Biography of J. S. Brock,   Washington Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Frances Ball Turner (gturner@WORLDACCESSNET.COM)


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From History of Louisiana, by Chambers in 1925
Vol. III, pg. 377

J. S. BROCK, state bank commissioner of Louisiana, took up banking in early
manhood in his native Parish of Washington, and has had a consecutive and
successful experience in the business and profession for twenty years.  He
has been connected with the state department of banks of the past ten
years.

Mr. BROCK was born in Washington Parish in 1881, son of Dr. J. M. and
Ametha (HOLMES) BROCK, his father a native of Louisiana and his mother of
Mississippi.  His father through a long period of years carried on the
practice of medicine and was an esteemed and loved figure in his community.
J. S. BROCK is a brother of J.V. BROCK, a prominent lawyer at Franklinton,
who served as district attorney.

J. S. BROCK was educated in the Franklinton Central Institute and in a
commercial college at Nashville, and his first business experience was in a
country store in Washington Parish.  Having assisted in the organization of
a bank there, he became its cashier, but the experience that gave him his
broadest fundamental training in banking was his connection with the
Covington Bank & Trust Company at Covington, after which he was assistant
cashier for eight years.

In May, 1915, he was appointed assistant state bank examiner under Mr. R.
M. SIMS, at that time head of the State Banking Department.  Mr. SIMS
succeeded by Mr. L.E. THOMAS of Shreveport with whom Mr. BROCK served as
examiner until the resignation of Mr. THOMAS in November, 1922.  Mr. BROCK
was appointed his successor.  His title of state bank examiner was changed
by the constitutional convention of 1923 to that of state bank
commissioner.  In this position he served by re-appointment from Governor
FUQUA.  He has been continuously with the state banking department since,
May 1915, and since the same date has been a resident of New Orleans.  His
office in the New Court Building has a staff of bank examiners under the
executive direction of Mr. BROCK.

Mr. BROCK married Miss Beulah BAYLISS, of Brookhaven, Mississippi.  They
are the parents of four children:  Mrs. L. J. DEMESTRE, Miss Mildred,
Jasper and Miss Margaret BROCK.