Charles Elson " Buddy " Roemer III October 4, โ May 17, was an American politician, investor, and banker who served as the 52nd governor of Louisiana from to , and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from to In March , while serving as governor, Roemer switched affiliation from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.
Roemer was a candidate for the presidential nominations of the Republican Party [ 3 ] and the Reform Party [ 4 ] in He withdrew from those contests and sought the Americans Elect presidential nomination until that group announced it would not field a candidate in because no candidate reached the required minimum threshold of support to be listed on its ballot.
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Roemer served on the Advisory Council of Represent. Us , a nonpartisan anti-corruption organization. Gardner , a former mayor of Shreveport. Gardner knew Roemer's grandfather as "Uncle Ross". McDade's wife died, and he remarried, from which union came Adeline Roemer.
Roemer and Gardner were not close politically. Roemer was reared on the family's Scopena plantation near Bossier City. In , he graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. Following college, Roemer returned to Louisiana to work in his father's computer business and later founded two banks. He was elected in as a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention held in Pugh , future U. Roemer's father had been in the campaign manager for Edwin Edwards and became commissioner of administration during Edwards' first term as governor.
Buddy Roemer worked on the Edwards campaign as a regional leader and later started a political consulting firm. As a member of Congress, Roemer represented Louisiana's 4th congressional district in the northwestern section of the state, which includes Shreveport and Bossier City.
