Ned Touchstone
Ned ONeal Touchstone was a newspaper publisher who was a figure in the Radical Right in Louisiana politics during the 1960s. He was born in the village of Florien in Sabine Parish but resided in the ShreveportBossier City metropolitan area for most of his life.
In 1967, Touchstone ran as a Democrat for Louisiana state superintendent of education. He claimed that he would use administrative measures to thwart the continuing process of school desegregation in Louisiana, completed in August 1970. He was badly defeated by incumbent William J. Bill Dodd, a longtime Louisiana politician. Incidentally, Touchstone was born in Sabine Parish, and Dodd, who was seventeen years Touchstones senior, was reared in Sabine Parish.
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