Harry Joseph Kember Jr. (April 28, 1934 – February 9, 2012) was an American politician. Born in

Destrehan, Louisiana Destrehan is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States. At the 2020 census, its population was 11,340. It is located on the east bank of the Mississippi River. Destrehan is par ...

, Kember graduated from Ascension Catholic High School in 1952 and lived in

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. He served in the Louisiana National Guard and on the Atchafalaya Basin Levy Board. Kember served in the

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from 1980 to 1987, and was a

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. Kember was convicted of mail fraud and bribery and was sentenced to prison.Obituary
dignitymemorial.com; accessed March 20, 2021. Kember died in 2012, aged 77. A widower, he was survived by five children and fifteen grandchildren, and a large extended family.

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