He was an unsuccessful for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress, having been defeated by Republican candidate Clare Boothe Luce.
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The same day, Hodges said, he notified Council President William Workman, and he then worked with District Attorney Asa Keyes and Chief Deputy D.A. Buron Fitts to lay a trap for Downs.
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He was removed from office after just three months, however, when he was convicted of receiving a bribe from a developer who planned to construct a "moving sidewalk" in the Second Street Tunnel.
George W. Downs, co-founder of Applied Physics Corporation (aka Cary Instruments)
Henry W. Downs (1844–1911), Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Howard Cary (1908–1991) was an American engineer and the co-founder of Applied Physics Corporation (later known as Cary Instruments), along with George W. Downs and William C. Miller.
While Downs looked to heroes Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson for guidance when challenges were encumbered, it was the influences of this his distant cousin, Mr. Louis Round Wilson, that formed Downs’ librarian leadership foundation.
In 1972, C. H. "Sammy" Downs, a former Louisiana state senator serving as his state's public works director in the admininistration of Governor John McKeithen, resigned when he was indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery in connection with procuring state business for the Shoup company.