branch children birth_date term_end alma_mater death_place preceded footnotes battles term_start spouse resting_place succeeded birth_place party office religion siblings article_title birth_name
united states army barbara peck gilbert haigh 6 march 1922 1972 1976 1960 wisner high school sicily island , louisiana ralph e. king , m.d. david i. patten -lrb- a pioneer catahoula parish family , gilbert grew up in 1 a boardinghouse operated by his mother , who was widowed -rrb- at the age of twenty-eight . though he is a member of world war ii 1960 1956 -lrb- 1946-1985 , her death -rrb- 1 -rrb- barbara june peck gilbert -lrb- married oakley cemetery in gilbert in franklin parish james dan richey harvey `` jim '' brown , jr. . wisner , louisiana , usa democrat -lrb- later republican convert -rrb- louisiana catahoula parishes louisiana state representative for district 21 -lrb- catahoula state and concordia parishes -rrb- member of the catahoula parish police senator jury for franklin , richland , and united methodist church frances virginia gilbert martin -lrb- died 2013 -rrb- j. c. gilbert
 jess carr gilbert
j. c. gilbert

jess carr gilbert , known as j. c. `` sonny '' gilbert -lrb- march 6 , 1922 -- november 21 , 2014 -rrb- , was a cotton farmer and a former democratic member of both houses of the louisiana state legislature from the town of sicily island in catahoula parish in northeastern louisiana .
gilbert served three consecutive terms in the louisiana state senate from 1960 to 1972 , having represented franklin , richland , and catahoula parishes .
in 1972 , gilbert was elected for a single four-year term to the louisiana house of representatives from newly established district 21 -lrb- catahoula and neighboring concordia parishes -rrb- .
he was allied with the anti-long legislative faction .
during the 1980s , as a retired lawmaker and a political conservative , gilbert switched his party registration to republican .
