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{{Infobox person
|name=Ansel Martin "Buddy" Stroud, Jr.
|birth_date=April 5, 1927
|birth_place=Reared in Dixie, Caddo Parish<br> [[Louisiana]], USA
|death_date=July 1, 2016
|death_place=Place of death missing
|resting_place=Forest Park East Cemetery in [[Shreveport]], Louisiana
|occupation=Major General in the [[United States Army]]<br>
[[Adjutant General]] of the Louisiana National Guard
|residence=Shreveport, Louisiana
|religion=[[United Methodist]]
|alma_mater=Belcher High School<br>
[[Baylor University]]<br>
[[Texas A&M University]]<br>
[[State University of New York]]
|spouse=(1) Virginia Elizabeth Doyle<br>
(2) Jean Talbot Hopkins<br>
(3) Norma Ann Hendrick (married 1993-2012, his death)
|children=
|footnotes=
}}
'''Ansel Martin Stroud, Jr.''', often called '''Buddy Stroud''' (April 5, 1927 – July 1, 2016), was a [[United States Army]] [[major general]] from [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], whose career extended from 1944 to 1997. He was particularly known as the [[adjutant general]] of the Louisiana National Guard during the administrations of [[governor of Louisiana|Governors]] [[Dave Treen|David C. Treen]], [[Edwin Edwards]], [[Buddy Roemer]], and [[Mike Foster]].
==Background==
Stroud was the younger of two children and the only son of A. M. Stroud, Sr. (1890-1968), who died in Cullen in Webster Parish, and the former Grace Killingsworth (1904-1988).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Stroud&GSfn=Ansel&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=95746937&df=all&|title=Ansel Martin Stroud|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=July 11, 2016}]/ref>
He was reared in Dixie, an [[unincorporated community]] in Caddo Parish and graduated from nearby Belcher High School in Belcher. In April 1944, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the Army. Two years later he was commissioned a second lieutenant after the completion of officer candidacy school. He attended [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], [[Texas]], and [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station]].<ref name=obit/>
By his first wife, the former Barbara White, now deceased, he had four sons, Ansel Stroud, III, and wife Joan, Daniel Garber Stroud and wife Helen, William Lee Stroud and wife Lee Ann, and Michael Allyn Stroud and wife Lea. From his second marriage to the former Jane Smith Pearce (born June 1925), he acquired five step-children, Betty Pearce, Mary-Clyde Greene and husband, Wiley; Margaret Pearce Price, the widow of Richard Price; Louise Pearce; and Preston Pearce and wife, Karen, and seven grandchildren.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=a-m-stroud&pid=180534402&fhid=6593#sthash.kalJIGS7.dpuf|title=Ansel M. Stroud, Jr.|publisher=''[[The Times (Shreveport)|The Shreveport Times]]''|accessdate=July 11, 2016}}</ref>
==Career==
Stroud received a Bachelor of Science degree from the [[University of the State of New York]] and studied as well at the Command and General Staff College in [[Fort Leavenworth]], [[Kansas]], and the Army War College in Carlisle, [[Pennsylvania]]. He joined the Louisiana National Guard in June 1947. In 1962, he was named president of the National Guard Association of Louisiana. In 1989, he was appointed director of the Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness. He was president too of the National Guard Association of the United States and president of the Adjutants General Association of the United States. Under Stroud, some 6,400 Louisiana National Guard personnel in 1991 were mobilized during [[Operation Desert Storm]], in which [[Iraq]]I forces were quickly expelled from [[Kuwait]]. Units under Stroud trained and participated in joint military exercises with other countries world-wide. Stroud worked to develop the Youth Challenge Program, which operating in thirty-seven states has sought to rehabilitate troubled young people and to give them the skills to render productive lives.<ref name=obit/>
In 1972, Governor Edwin Edwards in the first of his four terms in office, named Stroud the assistant adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard. Edwards' first successor and two-time opponent, [[David C. Treen]], elevated Stroud to adjustant general in 1980.
Stroud was also a farmer and [[business]]man and the first director of the Red River Economic Development Corporation in Shreveport, through which he worked to obtain federal grants for agencies in northwestern Louisiana. He was affiliated with the [[Masonic lodge]], the [[Shriners]], and the Ellerbe Road [[United Methodist]] Church in Shreveport.
Stroud died from complications of a medical procedure.<ref name=obit/> He is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery at 3700 St. Vincent Avenue in Shreveport. Stroud described himself "a God-fearing man that did his best, and have asked for God's mercy and forgiveness."<ref name=mph>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/ex-louisiana-national-guard-adjutant-gen-ansel-stroud-dies/|title=Ex-Louisiana National Guard Adjutant Gen. Ansel Stroud dies|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|accessdate=July 11, 2016}}</ref> Stroud won many military medals; his obituary focuses on his patriotism, which "knew no limits, and he was fully committed to the defense of the [[Constitution of the United States]] and to the defense of our nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic."<ref name=obit/> General Frank Grass, the 27th chief of the National Guard Bureau, attributed much of the success of the Louisiana Guard to Stroud's leadership: "He was a tremendous visionary. He just set us on the path for so many things."<ref name=mph/>
The Ansel M. Stroud, Jr. Military History and Weapons Museum at the Jackson Barracks headquarters of the Louisiana Nationa; Guard in the Lower 9th Ward of [[New Orleans]] is named in honor of Stroud, who worked to establish the facility. He was also an inductee of the Louisiana National Guard Hall of Fame and was among the first named to the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stroud, Ansel}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:Methodists]]
[[Category:
|name=Ansel Martin "Buddy" Stroud, Jr.
