James Andrews, Rapides Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson 

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana Nashville 
and Chicago, The Southern Publishing Company 1890    

JAMES ANDREWS  
James Andrews, dist attorney of the Twelfth Judicial District was born in Rapides 
Parish, February 23, 1847, being a son of Hon. James Rogers and Lucretia M. 
(Davidson) Andrews, natives of South Carolina dn Georgia, respectively, the former 
a planter by occupation, and a man who took much interest in the political history 
of this locality, serving in the State Legislature through the administration of Gov. 
Thomas O. Moore. He was a son of Michael Andrews. James Andrews, the immediate 
subject of this sketch, was the fifth of eight children four sons an four daughters - 
of whom two sons and two daughters survive. He grew to mature years on his father's 
plantation, and at the age of seventeen years entered the Confederate Army, and served 
faithfully until the close of the war. In 1869 he began teaching the young idea, and 
at the same time read law and was admitted tot he bar for the office of T. C. Manning 
(afterward Chief Justice Manning) in 1875, after which he began practicing his profession 
in Alexandria. He served as mayor of the town in 1880-82, but in September of the latter 
year resigned to accept the position of assessor of Rapides Parish, being appointed by 
Gov. S. D. McEnery, a position he held until 1884, at which time he was reappointed.  
He resigned this office in 1888, and in April of the same year he was elected district 
attorney, the duties of which office he is now discharging, proving himself a faithful, 
efficient and satisfactory public officer. His marriage which occurred in this parish 
in 1874 was to Miss Laura Holt, a native of this parish, a daughter of John and Catherine 
(Walker) Holt, and a grand daughter of Gov. Joseph Walker of Louisiana. They have living 
three children: Laura Holt, James Rogers and Elmore Lewis.