Parey Branton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetParey Branton
American politician
Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1918
Place of Birth: Shongaloo, Louisiana, United States
Date of Death: 15-Sep-2011
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Parey Branton
- Parey Pershing Branton Sr.
- (November 17, 1918 – September 15, 2011) was a businessman from Shongaloo, Louisiana, who was from 1960 to 1972 a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from what is now District 10 in Webster Parish.
- The district, which includes the parish seat of Minden in northwestern Louisiana, is now represented by the Democrat Gene Reynolds of Dubberly.In the mid-1960s, he called himself a "Wallace–Goldwater–free enterprise–right-to-profit Democrat" and printed that slogan for a time on his private vehicle.
- He refused to support the national Democratic presidential nominees during his tenure in the legislature.
- Instead, he endorsed Republican Barry M.
- Goldwater of Arizona in 1964 and former Alabama Governor George C.
- Wallace, Jr., in 1968.
- Wallace ran on the American Independent Party banner in a vain attempt to block the election of either Richard M.
- Nixon or Hubert Humphrey.
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