John Volz Sr. was a prominent Louisiana

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 lawyer

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. He served as United States Attorney

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 of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

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 under both President

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 Jimmy Carter

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, a Democrat

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, and President Ronald Reagan

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, a Republican

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In the 1980s Volz prosecuted reputed Mafia

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 boss Carlos Marcello

Carlos Marcello

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, Louisiana

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 commissioner of administration

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 Charles E. Roemer, Orleans Parish District attorney

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 Harry Connick Sr., Louisiana legislative leader Michael H. O'Keefe Jr., and Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards

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Volz died on 2011 February 12 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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, after several years of failing health. His widow Daisy Volz announced that he was to be buried in New Orleans.