John W. A. Jeter, Vicksburg, MS., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000





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John W. A. Jeter, who for three years was president of the Louisiana 

State Tax Assessors' Association, is a resident of Shreveport, holds 

the office of tax assessor of Caddo Parish, and through his experience 

in that office has come to be regarded one of the ablest authorities 

on all matters connected with assessments and taxation.



Mr. Jeter was born at Vicksburg, Mississippi, April 30, 1880, was 

educated in public schools, and has been a resident of Shreveport since 

1887.  His business experience brought him a familiarity with accounting 

and administrative routine, and in 1916 he was elected for his first 

term as tax assessor of Caddo Parish.  He has been reelected every four 

years since, beginning his third consecutive term in January, 1925.  

Besides the honor conferred upon him of election as president of the 

Louisiana State Tax Assessors' Association for three years he was a 

member and secretary of the Assessment Commission of the State of 

Louisiana in 1921, a commission created for the purpose of advising the 

State Constitutional Convention of that year on all matters relating to 

taxation and assessing.



Out of his experience in the office of tax assessor Mr. Jeter prepared 

a book entitled, "Assessment Taxation in Shreveport and Caddo Parish," 

is a pamphlet prepared originally for information to property owners 

and taxpayers in Shreveport and the parish, but its contents proved so 

unique and such a valuable contribution on this subject that d has been 

adopted as a sidelight on economy of various schools and has been used 

in the reference libraries of all the leading schools on economics in 

the country.



Mr. Jeter has been a life long democrat.  He is executive secretary of 

the Shreveport Young Christian Association, and is a member of the Board 

of Deacons of the First Presbyterian Church.  During the World war he 

participated in all the drives and campaigns in Caddo Parish, being vice 

chairman of the War Savings Stamp Committee, and district director of the 

United War Works Campaigns, is a past master of the Masonic Lodge, past 

priest of the Royal Arch Chapter, and has chairs in various bodies of the 

York and Scottish Rites and the Mystic Shrine.  He is also a member of 

the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Moose and the Woodmen of 

the World.  Mr. Jeter married Miss Flora Brown, of New Orleans.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 132-133, by Henry E. Chambers.  

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