Frederick Adam Earhart (July 29, 1875 – November 2, 1948) was acting

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for one day on July 15, 1936. A

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, Earhart was the Twelfth Ward leader of the

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political machine. He was an Old Regular state senator for the Twelfth Ward from 1912 into the 1920s. He was elected to New Orleans' commission council in 1930, where he served as Commissioner of Public Utilities. Along with A. Miles Pratt and Jesse S. Cave. Earhart was one of three acting mayors who served in the summer of 1936 between the resignation of T. Semmes Walmsley and the accession of Robert Maestri. After his brief tenure as acting mayor, Earhart continued to serve as Commissioner of Public Utilities in the Maestri administration. Earhart owned and founded the first

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chain in

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. The

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and Earhart Boulevard in New Orleans are named after him.

Sources

* Choctaw Club of New Orleans. ''Truth Achievements of the Mayor Robert S. Maestri Administration.'' Franklin Printing Co., 1943. * Gill, Donald A. ''Stories Behind New Orleans Street Names''. Bonus Books, 1992.
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