Capt. W. Scott Wilkinson, Red River Parish, Louisiana
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Capt. W. Scott Wilkinson, who served with the rank of captain of artillery in France during the 
World war, had just qualified for practice as an attorney before he entered the Officers Training 
camp, and since the war has given close attention to a growing practice as a member of the 
Shreveport bar.

He is a son of John D. Wilkinson, long a prominent figure at the Louisiana bar.  For many years 
he practiced at Coushatta, in Red River Parish, representing that parish in both Houses of the 
Legislature.  Since 1900 he has practiced law in Shreveport.  He was a member of former State 
Constitutional Convention, while his wife, Alice May (Scott) Wilkinson, served as a woman 
member of the Constitutional Convention of 1921.  Alice May (Scott) Wilkinson is, like her 
husband, a native of Louisiana, and one of the prominent women of the state.  Her time and 
efforts have been liberally bestowed upon many enterprises of more than local value.  She was 
a pioneer in the movement to conserve the forests of Louisiana.  She was chairman of the 
forestry committee of the Louisiana Federation of Woman's Clubs.

Capt. W. Scott Wilkinson was born at Coushatta, in Red River Parish, February 5, 1895, and was 
about five years of age when the family moved to Shreveport.  He attended public schools in 
that city, and graduated from the Louisiana State University in 1917 in the arts and sciences 
as well as in time law courses.  In the spring of that year he was admitted to the bar, about 
the same time he entered the First Officers Training Camp at Fort Logan H. Root in May, 1917.  
He was commissioned a second lieutenant and in August, 1917, was transferred to Fortress 
Monroe, and subsequently was promoted to first lieutenant and then to captain.  With the rank 
of captain he went overseas in September, 1918, with the Fiftieth Artillery, Thirty-sixth 
Brigade, which was unattached to any division.  Following the armistice he was in command of 
the Headquarters Company of the Fiftieth Artillery, and subsequently was battalion adjutant.  
Captain Wilkinson returned home in February, 1919, and was discharged at Fort Hamilton.  He is 
now an officer, with the rank of captain, in the Army Reserve Corps, and has command of Battery 
D of the Five Hundred and Forty-fifth Anti-Aircraft Artillery.

Captain Wilkinson since the war has practiced as a member of the firm Wilkinson, Lewis and 
Wilkinson, doing a busy general practice with offices in the Slattery Building at Shreveport. 
Captain Wilkinson represented Caddo Parish in the Legislature for four years, 1920-24.
He married Margaret West of Corsicana, Texas, on April 9, 1919, and of this union one child a 
daughter, Susybelle, was born on October 5, 1923.

Captain Wilkinson is a member of the Board of Directors of the First Baptist Church of 
Shreveport, Louisiana, and is secretary of the church organization.  He is a member of Sigma 
Nu, a national college fraternity, and a member of the American Legion,

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 33, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 

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