death_date children nationality birth_date term_end death_place image_size preceded footnotes term_start spouse image name occupation caption succeeded birth_place party office religion article_title
5 april 1974 john t. david , jr. american 30 august 1897 february 23 , 1955 1968 minden , louisiana 175px j. frank colbert at-large in ward 4 : -lrb- less than halfway into his fifth two-year term after the 1 louisiana supreme court sustained his conviction of two misdemeanors for -rrb- bootlegging liquor through his david drugs . mayor david was forced from office july 1 , 1946 1956 irma mizell david mayor_john_t . _ david_of_minden , _ la.jpg john thomas david , sr. businessman mayor hall gallery david as he appears at the minden city jasper goodwill at-large in ward 4 : minden , louisiana democratic party mayor usa member of webster parish police jury of minden , webster parish , louisiana , baptist john t. david

john t. david

john thomas david , sr. -lrb- august 30 , 1897 -- april 5 , 1974 -rrb- , was a businessman who from 1946 to 1955 was the democratic mayor of city of minden , the seat of government of webster parish in northwestern louisiana .
after scandal forced him from the mayor 's office , he remained the chief of the minden volunteer fire department -lrb- 1934 -- 1971 -rrb- , which he had first joined in 1926 , and he served three terms from 1956 to 1968 on the webster parish police jury -lrb- the equivalent to county commission in other states -rrb- .
as mayor , david sought to increase available housing in the post-world war ii era when military personnel returned home , married , and started families .
