Emory A. Hebard

Emory A. Hebard

Emory A. Hebard (born September 28, 1917 in Carmel , Maine , † November 1, 1993 in Lebanon , New Hampshire ) was an American businessman and politician who was State Treasurer of Vermont from 1977 to 1989 .

Life

Emory Amos Hebard was born in Carmel, Maine. He grew up in Northampton , Massachusetts . He graduated from Northampton High School in 1934 and graduated from Middlebury College in 1938. He belonged to the Phi Beta Kappa Association .

He lived in New York City for some time and worked for the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC

During his studies, Hebard was an anti-war activist, he was against the US intervention in Europe.

After the United States entered World War II , Hebard joined the United States Coast Guards . After the war, he continued to serve in the United States Coast Guard Reserve. Hebard was returned to active service due to the Korean War from 1950 to 1952.

He then returned to the Coast Guard Reserve and achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

Hebard moved to Vermont in 1947. In Charleston he ran the Emory's Country Store from 1947 to 1950 . There he also worked as a postmaster . He moved the business to Glover and ran it from 1952 to 1963. He later ran a gift shop and ice cream bar in Barton. He worked as a real estate agent and was director of industrial development for the Vermont Development Commission.

He worked in various public offices. He moderated the community meeting and the school district.

Political career

In 1960, Hebard was a successful candidate for a seat in the Vermont House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party , at a time when it had 246 seats on the principle of "one town, one representative". He was chairman of the Franklin S. Billings Redistribution Committee when a 1965 federal court decision introduced proportional representation and constituencies had to be established. The number of seats in the House of Representatives was reduced to 150.

Vermont was dominated by the Republicans, as was the House of Representatives. Here the members of the Republican Party from the small towns were in the majority. They were against the formation of constituencies, as these changes threatened the supremacy of the Republicans. As a MP from Glover, one of Vermont's smallest towns, of just 683 residents, and a Conservative Republican, Hebard was expected to vote against proportional representation. Instead, Billings and Hebard advocated implementation, arguing that if Vermont didn't solve this problem on its own, the federal government and courts would instead.

After the redistribution, Hebard successfully ran for a seat in the newly divided House of Representatives in 1965. It was a special election, Hebard ran as a candidate from Glover and four other cities, which were combined into a two-MP district. He was a member of parliament until 1969.

Irasburg also belonged to Hebard's district . The conservatism to which he adhered in the 1950s and 1960s led to the Irasburg Affair in 1968 , in which an African-American ecclesiastical minister was the target of a campaign to drive him out of Vermont. This campaign included harassment by the police and shooting at the minister's home.

Hebard also turned down the Vermont-New York Project, an attempt by Vermont Governor Philip H. Hoff and New York City Mayor John Lindsay to encourage African-American urban children to experience the "countryside" by spending the summer in Vermont spent.

He stated at the time that his motives in the Irasburg Affair and in the controversy over the Vermont-New York Project were not racism, but the attempt to weaken Hoff's popularity. Hoff was the first governor of Vermont to be a member of the Democratic Party since the Republican Party was founded in the 1850s, and Hebard hoped to bring the governor back into Republican hands and also a Republican majority in the House and Senate to back up.

Hebard was Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee from 1967 to 1969 . In 1968 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Vermont Senate . He returned to the House of Representatives after the 1970 elections and chaired the Grants Committee from 1973 to 1977. Madeleine M. Kunin , later Vermont Governor, wrote that Hebard was like a mentor to her when she was a member of the Grants Committee during his presidency by giving her considerable responsibility, despite her status as a member of the Democratic Party, which was in the minority there. After leaving the House of Representatives, Kunin took over the chairmanship of the Approval Committee.

In 1975, Hebard ran unsuccessfully for the office of Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives. He lost to Democrat Timothy J. O'Connor. O'Connor's victory was remarkable in that it was the first time since the Republican Party was formed that a Democrat had won this office.

Hebard moved to Barton in the mid-1970s . When incumbent State Treasurer Stella Hackel-Sims chose to run for governor, Hebard successfully ran for State Treasurer of Vermont in 1976.

During his tenure, Hebard was known for his attention to detail. A long-time colleague in the House of Representatives, Melvin Mandigo, said of Hebard that Hebard preferred to go to Boston himself to make government payments in favor of bonds rather than entrusting them to the Post.

He held the office of treasurer until his retirement in 1989. In 1987, in preparation for his retirement, Emory Hebard contacted Paul W. Ruse , Springfield's Town Manager and Treasurer, and offered him the position of Deputy Treasurer. Ruse accepted the offer, although he and Hebard belonged to different parties. In 1988, Hebard announced his retirement and recommended Ruse as his successor. In TV commercials, he said that Ruse would be a worthy successor - for a Democrat .

In 1941 Hebard married Irma Mills (1914–1992). They had a daughter, Sammy Maginnis Hebard.

In September 1993 he married Edith Cameron St. Onge.

Hebard died in Lebanon, New Hampshire on November 1, 1993 of complications from a heart attack. His grave is in Westlook Cemetery in Glover.

legacy

The Vermont State Office Building in Newport was named after him.

