Ed Rand

Warren Ed Rand (February 4, 1920 March 26, 1999), was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Alexandria, Louisiana, who served a single term from 1960 to 1964 during the administration of Governor Jimmie Davis.[1]

Warren Ed Rand
Louisiana State Representative
for Rapides Parish
In office
1960–1964
Preceded byAt-large members:

Ben F. Holt
Lloyd George Teekell

Robert J. Munson
Succeeded byAt-large members:

Larry Parker
Robert J. Munson

William P. Polk
Personal details
Born(1920-02-04)February 4, 1920
Alexandria
Rapides Parish
Louisiana, USA
DiedMarch 26, 1999(1999-03-26) (aged 79)
Alexandria, Louisiana
Resting placeGreenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, Louisiana
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseFlorence Marie Robinson Rand
RelationsWhitfield Jack (brother-in-law)
ChildrenEllen R. Thrash
Two grandsons
Residence(s)(1) Alexandria, Louisiana
(2) Lake St. John, Concordia Parish
Alma materUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette
OccupationBusinessman

Rand graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette. He was a past president of the Alexandria Jaycees and a long-term member of the First United Methodist Church on Jackson Street in Alexandria. He was engaged in the real estate and life insurance businesses in Alexandria. He had a second residence on an oxbow lake of the Mississippi River, Lake St. John, in Concordia Parish in eastern Louisiana.[2]

At the time Rand served his single term in the legislature, Rapides Parish had three at-large members of the lower House. Single-member districts did not begin until 1972, with the first administration of Governor Edwin Edwards.[1]

Rand was a son of Dr. Paul King Rand, Sr. (1888-1956), and the former Ellen Blythe White (1890-1972). His sister, Frances Abigail (1914-1974), was married to the Shreveport attorney Whitfield Jack.[3][4] Rand married the former Florence Marie Robinson (1925-2005); the couple had a daughter, Ellen R. Thrash of Baton Rouge, and two grandsons. They are interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, Louisiana.

References

  1. "Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012" (PDF). house.louisiana.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 6, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
  2. Bessie Ferrell, Obituary of Warren Ed Rand, Concordia Sentinel, March 31, 1999.
  3. "Warren Ed Rand". Ancestry.com. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  4. ""Happy Landing"". Clementinehunterartist.com. Retrieved March 27, 2015.


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