Fred A. Earhart was briefly acting mayor of New Orleans for one day on July 15, 1936.

A pharmacist

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, Earhart was the Twelfth Ward

12th Ward of New Orleans

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 leader of the Regular Democratic Organization

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 political machine. He was an Old Regular state senator for the Twelfth Ward from 1912 into the 1920s. He was elected to New Orleans' commission council in 1930, where he served as Commissioner of Public Utilities.
Along with A. Miles Pratt

A. Miles Pratt

Albert Miles Pratt was briefly acting mayor of New Orleans, USA, from June 30 to July 15, 1936.Pratt was New Orleans’s Commissioner of Public Finance for two terms in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1936 he was appointed collector of customs for the Port of New Orleans. Along with Fred A. Earhart and...

 and Jesse S. Cave

Jesse S. Cave

Jesse S. Cave was briefly acting mayor of New Orleans from July 15 to August 17, 1936.Cave arrived in New Orleans in 1904 as a manager of an iron cistern company, and was elected president of the New Orleans Board of Trade in 1930. In 1932 he was elected Louisiana State Treasurer.Along with A....

, Earhart was one of three acting mayors who served in the summer of 1936 between the resignation of Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley

T. Semmes Walmsley

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 and the accession of Robert Maestri

Robert Maestri

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After his brief tenure as acting mayor, Earhart continued to serve as Commissioner of Public Utilities in the Maestri administration.

Earhart owned and founded the first drugstore

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 chain in New Orleans.

Son, Robert, is his last living child.

The Earhart Expressway

Earhart Expressway

The Earhart Expressway, named for Frederick Earhart, is a state highway located in both Jefferson Parish and Orleans Parish, Louisiana. It is also designated as Louisiana Highway 3139 or LA 3139...

 in Jefferson Parish and Earhart Boulevard in New Orleans are named after him.

Sources

• Choctaw Club of New Orleans. Truth Achievements of the Mayor Robert S. Maestri Administration. Franklin Printing Co., 1943.
• Gill, Donald A. Stories Behind New Orleans Street Names. Bonus Books, 1992.
• Interview with son, Robert Earhart Sr. July 10, 2007.