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- Vail_M._Delony abstract "Vail Montgomery Delony (January 5, 1901 – November 18, 1967) was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, having served from 1940 until his death in office. He was also Speaker of the chamber from 1964 until his death.Delony was born in Lake Providence, where he resided all of his life, to Tobias Stephens Delony and the former Helen Montgomery. On December 26, 1926, he wed the former Elizabeth Louise Miller (since deceased) of Greenville in Washington County in western Mississippi. The couple had two daughters, Elizabeth Delony Ree and Vail Delony Baldridge (born 1937) of Rayville, the seat of Richland Parish. She is the widow of the Episcopal priest William E. Baldridge, Sr. (1927–2007), a native of Dyersburg, Tennessee.Delony was a delegate to the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which nominated the Adlai Stevenson-Estes Kefauver ticket, the first party slate to lose the electoral votes of Louisiana since Reconstruction.Delony was a segregationist during his political career but acknowledged how the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had given African Americans a 500-vote edge over whites in Lake Providence. Delony predicted that blacks did not \"have the capacity\" to assume political control of East Carroll Parish at that time and would not vote as a bloc unless organized to do so. Delony said that he would welcome black support but would \"not stoop to entice\" minority voters with political promises.On March 25, 1968, Governor John J. McKeithen, a former state House member from Columbia in Caldwell Parish, who had tapped Delony as Speaker, dedicated the Vail M. Delony Data Processing Center at the Louisiana Department of Public Safety in Baton Rouge.".
- Vail_M._Delony birthDate "1901-01-05".
- Vail_M._Delony birthPlace East_Carroll_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony birthPlace Lake_Providence,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony birthPlace Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony birthPlace United_States.
- Vail_M._Delony birthYear "1901".
- Vail_M._Delony deathDate "1967-11-18".
- Vail_M._Delony deathYear "1967".
- Vail_M._Delony office "Louisiana State Representative for East Carroll Parish".
- Vail_M._Delony office "Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives".
- Vail_M._Delony party Democratic_Party_(United_States).
- Vail_M._Delony termPeriod Vail_M._Delony__1.
- Vail_M._Delony termPeriod Vail_M._Delony__2.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageID "28755363".
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageLength "5941".
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageOutDegree "55".
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageRevisionID "616517460".
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink 1956_Democratic_National_Convention.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Adlai_Stevenson_II.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink African_Americans.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Baton_Rouge,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Caldwell_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Category:1901_births.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Category:1967_deaths.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Category:Louisiana_Democrats.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Category:Members_of_the_Louisiana_House_of_Representatives.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_East_Carroll_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Category:Speakers_of_the_Louisiana_House_of_Representatives.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Charles_L._Vining,_Jr..
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Chicago.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Claiborne_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Columbia,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Democratic_Party_(United_States).
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Dyersburg,_Tennessee.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink East_Carroll_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Electoral_college.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Episcopal_Church_(United_States).
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Estes_Kefauver.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Greenville,_Mississippi.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink J._Thomas_Jewell.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink John_McKeithen.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink John_Sidney_Garrett.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Providence,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Governors_of_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Louisiana_House_of_Representatives.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Louisiana_State_Legislature.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Mississippi.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Pointe_Coupee_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Racial_segregation.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Rayville,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Reconstruction_Era.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Richland_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Speaker_(politics).
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- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Tennessee.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLink Washington_County,_Mississippi.
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLinkText "Vail M. Delony (D)".
- Vail_M._Delony wikiPageWikiLinkText "Vail M. Delony".
- Vail_M._Delony after Charles_L._Vining,_Jr..
- Vail_M._Delony after John_Sidney_Garrett.
- Vail_M._Delony before J._Thomas_Jewell.
- Vail_M._Delony before "C. H. Hill".
- Vail_M._Delony birthDate "1901-01-05".
- Vail_M._Delony birthPlace East_Carroll_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony birthPlace Lake_Providence,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony birthPlace Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony birthPlace United_States.
- Vail_M._Delony children "Elizabeth Delony Ree".
- Vail_M._Delony children "Vail Delony Baldridge".
- Vail_M._Delony dateOfBirth "1901-01-05".
- Vail_M._Delony dateOfDeath "1967-11-18".
- Vail_M._Delony deathDate "1967-11-18".
- Vail_M._Delony name "Delony, Vail Montgomery".
- Vail_M._Delony name "Vail Montgomery Delony".
- Vail_M._Delony office Louisiana_State_Legislature.
- Vail_M._Delony party Democratic_Party_(United_States).
- Vail_M._Delony placeOfBirth East_Carroll_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony placeOfBirth Lake_Providence,_Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony placeOfBirth Louisiana.
- Vail_M._Delony placeOfBirth United_States.
- Vail_M._Delony preceded J._Thomas_Jewell.
- Vail_M._Delony preceded "C. H. Hill".
- Vail_M._Delony shortDescription "American politician".
- Vail_M._Delony spouse "Elizabeth Louise Miller Delony".
- Vail_M._Delony succeeded Charles_L._Vining,_Jr..
- Vail_M._Delony succeeded John_Sidney_Garrett.
- Vail_M._Delony termEnd "1967".
- Vail_M._Delony termStart "1940".
- Vail_M._Delony termStart "1964".
- Vail_M._Delony title "Louisiana State Representative from East Carroll Parish Vail Montgomery Delony".
- Vail_M._Delony title "Speakers of the Louisiana House of Representatives Vail Montgomery Delony".
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