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Jesse S. Cave was briefly acting mayor of New Orleans from July 15 to August 17 1936.Cave arrived in New Orleans in 1904 as a manager of an iron cistern company and was elected president of the New Orleans Board of Trade in 1930. In 1932 he was elected Louisiana State Treasurer.Along with A. Miles Pratt and Fred A. Earhart Cave was one of three acting mayors who served in the summer of 1936 between the resignation of Mayor T.