title: Adrian G. Duplantier
text: # Adrian G. Duplantier
  
  Adrian Guy Duplantier Sr. (March 5, 1929 – August 15, 2007) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate, representing a portion of Orleans Parish for four terms.
  
  ## Education and career
  
  Duplantier was born in New Orleans. He graduated from the Roman Catholic Jesuit High School in 1945 and graduated from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 1949.
  
  ## State senate and judicial service
  
  Failed bid for mayor of New Orleans in 1960, despite winning nearly all of the black vote, but losing the election to Victor H. Schiro
  
  ## Federal judicial service
  
  On April 24, 1978, Duplantier was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana vacated by Judge Roger Blake West. Duplantier was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 26, 1978, and received his commission on May 31, 1978. He assumed senior status on March 6, 1994, and served until his death, in New Orleans.
  
  Duplantier and two other Louisiana Democrats, former State Treasurer Mary Evelyn Parker and former State Representative Risley C. Triche of Napoleonville in Assumption Parish, were interviewed for the 2001 book Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor. The three testified to their personal knowledge of racism in 1960–1961 in Louisiana against African American public assistance recipients.
  
  