Biography of Hon. Tandy Tatum Webb; Barbour County, AL., then Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 230, by Henry E. Chambers.
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 



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Hon. Tandy Tatum Webb, for three terms a member of the Legislature from
Ouachita Parish, is a veteran business man of Monroe, where his name has
been prominently associated with real estate transactions for over a
quarter of a century.

Mr. Webb was born in Barbour County, Alabama, November 4, 1857, son of
Dr. I. P. and Fannie (Bonnell) Webb.  It was in the Bonnell home, among
his mother's people, that Mr. Webb was born.  His father's home at that
time was across time river in Muskogee County, Georgia, near Columbus. 
Dr. I. P. Webb was gifted with various talents.  Removing to Louisiana
with his family in 1858, he first located about nine miles north of
Coushatta, in what is now Red River Parish, then a part of Natchitoches
Parish.  While there he organized a company and went into Confederate
service, participating in the Red River campaign, and was at time battles
of Pleasant Hill and Mansfield.  After time war he chose as his home place
old Sparta, then the parish scat of Bienville Parish.  In addition to the
practice of medicine he conducted a plantation and a mercantile business
and exercised a noteworthy influence in the affairs of his district.  He
was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1879, a member of the
Legislature, was president of the parish police jury and parish school
board, and was chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee.  Doctor
Webb died in 1913.

Tandy Tatum Webb was an infant when his parents came to Louisiana.  His
school education was acquired at Sparta, Homer and Mount Lebanon.  Leaving
Sparta, he located at Minden, in Webster Parish, and was a citizen there
about fifteen years.  During that time he was for four years parish assessor.

Since coming to Monroe, in 1898, Mr. Webb has been engaged in the real
estate business.  That has been his principal occupation, but he is perhaps
best known in the parish for his long continued and able service in the
Legislature.  He was three times elected to represent Ouachita Parish in
the House of Representatives, in 1916, 1920 and 1924.  He has been a student
of the legislative program and of the best interests of his parish and state,
and has given time to his duties that meant the sacrifice of his pecuniary
interests and home, in the session of 1924 he was chairman of time committee
on contingent expenses.  This gave him an opportunity to exercise his studied
policy of enforcing strict economy in all matters of state government.
He blocked many proposals for useless and extravagant expenditure in many
bills that were considered by this committee.  He was also a member of the
committees on municipal corporations, parochial affairs, pensions and militia,

Mr. Webb married Miss Florence Wilkins of Minden, La.  They have two
daughters, Mrs. Nellie Bubb and Miss Carol 0. Webb.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 230, by Henry E. Chambers.
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 

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