Patrick Thomson Caffery, Sr., known as Pat Caffery (July 6, 1932 – December 17, 2013), was an attorney from New Iberia, Louisiana, who formerly served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1964 to 1968 and then as a U.S. representative from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district from 1969 to 1973. Early life Patrick Thomson Caffery, Sr. was born in St. Mary Parish in South Louisiana. His great-great-great-grandfather, Colonel John Donelson, was the co-founder of the City of Nashville, Tennessee. His great-great-great uncle, Andrew Jackson, served as the President of the United States. His grandfather, Donelson Caffery, served as a United States Senator. Pat Caffery was born at Haifleigh Plantation in St. Mary Parish and reared in the parish seat of Franklin. He was the eleventh of twelve children of Ralph Earl Caffery and the former Letitia Decuir. An Eagle Scout, he was selected in 1950 in a nationwide competition by the Boy Scouts of America to present a "State of the Nation" report in the White House to then U.S. President Harry S. Truman. He graduated in 1955 from Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette), having been awarded a music scholarship. He was an accomplished trumpet player and was named as coronet soloist with the SLI Stage Band. In 1956, he received a law degree from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He was the managing editor of the Louisiana Law Review. Career In 1957, he became a member of the New Iberia law firm of Helm, Simon, Caffery and Duhe. He later practiced for many years with later federal judges John Malcolm Duhé, Jr., and W. Eugene Davis in the law firm of Caffery, Duhé, and Davis. From 1958 to 1962, he was an assistant district attorney for the 16th Judicial District Court in Iberia Parish. Caffery defeated fellow Democrat Edwin E. Willis, a 20-year incumbent, and a committee chairman, in the primary election held in August 1968. Two years earlier, Willis had survived the challenge waged by the Republican oilman Hall Lyons of Lafayette, the younger son of GOP state chairman Charlton Lyons. In 1970, at the behest of Governor John McKeithen, U.S. Senator Russell Long (who considered Caffery a formidable challenger to his U.S. Senate seat) and U.S. Representative Edwin Edwards, (who feared a challenge by Caffery in Edwards' planned 1971 gubernatorial race)