Robert "Bobby" Freeman

Robert Louis "Bobby" Freeman (* April 27, 1934 ) is an American politician. Between 1980 and 1988 he was Deputy Governor of the State of Louisiana.

Career

In 1952 graduated from Robert Freeman, the Plaquemine Senior High School. He then studied at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Between 1956 and 1959 he served in the U.S. Army; in the years 1960 and 1961 he worked for a chemical company. After studying law at Loyola University in New Orleans and his 1965 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in a law firm in Plaquemine in this profession. He became a member of the Bars of the State of Louisiana and the United States. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. Between 1968 and 1980 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Louisiana.

1979 Freeman was elected Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. He was deputy to the Republican Governor David C. Treen. Since 1984, he served for a re-election under the new Governor Edwin Edwards. With Governor Treen Freeman understood very poor and it often came to clashes between the two politicians. In 1988, Freeman failed in the primaries of his party for the U.S. House of Representatives. Between 1990 and 1996 he was a municipal judge in Plaquemine.