Livingston County Louisiana Archives News.....Ex State Rep Julius Blount dead at 82 August 24, 2008
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Eddie Bennett http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00020.html#0004894 August 24, 2008, 9:15 pm

The Sunday Advocate August 24, 2008
Former state Rep. Julius A. Blount, of Walker, who regularly carried baskets 
of peaches to other legislators during his 16 years at the State Capitol, died 
Friday, Aug 15, from complications from surgury.

Blount served 12 years as a Livingston Parish police juror and was elected to 
four terms in the state House of Representatives, his son Lloyd Blount. said 
Saturday.

A former pipefitter and construction supervisor, Julius Blount retired from 
teh Legislature in 1988 and turned to working in his garden and spending time 
with his family.

Former state Rep, Donald Ray Kennard, who servd alongside Blount, Said "Blount 
was known for his values and the peaches he placed on desks at the Capitol".

"He was a prince of a guy," Kennard said, "His honesty and integrity I always 
rememberd."

Blount, a World War II Veteran, entered politics because he saw it as a 
way "to get things done". Lloyd Blount said.

He worked as a police juror to fund drainage improvements in Livingston Parish.

Blount decided to run for the Legislature because he thought he could do more 
for his parish at the state level.  His son said.

Blount, who never lost an election developed a good raport with other 
lawmakers and the two governors he served under.  He became known as 
the "peach man" by some legislators after the family started growing peaches 
in a two-acre orchard.

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