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|name=James Edward "Jim" Sudduth, I | |name=James Edward "Jim" Sudduth, I | ||
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|nationality=[[United States|American]] | |nationality=[[United States|American]] | ||
|office=[[Mayor]] of [[Lake Charles]], [[Louisiana]]<br> | |office=[[Mayor]] of [[Lake Charles]], [[Louisiana]]<br> | ||
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|occupation=Government employee | |occupation=Government employee | ||
|spouse= Norma Marie Bertrand Sudduth | |spouse= Norma Marie Bertrand Sudduth | ||
| − | |children= | + | |children=Sarita Sudduth Fahrmann<br> |
| − | James "Bo" Sudduth, II | + | Sandra Sudduth Pratt<br> |
| + | Sharon Sudduth Walker (deceased)<br> | ||
| + | James "Bo" Sudduth, II (deceased) | ||
| + | |religion=[[Roman Catholic]] | ||
|footnotes='''Note'':<br> | |footnotes='''Note'':<br> | ||
*Throughout non-consecutive terms as mayor of [[Lake Charles]], [[Louisiana]], James Sudduth is most remembered for the Sudduth Coliseum and the James Sudduth Parkway. | *Throughout non-consecutive terms as mayor of [[Lake Charles]], [[Louisiana]], James Sudduth is most remembered for the Sudduth Coliseum and the James Sudduth Parkway. | ||
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| − | '''James Edward Sudduth, I''', known as '''Jim Sudduth''' (August 15, 1917 – September 11, 1995),<ref name=searchancestry>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_r_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=James&gsln=Sudduth&mswpn__ftp=Lake%20Charles%2C%20Calcasieu%2C%20Louisiana%2C%20USA&mswpn=34088&mswpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C441%7C34088%7C0%7C&MSAV=1&msbdy=1917&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=upc|title=James E. Sudduth|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate= | + | '''James Edward Sudduth, I''', known as '''Jim Sudduth''' (August 15, 1917 – September 11, 1995),<ref name=searchancestry>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_r_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=James&gsln=Sudduth&mswpn__ftp=Lake%20Charles%2C%20Calcasieu%2C%20Louisiana%2C%20USA&mswpn=34088&mswpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C441%7C34088%7C0%7C&MSAV=1&msbdy=1917&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=upc|title=James E. Sudduth|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] who served two stints as the [[mayor]] of [[Lake Charles]] in far southwestern [[Louisiana]]. The 7,400-seat Sudduth Coliseum, which opened in 1972, is named in his honor, as is the James Sudduth Parkway. |
| + | [[File:James E. Sudduth Coliseum.jpg|450px|left|thumb|Inside the Sudduth Coliseum]] | ||
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==Career== | ==Career== | ||
| − | A [[Tennessee]] native, county unavailable.<ref name=searchancestry/> Sudduth was the city finance director<ref>{{cite | + | A [[Tennessee]] native, county unavailable.<ref name=searchancestry/> Sudduth was the city finance director<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3nlBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=James+Sudduth+of+Lake+Charles&source=bl&ots=NVr1NZmD9c&sig=PMjctMjJsQoi-q9OBYEsDtmkhyw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8qWeVbqnGYmsogSnkrO4Bg&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCTgU#v=onepage&q=James%20Sudduth%20of%20Lake%20Charles&f=false|title=Lake Charles|author=Jessica Hutchings|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]|date=2015|page=36|isbn=978-1-4671-1328-1|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> and from 1965 to 1973 the mayor of Lake Charles. He stepped down with a year remaining in his term to take the director's position at the Port of Lake Charles. He was succeeded by council member William Edwin "Bill" Boyer (c. 1931-1999), a stepson of former [[Governor]] [[Sam Houston Jones]] and brother of [[Robert G. Jones]], a former member of both houses of the Louisiana state legislature.<ref>William E. Boyer obituary, ''The Lake Charles American Press,'' September 9, 2020.</ref> |
| − | In his second year as mayor in 1966, Sudduth was quizzed by Joseph B. Flanagan, a city council member regarding the existence of the city sewerage board. Flanagan questioned the extension of sewerage services outside the city limits when Sudduth authorized a convenience store on West McNeese Street to use the city main with payment for the attachment and thereafter an annual fee. Flanagan claimed that the sewerage board should have been consulted, but Sudduth countered that the board was no longer valid under a revised municipal charter. At any rate, the attachment cost the city nothing, Sudduth stressed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2081775/|title=Mayor sees no need for sewerage board|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=May 13, 1966|page=3|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> In 1967, the city council directed Sudduth to consider the purchase of used buses for the city's ten-vehicle fleet at a cost of as much as $26,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/7896316/|title=Council to face fifteen items at meet|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|date=March 10, 1967|page=21|accessdate= | + | In his second year as mayor in 1966, Sudduth was quizzed by Joseph B. Flanagan (1915-2002), a city council member regarding the existence of the city sewerage board. Flanagan questioned the extension of sewerage services outside the city limits when Sudduth authorized a convenience store on West McNeese Street to use the city main with payment for the attachment and thereafter an annual fee. Flanagan claimed that the sewerage board should have been consulted, but Sudduth countered that the board was no longer valid under a revised municipal charter. At any rate, the attachment cost the city nothing, Sudduth stressed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2081775/|title=Mayor sees no need for sewerage board|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=May 13, 1966|page=3|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> In 1967, the city council directed Sudduth to consider the purchase of used buses for the city's ten-vehicle fleet at a cost of as much as $26,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/7896316/|title=Council to face fifteen items at meet|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|date=March 10, 1967|page=21|accessdate=August 30, 2020}}</ref> That same year, Sudduth was asked why Lake Charles then had no [[African-American]] firefighters though it had some black police officers. He replied that while he had encouraged blacks to take the civil service exam, none had yet passed the screening.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/7896510/|title=The Informer|page=1|date=March 11, 1967|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> |
