Buddy Caldwell

James David Caldwell, Sr., known as Buddy Caldwell , is an American politician and lawyer affiliated with the Republican Party who is the former attorney general of the U.S. state of Louisiana having served from 2008 to 2016.

Caldwell was the fourth of seven children born to J. D. Caldwell , and the former Genevieve Minsky in tiny Columbia, Louisiana, the seat of Caldwell Parish, and the home of former Governor John McKeithen and McKeithens son, the late Louisiana Secretary of State W. Fox McKeithen, a Caldwell family friend. The Caldwells moved permanently to rural Madison Parish in 1949. J.D. Caldwell obtained a masters degree in music from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and sang earlier with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. After moving to Tallulah, the senior Caldwell became a farmer and clothing merchant. Mrs. Caldwell, a registered nurse, held a degree from Touro Infirmary of New Orleans. She was a public health nurse and later a Madison Parish school health nurse for thirty years.

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