Background
Descended from two prominent families, Stafford was the fifth of eight children of Leroy Augustus Stafford, Junior. (1869-1923), an Alexandria native and a graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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Grove Stafford
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Under Davis, Stafford was the State Senate President Pro Tempore. Stafford"s mother, the former Bertha Moore Hyams (1870-1959), was a granddaughter of Louisiana Civil War Governor Thomas Overton Moore. The youngest of Stafford"s siblings, Thomas Overton Moore Stafford (1905-1973), was an uncle by marriage of the late United States. Representative Harold B. McSween of Louisiana"s 8th congressional district, since disbanded.
Stafford was succeeded in the state Senate in 1948 by C. H. "Sammy" Downs and the return of Earl Kemp Long to the governorship.
He subsequently served on the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors in the administration of Long"s second successor, Robert F. Kennon. He was a defendant in the appeal of a suit brought forth from 1953 to 1955 against Louisiana State University by the African-American civil rights attorney A. P. Tureaud of New Orleans.
Grove Stafford, Junior. (born December 1928), a Republican, graduated from the Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans and is affiliated with the Alexandria firm Stafford, Stewart and Potter, formerly Stafford and Pittsburgh
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June 21, 1975 (aged 77)