Warren Ed Rand | |
Office: | Louisiana State Representative for Rapides Parish |
Party: | Democrat |
Term Start: | 1960 |
Term End: | 1964 |
Preceded: | At-large members: Ben F. Holt Lloyd George Teekell Robert J. Munson |
Succeeded: | At-large members: Larry Parker Robert J. Munson William P. Polk |
Birth Date: | 4 February 1920 |
Birth Place: | Alexandria Rapides Parish Louisiana, US |
Death Place: | Alexandria, Louisiana |
Resting Place: | Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, Louisiana |
Alma Mater: | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
Occupation: | Businessman |
Spouse: | Florence Marie Robinson Rand |
Children: | Ellen R. Thrash Two grandsons |
Relations: | Whitfield Jack (brother-in-law) |
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.