J. Emile Verret (September 13, 1885 – February 9, 1965) was a Louisiana politician who served as the 41st lieutenant governor of Louisiana from 1944 to 1948.
Born in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, Verret received an undergraduate degree from University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute) in 1905, and attended Soule Business College in New Orleans.Guide officiel des Franco-Américains (1946), p. 364-65.
In 1947, during his service as lieutenant governor, when Governor Jimmie Davis was out of state and a hurricane forced the evacuation of the capital, Verret signed a proclamation declaring his house in New Iberia to be the acting state capitol for the day."New Iberia Serving As State Capital For the Day!", Daily Iberian (September 19, 1947), p. 1. The Daily Iberian republished this article fifty years later. He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus.
Veret died on February 9, 1965, and is interred at St. Peter's cemetery, New Iberia, Louisiana.
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References "J. Emile Verret", A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. 2 (1988), p. 810 William J. "Bill" Dodd, Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics, Baton Rouge: Claitor's, 1991 Lafayette Daily Advertiser, February 10, 1965