T. Wynn Holloman; Phoenix, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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T. Wynn Holloman.  The legal profession has many distinguished representatives 
throughout Louisiana, whose prestige is well established, and whose reputation 
for probity is unquestioned.  These gentlemen are not all located in the big 
cities, but are to be found all over the state, and among them one worthy of 
special mention in this connection is T. Wynn Holloman of Alexandria, a 
veteran of the World war, and good citizen of Rapides Parish.

T. Wynn Holloman was born at Phoenix, Mississippi, October 4, 1880, a son of 
T. A. and Julia (White) Holloman, natives of Mississippi and Louisiana, 
respectively.  They were married in Louisiana. After her death, the father 
was married a second time.  He is still living and makes his home with T. 
Wynn Holloman, who was his only child by his first marriage.  The father 
was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Mississippi, but is now retired.  One 
of his sons by his second marriage, Warren Emory Holloman, was a member of 
the Alexandria bar, enlisted for service in the World war.  While he was 
not killed in action, he died in April, 1923, from injuries received while 
overseas.  While in the service he was commissioned a first lieutenant.  
Two other brothers also served in the army, one in the engineers overseas 
and the other in the flying corps, where he reached the rank of second 
lieutenant.  The father has long been very active in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, South, and in politics he is a democrat.  The paternal grandfather 
of T. Wynn Holloman was John B. Holloman, a native of Missouri, but of 
Virginian ancestry.  In 1843 John B. Holloman migrated to Mississippi, and 
there he was engaged in farming the remainder of his life.  The maternal 
grandfather of T. Wynn Holloman was Benjamin F. White, a native of Tennessee,
and a veteran of the Mexican war, and of the War of the '60s, in which he 
served with the rank of captain.  In times of peace he was a preacher of 
the Gospel, and as a circuit rider of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 
he was as zealous in behalf of religion as he had been with reference to 
the defense of his country in its time of need.  Several of his brothers 
were also circuit riders.

T. Wynn Holloman attended the local schools of his native state, and Millsaps 
College, where he received the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws, 
and then, returning to the home of his ancestors, took his legal training in 
the University of Virginia, and was admitted to the bar of Louisiana in 1903.  
Beginning his practice with the old-fashioned law firm of White & Thornton, 
he was later taken into partnership, the firm becoming White, Thornton & 
Holloman. Subsequently the name was changed to the present one of White, 
Holloman & White, one of the strongest legal combinations in this part of 
Louisiana.  The partners are men of resourcefulness, ability and integrity, 
and they are associated with some of the most important cases in weir part 
of the state.

In 1907 Mr. Holloman was married to Charlie Davidson, who was born in Rapides 
Parish, a daughter of H. Davidson, a prominent merchant of Alexandria, and a 
planter of the parish.  Mr. and Mrs. Holloman have one daughter, Wynnfred, 
who is attending school.  Early uniting with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
South, in whose faith he had been reared, Mr. Holloman has long been active 
in it, and for twenty years he has been superintendent of its Sunday school 
at Alexandria.  Very high in Masonry he has passed all of the bodies of both 
the York and Scottish Rites in that order, and is now a Knight Templar, 
thirty-second degree and Shriner Mason.  He is past eminent commander of 
Trinity Commandery, Knight Templars.  While at college he made Kappa Alpha 
Greek letter fraternity, and he also belongs to the Woodmen of the World.  
In 1923 he was elected to the Louisiana State Legislature on the democratic 
ticket, and while a member of the Lower House served as chairman of the 
Judiciary Committee.  For a number of years he has been a potent factor in 
local democratic politics, and since his service in the House, his reputation 
in this connection has been strengthened, and it is no longer confined to the 
bounds of his home parish.  Mr. Holloman carries on a general civil and criminal 
practice. In addition to its demands he finds time to serve as a director of 
the Alexandria Bank & Trust Company.  Although beyond the age for compulsory 
military service, when this country entered the World war Mr. Holloman felt 
it his duty to do what he could for those who were enrolled, and therefore 
offered his services to the Young Men's Christian Association, they were 
accepted, and he went overseas with a unit of that organization, and until 
there was no further need for his offices, served faithfully in the "Y' huts, 
and wherever he was needed.  Honorably discharged, he returned to private life 
and his practice.  He is a man who is not content with merely being honest 
and upright in his dealings with his fellow man, for he takes his civic 
responsibilities seriously, and carries his religion into his everyday work, 
so that his influence is a worthy one, and he accomplishes a large amount of
 good in his home city and parish.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 213, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and 
New York, 1925.