Background
Patrick Thomson Caffery, Senior was born in Saint Mary Parish in South Louisiana. Pat Caffery was born at Haifleigh Plantation in Saint Mary Parish and reared in the parish seat of Franklin.
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Patrick Thomson Caffery, Senior was born in Saint Mary Parish in South Louisiana. Pat Caffery was born at Haifleigh Plantation in Saint Mary Parish and reared in the parish seat of Franklin.
Public schools. Franklin. Louisiana and University of Southwestern Louisiana (Bachelor of Arts, 1955). Louisiana State University (Bachelor of Laws, 1956).
Phi Delta Phi.
Associate and Managing Editor, Louisiana Law Review, 1955-1956. Member of Congress, United States. House of Representatives, 3rd Congressional District of Louisiana, 91st and 92nd Congresses, 1969-1973.
He was the eleventh of twelve children of Ralph Earl Caffery and the former Letitia Decuir. An Eagle Scout, he was selected in 1950 in a nationwide competition by the Boy Scouts of America to present a "State of the Nation" report in the White House to then United States. President Harry South. Truman. In 1956, he received a law degree from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
He was the managing editor of the Louisiana Law Review.
He later practiced for many years with later federal judges John Malcolm Duhé, Junior., and West. Eugene Davis in the law firm of Caffery, Duhé, and Davis. From 1958 to 1962, he was an assistant district attorney for the 16th Judicial District Court in Iberia Parish.
Caffery defeated fellow Democrat Edwin East. Willis, a 20-year incumbent, and a committee chairman, in the primary election held in August 1968. Two years earlier, Willis had survived the challenge waged by the Republican oilman Hall Lyons of Lafayette, the younger son of Grand Old Party state chairman Charlton Lyons.
Caffery ran without opposition in the general election in both 1968 and 1970.
Representative Caffery was once called upon to join United States. Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota to answer President Richard M. Nixon"s State of the Union message. In 1970 he was selected by National Broadcasting Company News as the outstanding freshman congressman of the 91st Congress. Caffery did not seek a third term in 1972 and returned to his law practice in New Iberia.
His seat then went Republican with the victory of future Governor David C. Treen, who had lost three House elections in the 1960s in Louisiana"s 2nd congressional district.
In defeating the Democrat J. Louis Watkins, Junior., of Houma in Terrebonne Parish, Treen became the first Republican to represent a Louisiana district in the United States. House since Hamilton Doctorate. Coleman held the Second District seat from 1889 to 1891. Caffery died in New Iberia at the age of eighty-one a week before Christmas, 2013.
He is interred at Beau Pre Cemetery in Jeanerette in Iberia Parish.
In 1957, he became a member of the New Iberia law firm of Helm, Simon, Caffery and Duhe. From 1988 to 1992, he served under Governor Buddy Roemer as a member of the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors.