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Gus Weill was born on 12 March, 1933 in Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S., is an American author. Discover Gus Weill's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Occupation Political consultant; author
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 12 March 1933
Birthday 12 March
Birthplace Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.
Date of death 2018
Died Place Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1933

Gus Weill, Sr. (March 12, 1933 – April 13, 2018), was an American author, public relations specialist, and political consultant originally from Lafayette, Louisiana.

1955

Weill graduated in 1955 from Louisiana State University and then completed United States Army Counter Intelligence School.

1957

He was a first lieutenant in the Counter Intelligence Corps in Frankfurt, Germany, until his military discharge in 1957.

1958

In 1958, Weill established the first advertising/public relations firm in Baton Rouge.

1962

Weill and his wife, the former Ann Cherry, had a son, Gus Weill, Jr. (1962–2004), who was an attorney and public relations specialist in New York City, who suffered from depression and committed suicide at the age of forty-two.

1963

In 1963, he was introduced to Louisiana Public Service Commissioner John McKeithen of Columbia by Judge Edmund Reggie of Crowley, Louisiana, and soon took over the management of McKeithen's successful gubernatorial campaign.

1964

From 1964 to 1968, he served as executive secretary to the governor in McKeithen's first term.

Considered the "father of modern political public relations in Louisiana," Weill also handled campaigns for three other Louisiana governors, McKeithen's predecessor and successor, Jimmie Davis and Edwin Washington Edwards, and Edwards' successor and second predecessor, David C. Treen.

1983

In 1983, Weill was named to the Douglas L. Manship Hall of Fame in the LSU School of Mass Communications.

1992

He trained the Democratic strategist James Carville, a mastermind of the election in 1992 of Bill Clinton, then the governor of Arkansas, as U.S. president.

He also groomed other public relations specialists, who became his competitors, such as Raymond Strother, manager of the Gary Hart presidential campaign, and Roy Fletcher, affiliated with Patrick J. Buchanan's insurgent Republican campaigns.

Weill managed some 350 campaigns.

He also promoted the advantages of the Louisiana Superdome domed stadium in New Orleans.

Weill convinced McKeithen to implement the state agency, the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, or CODOFIL, an idea originally proposed by U.S. Representative James Domengeaux of Lafayette.

An author of novels, plays, and poetry, Weill spent two years working for the producer Otto Preminger.

For nineteen years, Weill hosted the program Louisiana Legends on his state's Public Broadcasting Service network.

1994

In 1994, he was named a "Louisiana Legend" by the PBS program that he hosted for many years.

1996

In 1996, Weill was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.

2002

The Weills resided in New York City since December 2002.

They have a grandson, Gus Weill, III.

2004

Weill's 2004 novel, The Cajuns, is particularly known for its treatment of Cajun culture and the unique characters of the fictitious Richelieu Parish in the year 1956, with political corruption and petty theft.

One of the characters bears the name "Patoot Gaspard," supposedly a veteran member of the Louisiana State Senate.

Gaspard's son-in-law, a "Bobby Boudreaux", is the parish sheriff.

The local priest, "Father Justin," is Gaspard's son.

Though not himself Cajun, the Jewish Weill developed a knowledge of that culture through his rearing in Lafayette.

The Cajuns was inspired by a suggestion from James Carville: "Gus was always telling stories, from the first day I met him. There aren't many people who can tell you the same story, like, eleven times and still make you want to hear it again. He's the best raconteur I've ever met."

Other Weill works include:

2017

For his role in handling more than 350 campaigns, the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame presented Weill in 2017 with the "Friend of John McKeithen Award."

Erik Spanberg describes Weill, accordingly:

All his life, Gus Weill has been distracted by a restless mind incapable of sticking to one subject for long.

That peripatetic nature led to turns as a political consultant, an advertising executive, a gubernatorial adviser, television and radio host, poet, biographer, and now, at last, full-time novelist.

2018

Weill died on April 13, 2018, at the age of 85 while under hospice care.