page_title: Harvey Locke Carey
section_title: Law and politics
hierarchical_section_title: Harvey Locke Carey / Law and politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of U.S. Senator Russell Long with campaign director Harvey Locke Carey, dated 1949 in Senate office
context_page_description: Harvey Locke Carey was an attorney, United States Navy officer, and politician from, principally, Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana. He married Katie Elizabeth Drew of Minden in nearby Webster Parish.
context_section_description: After the war, Carey became an oil and natural gas attorney in Shreveport; one of his principal clients was William C. Feazel, the interim U.S. senator appointed in May 1948 upon the death of John H. Overton. Late in 1947 and early in 1948, Carey was the northwestern Louisiana campaign manager to return Earl Kemp Long to the governorship for his first full term to a position which then paid $12,000 per year. In a runoff election,  Long handily defeated former Governor Sam H. Jones of Lake Charles to succeed the first of the two terms of Jimmie Davis. Later in the same year, Carey and former State Senator Lloyd Hendrick of Shreveport ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 4th congressional district. The pair was defeated by the popular incumbent Overton Brooks of Shreveport, a nephew of John Overton, who subsequently died in office in 1961. In the 1948 fall campaign, as a member of the Caddo Parish Democratic Executive Committee, Carey worked unsuccessfully to carry Louisiana's then ten electoral votes for U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who lost the state to the official Democratic nominee, Strom Thurmond, then the governor of South Carolina. He also worked successfully in Russell B. Long's northwest Louisiana general election campaign for a partial term in the U. S. Senate against the Republican Clem S. Clarke, a Shreveport oilman.
  Carey's support for the Longs was in contrast to the stand of his father-in-law, Judge Harmon Caldwell Drew, who had spoken out against Huey Pierce Long, Jr., in a public meeting in Minden in 1933. Drew was the president of the interest group known as the Louisiana New Deal Organization, an association committed to promoting the New Deal domestic policies of  President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  From 1948 until 1950, Carey was the clerk of the Louisiana House of Representatives; his former brother-in-law, R. Harmon Drew, Sr., subsequently served in the House as the member for Webster Parish from 1972 to 1978. Also in 1948, Carey was a special state attorney general under Bolivar Edwards Kemp, Jr.
caption: Carey (right) confers in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Senator Russell B. Long, whose 1948 campaign in northwestern Louisiana Carey managed.
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