Raiford Blunt

Albert Raiford Blunt (1837 – March 19, 1905), also spelled Raiford Blount and Raford Blunt, was a Baptist minister, teacher and state legislator in Louisiana. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and the Louisiana Senate.

Biography He was born 1837 in Thompsonville, Georgia moving to Louisiana in 1853 He instructed the men to get their guns and went to arrest the leading Republican members including Blunt. Blunt fortified his home and took to hiding with some friends armed with several shotguns, a rifle and two pistols. Bunt road to Alexandria where he headed to New Orleans on a steamboat.

He died March 19, 1905. He left behind six children but no wife as Florence Varner, his third wife had died the previous year. He had continued to work as a minister till his death and left behind a church of 200 members.