resting_place succeeded relations death_date religion birth_place party office preceded parents birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
jewish cemetery in natchitoches , louisiana two-member delegation : j. isaac friedman -lrb- brother -rrb- 1 september 1948 jewish louisiana natchez natchitoches parish louisiana , usa democrat louisiana state representative from natchitoches parish two-member delegation : samuel and caroline friedman 23 october 1886 1932 leon friedman
 1940 leon friedman
leon friedman

leon friedman -lrb- october 23 , 1886 -- september 1 , 1948 -rrb- was a democrat who served from 1932 to 1940 as a member of the louisiana house of representatives from his native natchitoches parish , louisiana .
friedman was a member of a prominent landowning jewish family from natchez in southern natchitoches parish .
his father , samuel friedman -lrb- 1848-1888 -rrb- , died when leon was barely a year old .
this left his mother , caroline s. friedman -lrb- 1847-1906 -rrb- , as head of the household .
a brother , harry , died in 1895 at the age of fourteen .
an older brother , j. isaac friedman , served in the state house from 1908 to 1916 and in the louisiana state senate for an abbreviated term from 1922 to 1924 , following the resignation of charles milton cunningham , the editor and publisher of `` the natchitoches times '' .
the friedmans are interred at the jewish cemetery in natchitoches .
leon and j. isaac friedman were not the first jewish representatives from natchitoches parish .
earlier , leopold caspari , who in 1884 pushed successfully for the creation of northwestern state university , also served in both houses of the legislature , nonconsecutively between 1884 and his death in 1915 .
