Pat Screen was elected in 1980 as the Democratic Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish from 1981 to 1988.
15 Facts About Pat Screen
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Pat Screen had been a quarterback for Louisiana State University and played in the 1966 Cotton Bowl.
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Pat Screen was born in New Orleans as the son of James P Screen and Rosemary T Screen.
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Pat Screen played football as a high school sophomore at Jesuit High School in New Orleans.
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Pat Screen continued he continued to play at LSU in Baton Rouge.
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Pat Screen did not play professionally but returned to the university to earn an LSU law degree.
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Pat Screen joined a practice in criminal law in Baton Rouge in 1970.
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In 1971, Pat Screen served on the committee to elect his fellow Democrat Jamar Adcock, a banker from Monroe, as lieutenant governor.
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In 1980, Pat Screen won the mayoral position, a combined municipal-parish office in Baton Rouge.
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Pat Screen was the only Baton Rouge resident to serve as mayor-president from 1965 through 2004; predecessor Dumas and later successor Bobby Simpson were residents of Baker; his immediate successor, Tom Ed McHugh, lived in Zachary.
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Pat Screen was succeeded by fellow Democrat Tom Ed McHugh.
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Pat Screen was found dead from a drug overdose in September 1994 at the age of 51 in a New Orleans hotel.
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Pat Screen is interred at Resthaven Gardens of Memories and Mausoleum in Baton Rouge.
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Pat Screen has been a protege of Democrats John Breaux, a former US Senator from Louisiana and political activist James Carville.
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Pat Screen succeeded Ed Renwick, who had directed the institute for 38 years.