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Left: Portrait of former Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee• photo provided by Lee Family Right: Collectible Harry Lee magnets

He loved Carnival season, and every year he rode in parades and threw magnets bearing his likeness to the crowds. The annual Harry Lee magnets became popular collectibles, and still adorn area refrigerators to this day.

words, and was so moved by this ideal of America and what it is and how it’s a nation of immigrants — that it’s a strength we have.” She ended up working for the Immigration and Naturalization Service and, in 2009, she was elected to the 5th District seat on the Jefferson Parish Council. In 2015, she was elected to the Division B seat as Council At-Large. Today, she is running for Jefferson Parish president. “I never would have thought I would be an elected official, ever. It’s nothing I thought I would ever have pursued. But I have this belief in our country that was rooted in watching my father in public service.” Her father is still part of Jefferson Parish and the city of New Orleans. He loved Carnival season, and every year he rode in parades and threw magnets bearing his likeness to the crowds. The annual Harry

Lee magnets became popular collectibles, and still adorn area refrigerators to this day. And people still come up to Cynthia and say that, while they didn’t know him, they liked her father and voted for him. Her reply: “No, you knew him. He’s just like he was on TV. That person you saw and liked and thought he was? That really was him.”

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