| − | On April 1, 1989, Sudduth returned as mayor when he unseated fellow Democrat Edward S. "Ed" Watson, 11,497 (55.2 percent) to 9,321 (44.8 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, April 1, 1989.</ref>{{cite web|url=http://cityoflakecharles.com/egov/docs/1192479718590.htm|title=Mayors of Lake Charles|publisher=cityoflakecharles.com|accessdate=July 9, 2015}}</ref> In 1990, Sudduth founded the Women’s Commission of Southwest Louisiana, Inc., with the regional mission "to empower women."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20080924/NEWS/309249867|title=Women’s Commission of SWLA: Working to empower women|publisher=''McPherson ([[Kansas]]) Sentinel''|date=September 24, 2008|author=Marilyn Monroe|publisher=mcphersonsentinel.com|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> Robert M. McHale, Jr., a native of [[Youngstown]], [[Ohio]], who came to Lake Charles through Chennault Air Force Base, was the city attorney under both Mayors Sudduth and Boyer. McHale was also counsel for the Port of Lake Charles and the city Housing Authority.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=41790027|title=Robert M. McHale, Jr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> | + | On April 1, 1989, Sudduth returned as mayor when he unseated fellow Democrat Edward S. "Ed" Watson, 11,497 (55.2 percent) to 9,321 (44.8 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, April 1, 1989.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cityoflakecharles.com/egov/docs/1192479718590.htm|title=Mayors of Lake Charles|publisher=cityoflakecharles.com|accessdate=July 9, 2015}}</ref> In 1990, Sudduth founded the Women’s Commission of Southwest Louisiana, Inc., with the regional mission "to empower women."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20080924/NEWS/309249867|title=Women’s Commission of SWLA: Working to empower women|publisher=''McPherson ([[Kansas]]) Sentinel''|date=September 24, 2008|author=Marilyn Monroe|publisher=mcphersonsentinel.com|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> Robert M. McHale, Jr., a native of [[Youngstown]], [[Ohio]], who came to Lake Charles through Chennault Air Force Base, was the city attorney under both Mayors Sudduth and Boyer. McHale was also counsel for the Port of Lake Charles and the city Housing Authority.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=41790027|title=Robert M. McHale, Jr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> |
==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
| − | Sudduth was married to the former Norma Marie Bertrand (1919-1993), who was living in 1935 in Rayne in Acadia Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_r_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=Norma%20B.&gsln=Sudduth&mswpn__ftp=Lake%20Charles%2C%20Calcasieu%2C%20Louisiana%2C%20USA&mswpn=|title=Sudduth |publisher= | + | Sudduth was married to the former Norma Marie Bertrand (1919-1993), who was living in 1935 in Rayne in Acadia Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_r_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=Norma%20B.&gsln=Sudduth&mswpn__ftp=Lake%20Charles%2C%20Calcasieu%2C%20Louisiana%2C%20USA&mswpn=|title=Norma Sudduth |publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> Their son, James "Bo" Sudduth, II (1959-2019) was an [[accountant]] who was married from 1984 to 1993 to the former Pamela Meche, since Pamela Pelafigue (born July 1960).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/20021403820so2d58311376|title=''Pelafigue v. Sudduth|publisher=Leagle.com|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> Their son and Mayor Sudduth's grandson, James Sudduth, III (born August 1987), a graduate of [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]], has served as an assistant district attorney for Calcasieu Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.calcasieuda.com/community-news/|title=John DeRosier Swears in New Assistant District Attorney|publisher=calcasieuda.com|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> |
| − | James and Norma Sudduth, who died two years apart, are interred at Consolata Cemetery in Lake Charles.<ref>{{cite web|url= | + | James and Norma Sudduth, who died two years apart, are interred at Consolata Cemetery in Lake Charles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34891610/james-sudduth|title=James Sudduth|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=August 30, 2020}}</ref> |
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[[Category:Mayors]] | [[Category:Mayors]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:24, December 20, 2020
| James Edward "Jim" Sudduth, I | |
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| In office 1965–1973 | |
| Preceded by | Alfred E. Roberts |
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| Succeeded by | William Edwin "Bill" Boyer |
| In office 1989–1993 | |
| Preceded by | Edward S. "Ed" Watson |
| Succeeded by | Willie Mount |
| Born | August 15, 1917 Tennessee, USA |
| Died | September 11, 1995 (aged 78) Lake Charles, Louisiana |
| Resting place | Consolata Cemetery in Lake Charles |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democrat |
| Spouse(s) | Norma Marie Bertrand Sudduth |
| Children | Sarita Sudduth Fahrmann Sandra Sudduth Pratt |
| Occupation | Government employee |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
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James Edward Sudduth, I, known as Jim Sudduth (August 15, 1917 – September 11, 1995),[1] was a Democrat who served two stints as the mayor of Lake Charles in far southwestern Louisiana. The 7,400-seat Sudduth Coliseum, which opened in 1972, is named in his honor, as is the James Sudduth Parkway.
