Ed Rand

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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
Born(1920-02-04)February 4, 1920
DiedMarch 26, 1999(1999-03-26) (aged 79)
Alexandria, Louisiana
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
DiedMarch 26, 1999(1999-03-26) (aged 79)
Alexandria, Louisiana
Resting placeGreenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, Louisiana
PartyDemocratic
SpouseFlorence Marie Robinson Rand
RelationsWhitfield Jack (brother-in-law)
ChildrenEllen R. Thrash
Two grandsons
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.

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