Harry Connick Sr, longtime New Orleans DA and singer’s dad, dead at 97

Harry Connick Sr., the longtime New Orleans district lawyer, and father to 2, together with musician and Harry Connick Jr., has handed away at the age of 97. 

The youthful Connick’s publicist confirmed the elder Connick’s demise to Fox News Digital Thursday, saying that he died peacefully at his New Orleans along with his youngsters and spouse by his facet. 

A reason behind demise was not supplied. 

Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick Sr., solutions a query throughout a information convention in New Orleans, May 25, 2001. (AP Photo/Bill Haber/File)

Born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1926, Connick grew up with seven siblings. He lived by means of the powerful years of the melancholy and joined the Navy in 1945, serving within the South Pacific throughout World War II. 

Connick ran for the workplace of District Attorney of Orleans Parish in 1969, however misplaced to Jim Garrison. He ran once more 4 years later and dethroned the incumbent prosecutor. 

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He gained re-election 4 instances, a white politician who efficiently constructed biracial assist as the town’s political energy base shifted to African Americans.

Connick remained undefeated, however in retirement he was dogged by questions on whether or not his workplace withheld proof that favored defendants. The situation got here to the forefront with a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a lawsuit filed by John Thompson, who was exonerated after 14 years on Louisiana’s demise row for a killing he did not commit.

A lifelong music fan, he took up singing within the early Nineties and turned a daily performer at nightclubs in New Orleans and throughout the state, along with many profitable visitor appearances along with his son. 

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His son’s publicist mentioned Connick “will be deeply missed, but all who knew him were well aware that his greatest desire was to spend eternity with God in heaven.”