Education
Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
United States representative politician
Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
In 1897, Kemp earned his legal degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge and began his law practice in Amite, the parish seat of Tangipahoa Parish, one of the Florida Parishes. Kempt worked for passage of Mississippi River flood-control legislation, the Great Mississippi Flood having occurred in 1927. In early December 1933, Governor Oscar K. Allen declared that a special election would be held eight days from the date of his announcement, and he named Kemp"s widow, the former Esther Edwards Conner, known as "Lallie" Kemp, as the "unopposed" Democratic nominee.
Many protested the announcement, and ballots were destroyed or burned in several locations within the district.
In January 1934, Mistress Kemp and Sanders presented their competing claims to the House.
The United States House Committee on Elections refused to seat either candidate, and the full House approved the committee report by voice vote. Lallie Kemp declined to run in the subsequent May 1 special election in which Sanders defeated Harry Doctorate. Wilson, the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry.
The Kemps" son, Bolivar Edwards Kemp, Junior., a son-in-law of Harry Wilson, served as the Attorney General of Louisiana from 1948 to 1952, between the two terms of Fred South. LeBlanc of Baton Rouge.
Lallie Kemp, who died in 1943, was appointed in 1937 by Governor Richard Leche to the Louisiana Hospital Board. She is honored by the naming of the medical center, a critical access hospital, in Independence. Bolivar East. Kemp was Episcopalian.
In 1910, he was appointed a member of the influential Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors.