Yandell Boatner, Marshall Co., MS., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000






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Yandell Boatner is a resident of Shreveport, is former United States 

district attorney, and saw active service as a young lieutenant in 

the World war.



He was born at Bethlehem, Marshall County, Mississippi, in 1892, son 

of Dr. Frank P. and Mary Elizabeth (Wills) Boatner.  He grew up in 

the home of a professional man, and as a youth determined to carve 

out his career in the State of Louisiana, where he came to complete 

his education.  Mr. Boatner graduated with the Bachelor of Arts 

degree from the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1913, 

and continued his law course there, getting his Bachelor of Laws 

degree in 1916.  After a few months of experience as a young attorney 

he entered in April, 1917, the First Officers Training School at Fort 

Logan H. Roots, Arkansas, was commissioned a second lieutenant, and 

assigned to duty in the Three Hundred and Thirty-fourth Field Artillery

, stationed at Camp Pike, Arkansas.  This organization was attached 

to the Eighty-seventh Division, and with that division Mr. Boatner 

went overseas in the summer of 1918 and saw active service in France 

before the armistice.  He returned home and received his honorable 

discharge in March, 1919.



Following his release from army service Mr. Boatner located at 

Shreveport and practiced for a time as a member of the law firm of 

Johnson and Boatner.  In the closing month of the Wilson administration 

he was appointed assistant United States attorney for the western 

district of Louisiana, a subsequently was advanced to United States 

district attorney in the same district, and handled many Cases of 

much importance under the jurisdiction of the Federal Department of 

Justice for several months.  After resigning this office he resumed 

private practice, and he and his partner.  Mr. J. C. Pugh, as Pugh 

and Boatner, comprised a firm of very high rank at Shreveport, 

confining their attention to general civil practice.



Mr. Boatner is vice president of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce 

and chairman of its committee of legislation.  He also belongs to the 

Shreveport Gulf and Country Club, and is a Scottish Rite Mason and 

Shriner, and member of the American Legion.  By his marriage to Miss 

Frances Robertson, of Baton Rouge, he has a son, Randell, Jr., and a 

daughter, Frances Robertson.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 138-139, by Henry E. Chambers.  

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