succeeded death_date children party office preceded birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name occupation
thomas `` bud '' brady 28 december 1997 barbara brown democrat louisiana la salle , winn , and rapides parishes -rrb- state representative from district 22 -lrb- grant , at-large membership : 30 december 1916 1972 lucille thompson richard s. thompson
 1984 richard s. thompson farmer
richard s. thompson

richard s. thompson -lrb- december 30 , 1916 -- december 28 , 1997 -rrb- was from 1972 to 1984 a democratic member of the louisiana house of representatives from district 22 , which now includes grant , la salle , winn , and rapides parishes .
thompson was the first person to hold the district 22 seat , which was created following redistricting based on the 1970 census .
the previous configuration had included grant parish in a multi-member district with four representatives .
thompson served during the first two administrations of governor edwin washington edwards and edwards 's first successor , republican david c. treen .
along with his service in the legislature , thompson was a delegate in 1973 to the louisiana constitutional convention held in the capitol in baton rouge .
in the 1975 nonpartisan blanket primary , the first held in louisiana history with the abolition of the closed primary system , thompson defeated a challenge from former state senator w. l. rambo of georgetown , also in grant parish .
before he was a state senator , rambo had held the grant parish house seat from 1952 to 1960 .
thompson was unseated in the 1983 primary by thomas `` bud '' brady of la salle parish .
also in the primary race was former state representative and state senator w. l. rambo .
brady led the primary field with 6,424 votes -lrb- 36 percent -rrb- ; rambo followed with 5,185 ballots -lrb- 29.1 percent -rrb- .
thompson garnered 4,960 votes -lrb- 27.8 percent -rrb- .
the remaining 1,276 votes went to darrel thaxton , another democrat .
brady then prevailed by 207 votes in the runoff election against rambo , 7,301 -lrb- 50.7 percent -rrb- to 7,094 -lrb- 49.3 percent -rrb- .
without his strong showing in his own lasalle parish , brady would have been defeated .
a cotton , soybean , cattle , hay , and pecan farmer , thompson resided in colfax , the seat of grant parish .
he died two days before his 81st birthday .
thompson and his surviving wife , lucille -lrb- born 1918 -rrb- , have two daughters , barbara t. brown and her husband daniel wallace `` dan '' brown -lrb- born 1941 -rrb- of colfax , and ellen t. anderson and her husband , paul j. anderson , sr. , of baton rouge .
thompson and his wife had nine grandchildren , including markay brown of baton rouge ; kayla glascock of bossier city ; and gay lynn brown of baton rouge ; deborah a. moody , of wichita falls , texas ; chad anderson of baton rouge ; alicia anderson , of denham springs ; and richard anderson of new york .
thompson was predeceased by two other grandchildren , `` andy '' paul anderson , jr. , and emmie gayle anderson wisniewski in 2008 , along with her unborn son , weston joseph wisniewski , thompson 's great-grandson .
thompson 's great-grandchildren include callan glascock , kenna glascock , and carson glascock of bossier city , louisiana ; daniel brown and maria brown of baton rouge ; christopher , keaton , and katelynn moody of wichita falls , and austin anderson of baton rouge , louisiana .
he is remembered through the richard s. thompson memorial scholarship given to a christian student from grant parish studying at louisiana state university at alexandria .
thompson was also memorialized in death by the naming of the richard s. thompson bridge that connects rapides parish and grant parish .
the bridge was appropriated during thompson 's tenure in the legislature .
the district 22 seat is now held by the independent terry r. brown , a nephew of daniel brown .
oddly , daniel brown is only five years older than his nephew , terry brown .
