High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Floyd Kennon, Sr., known as Bob Kennon (August 12, 1902 - January 11, 1988), was a "good-government" reform Democratic governor of Louisiana, serving from 1952-1956. He failed to win a second non-consecutive term in the 1963 Democratic primary. After the Brown v. Board of Education decision of May 17, 1954, Kennon ordered the continued enforcement of laws relating to segregation. He vowed that the state would provide a public school system "which will include segregation in fact." Desegregation, however, began under Kennon's successors, Earl Kemp Long and James Houston "Jimmie" Davis, but it was a long process, not completed in Louisiana until August 1970.