Allen C. Gremillion

Allen C. Gremillion
Louisiana State Representative from Acadia and Vermillion parishes
In office 1964 – September 30, 1971
Preceded by	W. P. Arceneaux Jerry S. Ashley
Succeeded by	Louis Dischler, Jr. John N. John, III
Personal details
Born	1929 Crowley, Acadia Parish, Louisiana
Died	September 30, 1971 (aged 41 or 42)
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Judy Childers Gremillion
Residence	Crowley, Louisiana
Alma mater	Crowley High School University of Louisiana at Lafayette Louisiana State University Law Center
Occupation	Attorney
Religion	Roman Catholic

Allen C. Gremillion (1929 – September 30, 1971) was an attorney from Crowley, Louisiana, who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1964 until his death.^[1]

Gremillion was born in Crowley to Curtis L. Gremillion and the former Beatrice Watson. After graduation from Crowley High School, he entered the pre-law program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He received hls law degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge. He served in the United States Navy.^[2][3]

Twice elected to the Louisiana House, the first time from Acadia Parish and the second incomplete term from Acadia and Vermillion parishes, he served on the Conservation, Game Fish and Oysters, Judiciary, and Transportation and Highways committees. He was instrumental in the passage of a bill to provide additional funding to the Louisiana State University Rice Experiment Station in Crowley. He also worked to establish Louisiana State University at Eunice as a two-year campus.^[2] He co-sponsored bills to create a state loan program for college students. He also worked to create the Southwestern Louisiana State School for Mentally Retarded Children in Iota in Acadia Parish.^[2]

In his last year in office, Representative Gremillion sponsored a scholarship at Tulane University for a son of influential former Crowley City Judge Edmund Reggie. Some seven members of the Reggie family received such scholarships sponsored by the Acadia Parish legislative delegation.^[4]

Gremillion practiced law from 1953-1971. He was a member of the American Legion and the Roman Catholic Church. He was chairman of the Acadia Parish Boy Scouts of America committee. He was married to the former Judy Childers. The couple had no children. Gremillion died at the age of either forty-one or forty-two, with eight months remaining in his second term. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Crowley.^[2][5]

References

1. "Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012" (PDF). legis.state.la.us. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
2. "Gremillion, Allen C.". Louisiana Historical Association, A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography (lahistory.org). Retrieved December 24, 2010.
3. A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography indicates that Gremillion was a World War II veteran, but he was only sixteen, possibly still fifteen, when the war ended. Perhaps, the dictionary editors mean World War II-era veteran. The dictionary does not give his years of military service.
4. Bridges, Tyler (15 October 1995). "Scholarships to Insiders". The Times-Picayune (New Orleans). p. A-13.
5. A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography bases its biographical sketch of Gremillion on his obituaries in the Crowley Daily Signal and the Lafayette Daily Advertiser, October 1, 1971.