Angelo Roppolo

Background

Roppolo was born to an Italian-American couple, Carlo and Johanna Roppolo, Senior, in the Algiers section of New Orleans.

Career

He subsequently relocated to Shreveport with his family at a young age. He had three grandchildren. Roppolo humorously called himself a "nickel politician" who was "running for the city limits".

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He lived it, loved it and was incredibly good at lieutenant Over his time, he consulted and led well over a hundred successful political campaigns one of which in 1978 involved the election of the first African American, Paul Lynch, to Caddo District Court.

His office at 425 Crocket in Shreveport served as headquarters for some campaign meetings - the walls of his main office abundantly and stunningly adorned with push cards spanning a half century.. always had a pot of coffee on the stove for the dozen or so friends to stop by, check in, and discuss the hot topics of the day.

On many Fridays there were large lunch gatherings, sometimes as many as a hundred people – businessmen, elected officials including sheriffs, district attorneys, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, judges, clerks of court, tax assessors, marshals, and dozens of police officers.

Roppolo spent his last days in hospice care at the Promise Home in Shreveport, where he died three days past his 92nd birthday. Services were held at Saint John Berchmans Cathedral in Shreveport. Interment followed at Forest Park West in Shreveport.

Among his final visitors were Judge Scott Crichton, Governors Edwin West. Edwards and Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne, State Senator Barrow Peacock, United States. Representative John C. Fleming of Louisiana"s 4th congressional district, and former Caddo Parish Sheriff Don Hathaway.

In 2013, Roppolo was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield. Just prior to his death, Roppolo learned that he would be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Achievements

• Besides being an accomplished and successful businessman, he was also an astute and savvy political consultant. Foreign his early advocacy of civil rights, Roppolo on January 11, 2010, received the Martin Luther King, Junior., Award at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish. On June 12, 2012, three weeks before Roppolo"s death and seven months before his actual induction into the Hall of Fame, the Shreveport City Council passed a resolution congratulating him on this achievement.

Membership

An active Roman Catholic, Roppolo was with Judge Charles A. Marvin and Shreveport attorney Don Miller (1934-2009) one of the founding members of the Shreveport Red Mass Society, which holds an annual service for lawyers, judges, and law enforcement personnel to highlight the connection between faith in God and the rule of law.

Connections

Friend:

Scott Crichton