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Edmund Michael Reggie, Sr. (July 19, 1926 – November 19, 2013), was an American Democratic politician and city judge from Louisiana. Reggie was born in the rice-growing city of Crowley, the seat of government of Acadia Parish in southwestern Louisiana, but resided in his later years in Lafayette. He claimed to have been the youngest person ever to have served as a judge in American history. He was the second father-in-law of the late U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who was only six years Reggie's junior. ==Background== Reggie was of Lebanese descent.〔1930 United States Federal Census, Acadia Parish, Louisiana (online ) Provo, UT, provided through Ancestry.com, accessed 2005-02-25〕〔(From the Cedars of Lebanon to Acadiana ) A book by Samuel J. Reggie〕 In 1946, he received a bachelor's degree from the Southwestern Louisiana Institute in Lafayette, since the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 1949, he procured his law degree from the Tulane University Law School in New Orleans.〔Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 13th Ed., 1973-1974, Marquis Who's Who, Inc., Chicago, 1973〕 Reggie was married to the former Doris Ann Boustany (born July 18, 1930), the daughter of businessman Frem F. Boustany, Sr. (1903–1993), and the former Beatrice Joseph (1912–1988). Doris was born in Lafayette and graduated with honors from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. 〔 Beatrice Boustany was a cousin of Amin Gemayel, a former president of Lebanon. Frem F. Boustany, Jr., a brother-in-law of Edmund Reggie, was a physician who died two months before the passing of his mother, Beatrice.〔"() Boustany service set", ''Lafayette Daily Advertiser'', October 15, 1988, p. 20〕 Doris Reggie is a second cousin of U.S. Representative Charles Boustany of Lafayette, a Republican, who represents Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. Charles Boustany is a nephew-by-marriage of former Governor Edwin Washington Edwards, a Reggie confidant who also began his long political career in Crowley though Edwards was a native of Avoyelles Parish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Judge Edmund Reggie laid to rest: Democratic Party insider died Tuesday at 87, November 22, 2013 )〕 Doris Reggie is a long-term Democratic Party figure, having been a delegate to the national party conventions from 1976 to 1996. She sat on the platform committees in 1980, 1984, and 1988. She was a member of the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee from 1975 to 1992 and sat on the finance committee from 1977 to 1996. She was amember of the national party finance committee from 1980 to 1992. She was the Democratic national committeewoman for Louisiana from 1984 to 1988. In 1979, she was a member of the Governor's Committee for the International Year of the Child.〔"Louisiana: Reggie, Doris Boustany", ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2003-2004'', 19th ed., Vol. 1 (Alabama-Montana) (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, New Jersey, 2003), p. 792〕 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「Edmund Reggie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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