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Jackie Clarkson, longtime New Orleans politician and mother of actress Patricia Clarkson, dies at 88

NEW ORLEANS — Jaquelyn Brechtel Jackie Clarkson, former Louisiana legislator and three-term New Orleans City Council member and mother of Oscar-nominated actress Patricia Clarkson, has died at the age of 88.

Municipal authorities confirmed his death on Wednesday. Mayor LaToya Cantrell, City Council Speaker Helena Moreno and members of Louisiana's congressional delegation were among those who praised Clarkson, highlighting his support of the New Orleans Recreation Department and its efforts to preserve the city's French Quarter and the Algiers neighborhood where she was born.

Clarkson was elected to her first term on the City Council in 1990, according to a summary of her career in the Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. She represented the city’s District C, including the French Quarter and Algiers, for a single term before losing a close race to now-Congressman Troy Carter. Clarkson went on to serve two terms in the state House of Representatives and regained the District C seat in 2002, when Carter ran unsuccessfully for mayor.

She lost an election for a city council seat in 2006, but was successful the following year in a special election for an at-large seat that opened after a resignation. She was re-elected three years later and retired from politics in 2014.

“Jackie Clarkson was a proud Algiers girl, a staunch supporter of our nation’s armed forces and veterans, and a Louisiana political legend,” Carter said in a news release. “She was a trailblazer during her service as one of the first women on the New Orleans City Council and in the Louisiana House of Representatives, and continued her activism even after leaving office by supporting the National World War II Museum and the New Orleans Opera House.”

Funeral arrangements were pending.

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