|
Billy Henry Robertson (May 5, 1938 - June 27, 2013), known as Bill Robertson, was the Former mayor of the small city of Minden, the parish seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States. He was first elected on November 6, 1990 and served for as mayor from January 1, 1991 until his death.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Curtis Heyen, "Minden Mayor Bill Robertson dies" )〕 With 22.5 years in office, Robertson was the longest-serving Minden mayor; the second longest-serving mayor, John T. David, held the position from 1946 to 1955.〔City of Minden, List of Mayors Since 1888〕 On August 9, 2008, Robertson was elected president of the Louisiana Municipal Association at the annual convention in Lafayette. He succeeded outgoing LMA President Clarence R. Fields, the long-term mayor of Pineville.〔http://www.nwlanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9709&Itemid=1/〕 A Democrat, Robertson won his sixth consecutive four-year term on October 2, 2010. He polled 1,885 votes (53 percent) against the Republican candidate, Alton Monroe "Al" Hortman, Jr., who had also run in 2006, and two "No Party" candidates, Deric Tate and Larry Botzong. Hortman finished with 737 votes; Tate, 749 (both 21 percent), and Botzong, 170 (5 percent).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louisiana primary election returns, October 2, 2010 )〕 In the 2006 general election, Robertson polled 2,054 votes (56 percent) and carried nine of the city's fifteen precincts. Hortman then trailed with 1,596 ballots (44 percent) and led in the six other precincts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louisiana general election returns, November 7, 2006 )〕 Hortman hence received less than half the support in 2010 that he had in 2006.
==Background== Robertson was born to Homer Floyd Robertson (1910-1981) and the late Marie Robertson, a clerk in a shoe store, in Batesville in Independence County in northern Arkansas.〔"Robertson New Owner of Talbot's Shoe Center", ''Minden Press-Herald'', September 19, 1966, p. 1〕 After a divorce, the senior Robertson married Imogene Kimmer Stanfield (1925–2008), who was formerly wed to Robert Stanfield, Sr. The couple had a son, Eddie Robertson (born 1962) of Minden, the half-brother of Bill Robertson and his brother, Bobby Gerald Robertson (born c. 1945) and wife, Lana, subsequently of Branson, Missouri.〔(nwlanews.com - Your home for news in Bossier and Webster Parishes )〕 Robertson's surviving wife, the former Barbara Kimmer, is the daughter of Dale Edgar Kimmer (1920-2006) and Virginia Martin Kimmer (1922-2013),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Virginia Martin Kimmer )〕 also natives of Independence County, Arkansas. Dale Kimmer, a farmer in Batesville, raised cattle and chickens until he and Virginia retired and relocated to Minden in 1995. Robertson's stepmother, Imogene, and his father-in-law, Dale, were siblings. Bill and Barbara Robertson have three children, Beverly R. Waller, Brenda R. Weeks, and Kyle Kimmer Robertson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dale Edgar Kimmer )〕 Robertson was an employee of Talbot's Shoe Store in Magnolia, Arkansas. He was sent to Minden to operate a Talbot's outlet and thereafter purchased the store from Ben Talbot and his father, D. O. Talbot, having renamed it "Robertson's Shoes", which he operated until 1979.〔〔''Minden Press-Herald'', September 19, 1966〕 For a time, Bill and Barbara Robertson had another outlet in Minden, along with Robertson's Shoes, called the Purple Hippopotamus, which opened in 1972.〔"Candidate: Robertson seeks reelection", ''Minden Press-Herald'', August 18, 1983, p. 1〕 The Robertsons had another store in Homer in neighboring Claiborne Parish, which opened in 1973, and a fourth outlet in Shreveport, which was launched in 1976. He opened the Shoe Box in Minden in 1978.〔 As a past president of the Jaycees, Robertson had been included in the 1965 edition of the publication ''Outstanding Young Men of America.'' He was named "Outstanding Young Man of Minden" in 1969. He was also a former chairman of the Minden Airport Authority.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Robertson (Louisiana politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|