David Washington Pipes, Jr. (August 6, 1886 – September 6, 1968) was a Houma, Louisiana (Terrebonne Parish) lawyer and sugar cane planter and previously lifelong Democrat who defected to the Republican Party in 1940 to oppose the nomination of Henry A. Wallace for the vice presidency and to wage his own campaign for an open seat in the United States House of Representatives from the Lafayette-based 3rd congressional district.
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6 August 1886 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Died |
6 September 1968 (aged 82)
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Zodiac | Leo |
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