J. Fair Hardin, Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000






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J. Fair Hardin is a native of Louisiana, has been a member of the bar 

for a decade, and for nearly three years was in the service of the 

government as an officer with the American forces overseas and at home.





Mr. Hardin, who has his law offices in the Sinclair Building at Shreveport,

 was born at Mansfield, October 27, 1893, son of Thomas R. and Sarah 

Moore (Fair) Hardin.  His maternal grandfather, Dr. James W. Fair, was 

an old time citizen of North Louisiana, and for many years practiced 

medicine at Mansfield.  On both the maternal and paternal lines he is 

a descendant of Revolutionary ancestors and a member of the Sons of the 

American Revolution.



J. Fair Hardin after local school education was sent east to Kentucky,

 and attended the Kentucky Wesleyan College at Winchester, where he was

 graduated in 1911.  His law studies were pursued in the office of his 



brother, C. E. Hardin, at Leesville, Louisiana, and in 1915 came his 

admission to the bar.  For about two years he practiced with his brother 

at Leesville.



On April 6, 1917, the day America declared war on Germany, Mr. Hardin 

enlisted as a private in Company C of the First Louisiana Infantry, 

National Guard.  His regiment was taken into the national Army as the 

One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Infantry, part of the Thirty-ninth Division.  

Mr. Hardin was in training at Camp Nichols in New Orleans, then at 

Camp Beauregard at Alexandria, and from private was promoted to second 

lieutenant, later first lieutenant and finally to the rank of 

infantry.  He went overseas with the rank of tam in command of Company 

G of the One Hundred and Fifty-third Infantry in July, 1918.  In France, 

the One Hundred Fifty-third became a part of the Fifth Depot Division, 

and in October, 1918, Captain Hardin was detailed for duty in the Judge 

Advocate General's office at the headquarters of the Thirty-ninth Division.  

He served there until the division returned home soon after the armistice,

and was then transferred to the general headquarters of the American 

Expeditionary Forces at Chaumont, where likewise he was retained in the 

Judge Advocate General's Department, and later was sent to Paris, when 

the general headquarters were removed to that city.  His duties kept 

him overseas until October, 1919, and after his return to America he 

was stationed at Washington until his discharge, January 20, 1920, more 

than two years and nine months after he entered service.  After his 

discharge he was commissioned a captain in the Judge Advocate General's 

Department, Officers Reserve Corps, in which he was subsequently promoted 

to the rank of major, which he now holds.  In July, 1924, he was appointed 

by Governor Fuqua as Judge Advocate General of the Louisiana National Guard.



Since October, 1921, Captain Hardin has been associated in the general 

practice of law with Judge James G. Palmer of Shreveport under the firm 

name of Palmer and Hardin.  During 1920 and 1921 he was assistant United 

States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. Captain Hardin is 

a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a very popular 

member of the social and civic community of Shreveport.  He is a member 

of the Louisiana Historical Society and of the Louisiana and American 

Bar Associations.  He married Miss Mary Hannah Hudson.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 134-135, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.