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{{Infobox officeholder

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = David William Thomas, Sr.

| name=David William Thomas, Sr.

| nationality = [[United States|American]]

| nationality=[[United States|American]]

| office = [[Mayor]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]]<br>

| office=[[Mayor]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]]<br>

Webster Parish, [[Louisiana]]

Webster Parish, [[Louisiana]]

| party = [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]

| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]

| term_start =1936

| term_start=1936

| term_end = 1940

| term_end= 1940

| preceded=[[Henry L. Bridges]]

| preceded=[[Henry L. Bridges]]

| succeeded=[[Floyd D. Culbertson, Jr.]]

| succeeded=[[Floyd D. Culbertson, Jr.]]

}}

}}

'''David William Thomas, Sr.''' (August 12, 1876 &ndash; August 1, 1961), was a [[Wales|Welsh]]-[[United States|American]] "Renaissance man", [[journalist]], publisher, university [[professor]], poet, and [[attorney]] who served from 1936 to 1940<ref>City of Minden, List of Minden Mayors Since 1888</ref> as [[mayor]] of the small city of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], the seat of government of Webster Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<ref name=agan>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindenmemories.org/David%20William%20Thomas.htm|title=Echoes of Our Past: David William Thomas|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald'', through mindenmemories.org|author=John A. Agan, Webster Parish historian|date=May 22, 2008|accessdate=March 10, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=g_t0BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=Tom+Colten#v=onepage&q=Tom%20Colten&f=false|title=Lost Minden|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Columbia, South Carolina]]|author=John A. Agan|pages=119|date=2014|isbn=978-1-4671-1319-9|accessdate=March 9, 2015}}</ref>

'''David William Thomas, Sr.''' (August 12, 1876 &ndash; August 1, 1961), was a [[Wales|Welsh]]-[[United States|American]] "Renaissance man", [[journalist]], publisher, university [[professor]], poet, and [[attorney]] who served from 1936 to 1940<ref>City of Minden, List of Minden Mayors Since 1888</ref> as [[mayor]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], the seat of government of Webster Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<ref name=agan>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindenmemories.org/David%20William%20Thomas.htm|title=Echoes of Our Past: David William Thomas|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald'', through mindenmemories.org|author=John A. Agan, Webster Parish historian|date=May 22, 2008|accessdate=March 10, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=g_t0BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=Tom+Colten#v=onepage&q=Tom%20Colten&f=false|title=Lost Minden|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Columbia, South Carolina]]|author=John A. Agan|pages=119|date=2014|isbn=978-1-4671-1319-9|accessdate=March 9, 2015}}</ref>

==Background==

==Background==