Ralph Elijah King, Sr. (June 16, 1902 – December 2, 1974), was a

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from Winnsboro,

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, who served three non-consecutive terms in the

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for Catahoula,

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, and Richland parishes from 1944 to 1952 and again from 1956 to 1960. Ralf Jr. remarried to Isabel Bernal, a Colombian born aristocrat with ties to the Eisenhower family, in the early 80's. He adopted her two sons Martin Echavarria, award-winning author of "Enabling Collaboration - Achieving Success Through Strategic Alliances and Partnerships" and Camilo Echavarria, attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine. They divorced after three years of marriage.

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