Career
A Tennessee native, county unavailable.[1] Sudduth was the city finance director[2] and from 1965 to 1973 the mayor of Lake Charles. He stepped down with a year remaining in his term to take the director's position at the Port of Lake Charles. He was succeeded by council member William Edwin "Bill" Boyer (c. 1931-1999), a stepson of former Governor Sam Houston Jones and brother of Robert G. Jones, a former member of both houses of the Louisiana state legislature.[3]
In his second year as mayor in 1966, Sudduth was quizzed by Joseph B. Flanagan (1915-2002), a city council member regarding the existence of the city sewerage board. Flanagan questioned the extension of sewerage services outside the city limits when Sudduth authorized a convenience store on West McNeese Street to use the city main with payment for the attachment and thereafter an annual fee. Flanagan claimed that the sewerage board should have been consulted, but Sudduth countered that the board was no longer valid under a revised municipal charter. At any rate, the attachment cost the city nothing, Sudduth stressed.[4] In 1967, the city council directed Sudduth to consider the purchase of used buses for the city's ten-vehicle fleet at a cost of as much as $26,000.[5] That same year, Sudduth was asked why Lake Charles then had no African-American firefighters though it had some black police officers. He replied that while he had encouraged blacks to take the civil service exam, none had yet passed the screening.[6]
On April 1, 1989, Sudduth returned as mayor when he unseated fellow Democrat Edward S. "Ed" Watson, 11,497 (55.2 percent) to 9,321 (44.8 percent).[7][8] In 1990, Sudduth founded the Women’s Commission of Southwest Louisiana, Inc., with the regional mission "to empower women."[9] Robert M. McHale, Jr., a native of Youngstown, Ohio, who came to Lake Charles through Chennault Air Force Base, was the city attorney under both Mayors Sudduth and Boyer. McHale was also counsel for the Port of Lake Charles and the city Housing Authority.[10]
Personal life
Sudduth was married to the former Norma Marie Bertrand (1919-1993), who was living in 1935 in Rayne in Acadia Parish.[11] Their son, James "Bo" Sudduth, II (1959-2019) was an accountant who was married from 1984 to 1993 to the former Pamela Meche, since Pamela Pelafigue (born July 1960).[12] Their son and Mayor Sudduth's grandson, James Sudduth, III (born August 1987), a graduate of Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge, has served as an assistant district attorney for Calcasieu Parish.[13]
James and Norma Sudduth, who died two years apart, are interred at Consolata Cemetery in Lake Charles.[14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 James E. Sudduth. search.ancestry.com. Retrieved on August 31, 2020.
- ↑ Jessica Hutchings (2015). Lake Charles. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-4671-1328-1. Retrieved on August 31, 2020.
- ↑ William E. Boyer obituary, The Lake Charles American Press, September 9, 2020.
- ↑ Mayor sees no need for sewerage board. Lake Charles American-Press (May 13, 1966). Retrieved on August 31, 2020.
- ↑ Council to face fifteen items at meet. Lake Charles American Press (March 10, 1967). Retrieved on August 30, 2020.
- ↑ The Informer. Lake Charles American Press (March 11, 1967). Retrieved on August 31, 2020.
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, April 1, 1989.
- ↑ Mayors of Lake Charles. cityoflakecharles.com. Retrieved on July 9, 2015.
- ↑ Marilyn Monroe (September 24, 2008). Women’s Commission of SWLA: Working to empower women. mcphersonsentinel.com. Retrieved on August 31, 2020.
- ↑ Robert M. McHale, Jr.. findagrave.com. Retrieved on August 31, 2020.
- ↑ Norma Sudduth. search.ancestry.com. Retrieved on August 31, 2020.
- ↑ Pelafigue v. Sudduth. Leagle.com. Retrieved on August 31, 2020.
- ↑ John DeRosier Swears in New Assistant District Attorney. calcasieuda.com. Retrieved on August 31, 2020.
- ↑ James Sudduth. Findagrave.com. Retrieved on August 30, 2020.