Weiss’ sister; end of interview.
TAPES: 2 (T25, T26) TOTAL PLAYING
TIME: 1 hour, 20 minutes
# PAGES: 54 page transcript of Tape 25, 1 page index of Tape 26
RESTRICTIONS: None