Hon. Coleman Lindsey, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Hon. Coleman Lindsey is a member of the State Senate from Webster 
Parish.  He has made a mark in his profession as an attorney, and he has 
had an unusual public experience and service in his native state.  Mr. 
Lindsey did not begin the study of law until he was married and had 
two children, and has made his success in a remarkably brief time.

He was born in that part of Calcasieu Parish that is now Beauregard 
Parish, in 1892, son of Rufus B. and Ella (Hamilton) Lindsey.  His 
father was born in what is now Webster but was originally a part of 
Claiborne Parish.

Coleman Lindsey spent his early years on a farm, as a boy also lived 
for a time at De Ridder, and he attended what was known as the Ten 
Mile School and the Oakdale High School, in Allen Parish.  He served 
as assistant state treasurer under Mr. Howell Morgan, and in 1921 
represented Allen Parish as a member of the Constitutional Convention.

In the meantime he was studying law in the Louisiana State University, 
graduating with his law degree in 1921.  After finishing his course he 
came to Minden and has since been associated in practice with Mr. R. 
H. Lee, a prominent lawyer and district attorney.  The firm is Lee & 
Lindsey, and has an extensive general practice of the law in the 
northern part of the state.

After a residence of only two years in Webster Parish, Coleman 
Lindsey was honored by election as state senator from the Twenty-sixth 
Senatorial district, composed of Webster and Bossier parishes.  In the 
session of the Senate of 1924 he was chairman of the committee on 
health, quarantine, drainage and charitable institutions; was vice 
chairman 't the committee on state banks and banking; and a member of 
the committees on corporations, parochial and municipal affairs; 
elections, qualifications and registrations; the judiciary, section B 
railroads, insurance and industries.  He was also honored by being 
appointed one of the committee of five from the State Senate who acted 
in conjunction with the committee of the City of Baton Rouge for the 
inaugural ceremonies for Governor Henry L. Fuqua.

Mr. Lindsey is a Knights Templar Mason and Shriner.  He married 
Miss Cora Herring, and they have three children, Rufus, Douglas and 
Lewis.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 169, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New 
York, 1925.