Web links

• Emory A. Hebard in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maine Birth Records, 1621-1922, entry for Emory A. Hebard, accessed on January 17, 2014
2. ^ Middlebury College, Yearbook , 1937, 84
3. ^ Vermont Secretary of State, Legislative Directory , 1979, 196
4. ^ Vermont Secretary of State, Vermont Legislative Directory and State Manual , 1985, 457
5. ↑ Madeleine May Kunin, Living a Political Life , 2011
6. ^ Samuel B. Hand, The Star That Set: The Vermont Republican Party, 1854-1974 , 256
7. ^ Edward Hoagland, Compass Points: How I Lived , 2007, p. 244
8. ↑ Middlebury Camous newspaper, Memorial Day to be Commemorated ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 27, 1936 
9. ^ Youth Committee Against War, Proceedings, National Youth Anti-War Congress , 1940, 31
10. ^ US Government Printing Office, of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Coast Guard Reserve in the Order of Precedence , 1959, 72
11. ^ Paul Anthony Theis, Edmund Lee Henshaw, Who's Who in American Politics, Issue 2, 1991, p. 1665
12. ^ United States Postal Service, Appointments of US Postmasters, 1832-1971, entry for Emory A. Hebard, accessed January 17, 2014
13. ↑ Philip Hoff . UPNE ( books.google.com ).
14. ^ North Adams (Massachusetts) Transcript, Hebard is Quitting Commission, June 6, 1958
15. ^ Vermont Supreme Court: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont . Vermont Printing Company, 1970 ( books.google.com ).
16. ↑ Darlene Young, Crystal Lake Falls Historical Association (Barton Vt.): A history of Barton, Vermont . Crystal Lake Falls Historical Association, 1998, ISBN 978-1-56715-070-4 ( books.google.com ).
17. ↑ Vermont Folklife Center Radio, Under The Golden Dome: The Stories Behind Vermont's Citizen Legislature, Program 3: Philip Hoff and Reapportionment ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2005 
18. ↑ Rutland Herald. (No longer available online.) In: timesargus.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2015 ; accessed on August 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
19. ↑ Philip Hoff . UPNE ( books.google.com ).
20. ↑ Roderick Stackelberg: Memory and History: Recollections of a Historian of Nazism, 1967–1982 . iUniverse, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4620-6440-3 , pp. 21 ( books.google.com ).
21. ^ Slayton: Irasburg Affair Remembered. In: vpr.net. Retrieved August 9, 2015 . 
22. ↑ Rutland Herald. (No longer available online.) In: timesargus.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
23. ^ Samuel B. Hand: The Star That Set: The Vermont Republican Party, 1854-1974 . Lexington Books, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7391-0600-6 , pp. 265 ( books.google.com ).
24. ^ Charles Kershner, United Press International, Watertown (NY) Daily Times, Vermont, Negro Population Nil, Has Budding Racial Problem , August 16, 1968
25. ↑ United Press International, Bennington Banner, State Officials Tour Northeast Kingdom Today, June 4, 1968
26. ^ Betsy Samuelson, United Press International, Bennington Banner, Second Davis Message Fails to Change Legislative Minds, Jan. 24, 1969
27. ^ United Press International, Bennington Banner, Plan Proposed for State to Take Over High Schools, Dec. 18, 1970
28. ^ Madeleine Kunin: The New Feminist Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family . Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-60358-368-8 , pp. 177 ( books.google.com ).
29. ^ Dean W. Schott, Associated Press, Hashua (Hew Hampshire) Telegraph, Rep. Hebard Visits Solons in House Leadership Bid , Nov. 21, 1974
30. ↑ United Press International, Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram, Democrats Elect Speaker in Vermont , January 9, 1975
31. ^ Rod Clarke, United Press International, Bennington Banner, Snelling, Stafford, Jeffords, Diamond and Guest Victorious, Nov. 3, 1976
32. ^ Crystal Lake Falls Historical Association, A History of Barton, Vermont , 1998, p. 164
33. ↑ ^{a b} Barton Chronicle, Former State Treasurer Em Hebard Dies at 76, November 3, 1993
34. ↑ Patrick M. Fitzgibbons, The Bond Buyer, Treasurer helps Vermont's economy dig out from the recession ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , March 29, 1993 
35. ^ University of Vermont, Barton Human Capital: Emory A. Hebard , accessed January 17, 2014
36. ^ Vermont, Marriage Records, 1909-2008, 1956 entry for Sammy Maginnis Hebard and Robert Alexander Hedger, accessed January 17, 2014
37. ↑ Vermont Marriage Index, 1981-1984 and 1989-2001, entry for Emory A. Hebard and Edith Cameron St. Onge, accessed January 17, 2014
38. ^ US Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current, entry for Emory A. Hebard, accessed January 17, 2014
39. ^ US Department of Veterans Affairs, BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010, entry for Emory Hebard, accessed January 17, 2014
40. ^ The Vermont Statutes Online, Title 29: Public Property and Supplies, Chapter 17: Names of State Facilities , 2013