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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Bill Dodd, Annise Parker, Allison Kolb, John Sharp, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, Bob Bullock, James J. Saxon, Eugene Ludwig, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Hugh McCulloch, John D. Hawke, Jr., Roy R. Theriot, Susan Combs, George H. Sheppard, Hyman A. Pressman, John C. Dugan, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor, Edward S. Lacey, Florida Comptroller, Robert S. Calvert, John Jay Knox, Matthew Boxer, Freeman Clarke, Richard Cutts, William Ambrose Wright, C. T. Conover, William B. Camp, William L. Trenholm, William Barret Ridgely, Lawrence O. Murray, Henry W. Cannon, John G. Heimann, Robert L. Clarke, New Jersey State Comptroller, Preston Delano, Hiland R. Hulburd, James H. Eckels, James E. Smith, D. R. Crissinger, John W. Pole, John Skelton Williams, Joseph W. McIntosh, Ray M. Gidney. Excerpt: William Joseph "Bill" Dodd (November 25, 1909 - November 16, 1991) held five important positions in Louisiana government in the mid-twentieth century, including the offices of state representative, lieutenant governor, state auditor, president and member of the State Board of Education, and state education superintendent, but he never achieved his ultimate goal: the state's powerful Napoleonic-style governorship. Twice Dodd failed to win the pivotal Democratic gubernatorial nomination: 1952 and 1959. To his critics, he was a Long "hatchet man." To his admirers, he never let his defeats sour his optimistic spirit, his patriotism, or his devotion to his adopted home state. Dodd was born in a logging camp in Liberty, Texas, near Houston to Daniel David Dodd and the former Nancy J. Pawley. The family relocated to Sabine Parish (parish seat: Many, pronounced MAN NIE) between Shreveport and Lake Charles. He graduated from Zwolle High School in Zwolle in Sabine Parish. After high school, Dodd play...