death_date children birth_date residence term_end alma_mater death_place image_size preceded footnotes term_start spouse image name occupation death_cause resting_place succeeded relations birth_place party office religion article_title
17 october 2014 ben edwards barham , ii -lrb- deceased -rrb- 10 july 1937 oak ridge 1980 oak ridge high school while , louisiana airborne en route to medical attention in shreveport 180px charles m. brown both , erle `` ninety '' barham , perished in small former aircraft crashes - thirty-eight years apart . state senator edwards barham and his father 1976 bennie faye berry barham edwards_barham_of_la . jpg erle edwards barham farmer and businessman small plane crash episcopal , louisiana church of the redeemer cemetery in oak ridge david ` bo ' ginn robert j. barham -lrb- brother -rrb- place of birth missing republican louisiana , morehouse , richland , and west carroll parishes -rrb- state senator from district 33 -lrb- east carroll episcopalian edwards barham

edwards barham

erle edwards barham -lrb- july 10 , 1937 -- october 17 , 2014 -rrb- was an american businessman , farmer , and conservationist in oak ridge , a village in morehouse parish in north louisiana .
he was the first republican elected -- by a 29-vote margin -- to the louisiana state senate since the era of reconstruction .
barham represented the agricultural district 33 from 1976 to 1980 .
barham was narrowly unseated in the 1979 nonpartisan blanket primary by a democrat , david ` bo ' ginn of bastrop , who held the seat until 1988 .
