Ed Rand

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, US
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

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]

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. ^ a b "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.
Preceded by
At-large members:

Ben F. Holt
Lloyd George Teekell

Robert J. Munson
Louisiana State Representative for Rapides Parish
1960–1964
Succeeded by
At-large members:

William P. Polk
Robert J. Munson

Larry Parker