|birth_date=April 5, 1927
|birth_place=Reared in Dixie, Caddo Parish<br> [[Louisiana]], USA
|death_date=July 1, 2016
|death_place=Place of death missing
|resting_place=Forest Park East Cemetery in [[Shreveport]], Louisiana
|occupation=Major General in the [[United States Army]]<br>
[[Adjutant General]] of the Louisiana National Guard
|residence=Shreveport, Louisiana
|religion=[[United Methodist]]
|alma_mater=Belcher High School<br>
[[Baylor University]]<br>
[[Texas A&M University]]<br>
[[State University of New York]]
|spouse=(1) Virginia Elizabeth Doyle<br>
(2) Jean Talbot Hopkins<br>
(3) Norma Ann Hendrick (married 1993-2012, his death)
|children=
|footnotes=
}}
'''Ansel Martin Stroud, Jr.''', often called '''Buddy Stroud''' (April 5, 1927 – July 1, 2016), was a [[United States Army]] [[major general]] from [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], whose career extended from 1944 to 1997. He was particularly known as the [[adjutant general]] of the Louisiana National Guard during the administrations of [[governor of Louisiana|Governors]] [[Dave Treen|David C. Treen]], [[Edwin Edwards]], [[Buddy Roemer]], and [[Mike Foster]].
==Background==
Stroud was the younger of two children and the only son of A. M. Stroud, Sr. (1890-1968), who died in Cullen in Webster Parish, and the former Grace Killingsworth (1904-1988).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Stroud&GSfn=Ansel&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=95746937&df=all&|title=Ansel Martin Stroud|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=July 11, 2016}]/ref>
He was reared in Dixie, an [[unincorporated community]] in Caddo Parish and graduated from nearby Belcher High School in Belcher. In April 1944, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the Army. Two years later he was commissioned a second lieutenant after the completion of officer candidacy school. He attended [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], [[Texas]], and [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station]].<ref name=obit/>
By his first wife, the former Barbara White, now deceased, he had four sons, Ansel Stroud, III, and wife Joan, Daniel Garber Stroud and wife Helen, William Lee Stroud and wife Lee Ann, and Michael Allyn Stroud and wife Lea. From his second marriage to the former Jane Smith Pearce (born June 1925), he acquired five step-children, Betty Pearce, Mary-Clyde Greene and husband, Wiley; Margaret Pearce Price, the widow of Richard Price; Louise Pearce; and Preston Pearce and wife, Karen, and seven grandchildren.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=a-m-stroud&pid=180534402&fhid=6593#sthash.kalJIGS7.dpuf|title=Ansel M. Stroud, Jr.|publisher=''[[The Times (Shreveport)|The Shreveport Times]]''|accessdate=July 11, 2016}}</ref>
==Career==
Stroud received a Bachelor of Science degree from the [[University of the State of New York]] and studied as well at the Command and General Staff College in [[Fort Leavenworth]], [[Kansas]], and the Army War College in Carlisle, [[Pennsylvania]]. He joined the Louisiana National Guard in June 1947. In 1962, he was named president of the National Guard Association of Louisiana. In 1989, he was appointed director of the Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness. He was president too of the National Guard Association of the United States and president of the Adjutants General Association of the United States. Under Stroud, some 6,400 Louisiana National Guard personnel in 1991 were mobilized during [[Operation Desert Storm]], in which [[Iraq]]I forces were quickly expelled from [[Kuwait]]. Units under Stroud trained and participated in joint military exercises with other countries world-wide. Stroud worked to develop the Youth Challenge Program, which operating in thirty-seven states has sought to rehabilitate troubled young people and to give them the skills to render productive lives.<ref name=obit/>
In 1972, Governor Edwin Edwards in the first of his four terms in office, named Stroud the assistant adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard. Edwards' first successor and two-time opponent, [[David C. Treen]], elevated Stroud to adjustant general in 1980.
Stroud was also a farmer and [[business]]man and the first director of the Red River Economic Development Corporation in Shreveport, through which he worked to obtain federal grants for agencies in northwestern Louisiana. He was affiliated with the [[Masonic lodge]], the [[Shriners]], and the Ellerbe Road [[United Methodist]] Church in Shreveport.
Stroud died from complications of a medical procedure.<ref name=obit/> He is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery at 3700 St. Vincent Avenue in Shreveport. Stroud described himself "a God-fearing man that did his best, and have asked for God's mercy and forgiveness."<ref name=mph>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/ex-louisiana-national-guard-adjutant-gen-ansel-stroud-dies/|title=Ex-Louisiana National Guard Adjutant Gen. Ansel Stroud dies|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|accessdate=July 11, 2016}}</ref> Stroud won many military medals; his obituary focuses on his patriotism, which "knew no limits, and he was fully committed to the defense of the [[Constitution of the United States]] and to the defense of our nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic."<ref name=obit/> General Frank Grass, the 27th chief of the National Guard Bureau, attributed much of the success of the Louisiana Guard to Stroud's leadership: "He was a tremendous visionary. He just set us on the path for so many things."<ref name=mph/>
The Ansel M. Stroud, Jr. Military History and Weapons Museum at the Jackson Barracks headquarters of the Louisiana Nationa; Guard in the Lower 9th Ward of [[New Orleans]] is named in honor of Stroud, who worked to establish the facility. He was also an inductee of the Louisiana National Guard Hall of Fame and was among the first named to the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stroud, Ansel}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:Methodists]]
[[Category: