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Endowed Chairs for Eminent Scholars program in higher education and the LSU Endowment for Excellence, pioneered admission standards for LSU, and laws regarding open meetings and public records. He was the lead author on legislation to prevent punitive damages on the press.
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Guarisco, the owner since 1996 of
Guarisco Enterprises LLC, and his second wife, the former Sherry Lynelle Spivey (born c. 1951), the owner of SSG Consulting Services, live in Baton Rouge. Guarisco has three children from his first marriage to the former Sherry Perdue: Carla Maria Guarisco, Anthony
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Guarisco served briefly on the boards of both the former Guaranty Bank and Trust
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Prior to 2011, Guarisco was the manager and minority owner of the former
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family in Morgan City. One of their progenitors, Victor
Guarisco (1879-1972) established a large shrimp company in Morgan City and later the Gulf Marine Drilling Company to build offshore oil supply boats.
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dual citizen as well as a citizen of the
European Union, whose father was Anthony J. Guarisco, Sr. (1910–2002); his mother, the former Nathalie Verret (1913-1991). The Guariscos are a large extended
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