Foster, James M.;  Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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Foster, James M., a distinguished member of the Shreveport bar, and 
son of the late James M. and Eleanor (Long) Foster, was born in 
Shreveport, La., Jan. 28, 1871, and was educated in Thatcher's 
Military academy at Shreveport, and after a 3 years' course in 
the academic department of the University of Virginia, entered 
the law department of Tulane university of Louisiana and graduated 
therefrom in 1893.  Immediately after he began the practice of 
law at Shreveport.  He served with credit as a member of the lower 
house of the Louisiana general assembly from 1900 to 1904, and 
in the latter year he was elected district attorney for the first 
judicial district, and held the position for 8 years, his service 
in this office being such as to place him in the rank of the ablest 
of those who have served the state as a district attorney.  In 1912 
he was a delegate to the national Democratic convention, and as the 
representative of Louisiana served as a member of the committee that 
notified Woodrow Wilson of his nomination for President.  He was 
elected an alternate delegate to the national Democratic convention 
in 1904, and in all the years of his manhood Mr. Foster has been 
active in behalf of the Democratic party. He is a member of the 
wholesale grocery firm of Foster-Glaswell of Shreveport and in the 
affairs, business, professional and public, in the city of Shreveport 
he is numbered among the progressive citizens.  Fraternally Mr. Foster 
is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective 
Order of Elks, and his church faith is that of the Presbyterian.

Source:  Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, 
Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic 
Form (volume 3), p. 173.  Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  
Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.