Cleveland Dear [SEP] position held
Cleveland Dear
Cleveland Dear, Sr. (August 22, 1888 – December 30, 1950), was a two-term U.S. representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district, since disbanded, a district attorney, a state court judge, and a candidate in 1936 for governor of Louisiana. A Democrat from Alexandria, Louisiana, he was allied with the anti-Long political faction.
Background.
Dear was the youngest of eleven children born to Mississippi natives James Mackburn Dear (1846–1925) and the former Sarah Jane
too but withdrew to support Dear. His withdrawal came too late to remove his name from the ballot, and Spencer polled nearly two thousand votes.
Dear then resumed the practice of law and was subsequently appointed judge in the Ninth Judicial District, a position which he retained with subsequent successful elections until his death. His last judicial nomination was in the Democratic primary held in August 1948.
He died in Alexandria and is interred at nearby Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, along with son Cleveland, Jr.
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