Joseph Arthur Sims, Sr. (July 16, 1914 - May 20, 1973), was a Democratic operative from Hammond, Louisiana, who was associated with his state's Long political faction. As the legal advisor to Governor Earl Kemp Long, he obtained Long's discharge from the Southeast Louisiana State Hospital in Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish, where Long had been temporarily admitted for mental health problems in a sensational series of incidents in the summer of 1959. Long turned to Sims for help after he began to distrust his personal lawyer, Theo Cangelosi of Baton Rouge.
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16 July 1914 Shreveport, Louisiana
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Died |
20 May 1973 (aged 58)
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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