RED RIVER PARISH BIOGRAPHIES - THOMAS, J. L. S. 
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Submitted by: Carolyn Shank
carolynshank@msn. com 
Submitted: September 9, 2007, 9:15 pm

Source: La. Oil and Gas Journal
Date: Pub.ca. 1920

Title: J. L. S. THOMAS

   While the people of Louisiana in their sovereignty have decreed that they 
will not have a Constitutional Convention and the delegates elected from all 
over this fair State will never be called upon for service, still the honor 
conferred upon men chosen by them remains, and will go down in the State's 
history.

   Red River Parish bestowed this coveted distinction upon MR. J. L. S. 
THOMAS, of Coushatta, who is the first man in the State, perhaps to be written 
in this connection. MR. THOMAS is a quiet and conservative man, thoroughly 
posted, well balanced and very popular throughout the parish. The fact that he 
has been a Deputy Sheriff of Red River Parish for fifteen years is convincing 
proof that he is a man hard to beat. Anyone seeking information of almost any 
kind in Red River Parish is referred to MR. THOMAS, who is never too busy -- 
and the sheriff's office is a pretty busy place, all right -- to impart what 
he can from a well filled storehouse of facts statistical, political and 
otherwise. He was born in Bienville Parish, educated in country schools and 
was a practical farmer for fifteen years, in fact until he went into the 
sheriff's office. Since then sheriffs have come and sheriffs have gone, but 
MR. THOMAS remained a fixture. What he don't know about its duties after all 
these years in the saddle wouldn't take long to tell. No one has yet risen up 
to make a motion to supplant or succeed him and probably never will. He is now 
serving his fifth term as member of the State Democratic Committee for Red 
River and his second term as Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, 
and various other positions of prominence in parish affairs.

   In fraternal circles Mr. Thomas is quite prominent, holding offices in 
local and grand lodges both in the Masonic Order and Knights of Pythias, and 
in his quiet way brings into these fraternities a spirit of devotion to 
service that is his chief characteristic. 

Additional Comments:
Note: There is a Jim Thomas (1892-1940) who is buried with his wife, Annie 
Lee, in the Holly Springs Cemetery. Perhaps someone can tell us whether or not 
this is the J. L. S. Thomas of the biography published in this old La. Oil and 
Gas Journal. We do not have the date of issue, but we know it was well before 
1924, when W. H. Elliott (sheriff at the time of the publication) died.   



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