Paul M. Haygood

A native of Baton Rouge and longtime resident of New Orleans, he died Saturday, June 13, 2015. He was 72. He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Charlotte Sanders Smither; two daughters, Charlotte H. Haygood Gregory (Mrs. Thomas M. Gregory), Katherine S. Haygood Saulsbury (Mrs. Albert O. Saulsbury IV), both of New Orleans; a sister, Katherine S. Haygood McVea (Mrs. Walker P. McVea), of Baton Rouge and Clinton; a brother, Dr. Bolling C. Haygood and his wife Trudy, of Baton Rouge; and three grandchildren, Charlotte Alston Gregory, Molly McDermott Gregory, and Albert O. Saulsbury V, each of New Orleans. He was preceded in death by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Haygood, who were of Baton Rouge. Pallbearers will be Walter C. Flower, III, Thomas M. Gregory, Denis H. McDonald, Walker P. McVea, Albert O. Saulsbury IV, and Jack M. Weiss. Honorary pallbearers are James J. Bailey, III, Sidney M. Blitzer, Jr., Harry J. Blumenthal, Jr., Cheney C. Joseph, Jr., Fredric J. Figge II, Louis Y. Fishman, Ashton Phelps, Jr., Esmond Phelps II, Eugene R. Preaus, L. Cary Saurage II, Charles H. Smither, and Robert M. Walmsley, Jr. He was a graduate of Louisiana State University and Harvard Law School, following which he moved to New Orleans to begin his distinguished legal career of nearly fifty years. He served as law clerk to Judge Alvin B. Rubin, served as Senior Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston, and was a founding partner of the Fishman Haygood law firm. He was very active and held several Louisiana State Bar Association offices, including Chairman of the Section on Corporation and Business Law, the first Chairman of the Corporate Laws Committee, and served as a member of the Board of Governors and Louisiana Bar Admissions Committee, chairing for many years the subcommittee that prepares and administers the corporation law portion of the Louisiana Bar Examination. He served for ten years on the planning committee of the Tulane Corporate Law Institute, and was a member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute. He played an active role in the civic affairs of the City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana, having served as President of the Council for a Better Louisiana, as President of the New Orleans Bureau of Governmental Research, as a member of the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation. He was an active board member of a number of philanthropic organizations, including the Beauregard-Keyes House, served on the Board of Advisors of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and was a former Governor of the Society of Colonial Wars in Louisiana. He also served on the Board of Directors of City National Bank of Baton Rouge. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati and a longtime member of several New Orleans carnival organizations, the Baton Rouge Assembly, the Boston Club, of which he was a past President, New Orleans Country Club, the Louisiana Club, and the Pickwick Club. Visitation will be held at Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government St., Baton Rouge, on Wednesday, June 17, from 10 to 1, followed by burial in the Lemon-Jackson family cemetery in Laurel Hill. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to St. John's Episcopal Church, Laurel Hill (c/o Grace Episcopal Church, St. Francisville), the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, or a favorite charity.