DeLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr., (January 18, 1912 -- May 22, 1964) was the mayor of New Orleans from 1946-1961 who failed in three hard-fought bids for the then-pivotal Louisiana Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He also served as an appointee of President John F. Kennedy as the United States ambassador to the Organization of American States between 1961 and 1963. New Orleans' peak population was reached during Morrison's mayoralty, when...
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DeLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr., (January 18, 1912 -- May 22, 1964) was the mayor of New Orleans from 1946-1961 who failed in three hard-fought bids for the then-pivotal Louisiana Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He also served as an appointee of President John F. Kennedy as the United States ambassador to the Organization of American States between 1961 and 1963. New Orleans' peak population was reached during Morrison's mayoralty, when the 1960 Census recorded 627,525 inhabitants, a 10.0% increase from the 1950 Census figures. Though the population of metropolitan New Orleans would continue to grow, the city itself has yet to regain its 1960 high-water mark.
DeLesseps Morrison (pronounced DEL ES SEPPS) was born in New Roads, the seat of Pointe Coupee Parish. He died in a plane crash in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico.
Morrison was the son of Jacob Haight Morrison, III (1875-1929), a district attorney in Pointe Coupee Parish, and the former Anita Olivier, a New Orleans socialite. As...
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