LeDoux E. Smith, Rapides Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, 
Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 403.  
Edited by Alc‚e Fortier, Lit.D.  
Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.    

LEDOUX E. SMITH   
Smith, LeDoux E., prominent citizen and financier; by birth and marriage 
connected with the ancient and honorable families of Louisiana and Virginia.  
Mr. Smith is eminently fitted for the high position of trust he is holding 
as treasurer of his native state. Alexandria, La., was the place of his 
birth, July 25, 1856. He is the son of Stokes A. Smith, M. D., of Mason 
county, Ky., who saw military service in the war with Mexico, and also 
in the Civil war, and who was on the staff of General Kirby Smith (1861-65).  
After the war with Mexico, Dr. Smith located in Alexandria and practised [sic] 
his profession. He served as president of the state board of health.  
In 1872 death closed his eventful career. Treasurer Smith's mother was 
Clara M. (Scott) Smith, daughter of Thomas C. Scott, from Charlotte county, 
Va., was born in Rapides parish, La. Her mother, Marie Laulette LeDoux, 
was a descendant of French Canadians who had settled in Louisiana. Mr. 
LeDoux Smith was educated in the public schools of the state; and for a 
number of years was engaged in farming in the parish of Rapides.  
Agricultural pursuits did not stand in the way of his keeping excellently 
informed of, and in touch with, the politics of his state, and he was so 
generally known and respected that in 1899 he was unanimously nominated 
for state treasurer and was elected the year following. For 4 years he 
served his state with such ability that if the law did not expressly 
forbid a second successive term as state treasurer, Mr. Smith would 
undoubtedly have been re-elected.  But he went before the people in 
the primary election of 1912 (January 23), and was nominated for treasurer.  
He is now holding his second term. Treasurer Smith married Sept. 14, 1896, 
Miss Mary Diggs Fitzhugh of Virginia, a descendant of Gen. George Washington's 
brother, John Augustine, and connected with the Lee family.