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Robert E. Powell (1923–1997), mayor of Monroe 1979–1996; Melvin Rambin (1941–2001), mayor of Monroe 2000–2001, only Republican in the position since Reconstruction; banker in Baton Rouge and Monroe; interred in Baton Rouge; Frank Spooner, oil and natural gas producer and Republican politician, moved to Monroe in 1967 [5]
Monroe is served by two African-American-owned weekly newspapers: the Monroe Free Press and the Monroe Dispatch. The Free Press was founded in 1969 by Roosevelt Wright, Jr., and The Dispatch was founded in 1975 by Irma and Frank Detiege. The Ouachita Citizen is a locally owned and operated weekly newspaper that was founded in 1924.
This arrangement was short-lived, and GM returned the factory to building full-size Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, and Buick B-body vehicles for 1977. The Oldsmobile and Buick were dropped and the Cadillac DeVille added for 1979. Due to decreasing sales of the Chevrolet B-body cars, the plant was idled in March 1980. [5]
St. Louis Truck Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory that built GMC and Chevrolet trucks, GM "B" body passenger cars, and the 1954–1981 Corvette models in St. Louis. Opened in the 1920s as a Fisher body plant and Chevrolet chassis plant, it expanded facilities to manufacture trucks on a separate line.
Smedley Butler (1881–1940), U.S. Marine Corps major general, double recipient of the Medal of Honor Smedley Crooke (1861–1951), British politician Smedley Darlington (1827–1899), American politician
Matt Klotz and Reilly Smedley. Sonja Flemming/CBS Big Brother 25’s Reilly Smedley has some bad news for fans who were rooting for her and costar Matt Klotz’s romance. “We are not dating ...
Monroe Catholic Central was an all-boys school run by the Brothers of the Holy Cross, located in the building which now houses St. Mary Catholic Central. The merger between the schools began during the 1986–1987 school year when male and female students began taking classes together in both buildings, which are approximately five blocks apart.
In the early 1990s Smedley started a development company called Knight Technologies that produced contract games. [1]Smedley was involved with the creation and development of the original EverQuest, [2] and was co-founder of Verant Interactive, Inc., which became Sony Online Entertainment, Inc. (SOE) after it was purchased by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.