Melvin Leo Rambin (October 7, 1941 – June 19, 2001) was an American banker in Monroe, the seat of Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, who was thus far the only Republican in his city to have held the office of mayor since the 19th century era of Reconstruction.
In her later years Mrs. Rambin was living in Monroe, where she died five months after son Melvin's passing, but she had been residing in Goldonna at the time of her husband's death in 1986.
Glen Robinson (born c. 1954), a former car salesman and later the information officer for the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Department, was the chairman of the highly organized Rambin campaign.
[10] The GOP used horns and sirens to stir up interest in their candidate and asked supporters to turn on porch lights after they had cast their ballots so that the campaign could easily target persons in friendly neighborhoods who had not yet voted to encourage them to go to the polls in the final hours.
[1] Mayoral election day coincided with the presidential primaries in which Al Gore and George W. Bush won large majorities in Ouachita Parish on the path toward their party nominations.
[1] After Rambin's death, the city council chose District 5 member Jamie Mayo, an African American businessman, to serve as interim mayor.