Hon. Coleman Lindsey, Webster Par., Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: Aug. 2001



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===Hon. Coleman Lindsey is a member of the State 
Senate fromWebster Parish.  He has made a mark in his profession as anattorney, and he has had 
an unusual public experience and service inhis native state.  Mr. Lindsey did not begin the 
study of law until hewas married and had two children, and has made his success in aremarkably 
brief time.He was born in that part of Calcasieu Parish that is now BeauregardParish, in 1892, 
son of Rufus B. and Ella (Hamilton) Lindsey.  Hisfather was born in what is now Webster but was
 originally a part ofClaiborne Parish.Coleman Lindsey spent his early years on a farm, as a boy 
also livedfor a time at De Ridder, and he attended what was known as the TenMile School and the 
Oakdale High School, in Allen Parish.  Heserved as assistant state treasurer under Mr. Howell 
Morgan, and in1921 represented Allen Parish as a member of the ConstitutionalConvention.In the 
meantime he was studying law in the Louisiana StateUniversity, graduating with his law degree 
in 1921.  After finishinghis course he came to Minden and has since been associated inpractice 
with Mr. R. H. Lee, a prominent lawyer and districtattorney.  The firm is Lee & Lindsey, and 
has an extensive generalpractice of the law in the northern part of the state.After a residence 
of only two years in Webster Par., LouisianaColeman Lindsey was honored by election as state senator 
from theTwenty-sixth Senatorial district, composed of Webster and Bossierparishes.  In the 
session of the Senate of 1924 he was chairman of thecommittee on health, quarantine, drainage 
and charitable institutions;was vice chairman 't the committee on state banks and banking; and 
amember of the committees on corporations, parochial and municipalaffairs; elections, 
qualifications and registrations; the judiciary,section B railroads, insurance and industries.  
He was also honoredby being appointed one of the committee of five from the StateSenate who 
acted in conjunction with the committee of the City ofBaton Rouge for the inaugural ceremonies 
for Governor Henry L.Fuqua.Mr. Lindsey is a Knights Templar Mason and Shriner.  He married Miss 
Cora Herring, and they have three children, Rufus, Douglas andLewis.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 169, by Henry E. Chambers. 
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.