10 Facts About Sidney McCrory

Sidney Jackson McCrory was the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry from 1956 to 1960 during the final term of his political ally, Governor Earl Long.

Cecil McCrory served as adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard, which he worked to reorganize during the administration of Governor Ruffin G Pleasant from 1916 to 1920.

Cecil McCrory was the head of the national draft system during World War I In 1927, he became county agent in Caldwell Parish south of Monroe and transferred to Caddo Parish, where in Shreveport, he was the agent for fifteen years before he returned to his farm at Hope Villa.

Sidney McCrory hence endorsed Kennedy when he ran for president, escorted him around the state, and made speeches on Kennedy's behalf.

Sidney McCrory unseated the one-term commissioner, Dave L Pearce of West Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana, in the primary election held on January 17,1956.

Dodd did not explain why Long "hated" Pearce, but Sidney McCrory unseated Pearce that year.

All Sidney McCrory could talk about was pesticides and how to get rid of different kinds of crop-killing bugs.

Sidney McCrory kill enough pink boll worms to fill the Atlantic Ocean.

Sidney McCrory ran again in 1963, but Pearce was renominated and unopposed in the general election held on March 3,1964.

Sidney McCrory had no Republican opposition during any of those elections.