branch death_date children birth_date residence term_end death_place image_size preceded battles term_start spouse image name occupation death_cause resting_place succeeded birth_place unit party awards office religion article_title
united states 14 august 2006 james bradley smith 6 september 1925 farmerville , louisiana may 1972 1992 monroe , ouachita parish louisiana 175px t. t. fields world war ii may 1964 1972 foye -rrb- nolan smith -lrb- married 1945-2006 , his death james_peyton_smith_of_la . jpg james peyton smith 33-year louisiana state employee lengthy illness antioch cemetery in farmerville , louisiana john c. ensminger conway community union parish louisiana , usa 106th infantry division democrat bronze star louisiana of the louisiana state senate state representative from union and morehouse parishes sergeant-at-arms baptist james peyton smith

james peyton smith

james peyton smith , known as james p. smith -lrb- september 6 , 1925 -- august 14 , 2006 -rrb- , was a democratic member of the louisiana house of representatives from union and morehouse parishes in north louisiana , a position which he held from 1964 to 1972 during the administration of governor john mckeithen .
in the first term he represented only union parish.thereafter from 1972 to 1992 , he was the sergeant-at-arms of the louisiana state senate .
smith was one of eight children of the reverend j. duff smith -lrb- 1891-1962 -rrb- and the former sallie jane turner -lrb- 1889-1955 -rrb- .
the reverend smith served in the state house of representatives from union parish from 1944 to 1948 during the first term of governor jimmie davis .
smith was born in the conway community of union parish but resided in his adult life in the parish seat of farmerville .
in august 1946 , smith was ordained as a deacon by the antioch baptist church in farmerville and for six decades was the caretaker of the antioch cemetery , where he and many of his family members are interred .
he was a member of the gideons international , veterans of foreign wars , american legion , lions international , masonic lodge , the order of the eastern star , and woodmen of the world .
he worked for construction of a monument on the alabama landing road near the dean community in honor of an `` unknown soldier '' of the american civil war .
as part of the 106th infantry division , smith earned a bronze star for combat bravery in 1944 in the battle of the bulge in world war ii.smith and his wife , the former foye nolan -lrb- born 1930 -rrb- , to whom he was married for more than sixty years , had three sons , james bradley smith and wife nikki of farmerville , danny allen smith and wife ann of marion in union parish , and max graham smith -lrb- 1951-2011 -rrb- and wife joanne bennett smith of west monroe , and two daughters , roslyn a smith and husband stan and jayne smith-green and husband bobby , both couples from farmerville .
he was survived by a sister , lucille smith dawson -lrb- 1920-2010 -rrb- of iowa , louisiana ; he outlived his six other siblings .
smith won his second and last term in the house in the general election held on february 6 , 1968 , when he and former intraparty rival , t. t. fields of farmerville , defeated the republican edwards barham of oak ridge in morehouse parish , who polled 44 percent of the vote in a three-candidate field in which only two could be elected.in 1975 , barham became the first republican since reconstruction to be elected to the louisiana senate , but he was unseated in 1979 by the democrat david ` bo ' ginn of bastrop in morehouse parish .
in september 2013 , the louisiana highway 33 bridge over lake d'arbonne in farmerville was named in smith 's honor .
the legislative bill to rename the bridge was introduced by republican representative rob shadoin of ruston , whose house district 12 includes part of the territory once represented by smith , whom shadoin calls `` one of the greatest men of union parish '' .
the senate sponsor of the legislation is mike walsworth , a republican from west monroe .
