Background
Rambin was the son of the former Marjorie Pennington (1914-2001), a Baptist and a schoolteacher, and William Robert Rambin, Senior (1912-1986), a Roman Catholic.
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Rambin was the son of the former Marjorie Pennington (1914-2001), a Baptist and a schoolteacher, and William Robert Rambin, Senior (1912-1986), a Roman Catholic.
lieutenant is unclear when the Rambins moved from Natchitoches Parish to Monroe, but Rambin graduated in 1959 from Neville High School in Monroe. In 1965, he obtained his Master of Business Administration from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Rambin was elected in March 2000 but died in office of liver cancer after having served for only eleven-and-a-half months. The senior Rambins were natives and at time residents of Goldonna in Natchitoches Parish, where they are interred at Goldonna Cemetery. In her later years Mistress
Rambin was living in Monroe, where she died five months after son Melvin"s passing, but she had been residing in Goldonna at the time of her husband"s death in 1986.
Rambin has a surviving older brother, William R. Rambin, Junior. (born c 1939), of Monroe.
In 1963, he received his bachelor"s degree from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, when the institution was known as Northeast Louisiana State College. Over the course of his career, Rambin was an officer of several financial institutions, including the Louisiana National Bank in Baton Rouge, Premier Bank, and Bank One in Northeast Louisiana.
In 1999, Rambin was appointed by Republican Governor Murphy J. Foster, Junior., as a regent of the Louisiana Board of Regents of Higher Education.
Rambin in 2000 unseated Abe East. Pierce, III, a Democrat and the first of thus far two African-American mayors of Monroe since Reconstruction. According to Pierce, his supporters were complacent and assumed that he would be reelected to a second term in 2000 and did not therefore vote in large numbers at all. Rambin"s supporters, mostly whites and the numerical minority of the Monroe population, conversely organized with discretion at the grass roots.
Glen Robinson (born c 1954), a former car salesman and later the information officer for the Ouachita Parish Sheriff"s Department, was the chairman of the highly organized Rambin campaign.
The Grand Old Party used horns and sirens to stir up interest in their candidate and asked supporters to turn on porch lights after they had cast their ballots so that the campaign could easily target persons in friendly neighborhoods who had not yet voted to encourage them to go to the polls in the final hours. The final tabulation was 9,042 (538 percent) to Pierce"s 7,219 (43 percent).
The remaining 3.2 percent of the vote was divided among three other candidates. After Rambin"s death, the city council chose District 5 member Jamie Mayo, an African American businessman, to serve as interim mayor.
In Octobert 2001, Mayo was elected to fill the remainder of Rambin"s term.
The Rambin children are Ashley A. Rambin Gordon, Ryan C. Rambin, and Sharon L. Rambin Beary. Rambin died in office as mayor of Monroe at the age of fifty-nine. He is interred not in Monroe but at Roselawn Memorial Park in Baton Rouge.
Mayoral election day coincided with the presidential primaries in which First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore and George West. Bush won large majorities in Ouachita Parish on the path toward their party nominations.
Rambin was a lifetime member of the Men"s Club of Catholic High School in Baton Rouge.
