| | '''Joseph Barton Elam, Jr.''' (June 1, 1878 – October 24, 1935), was a [[politician]], [[business]]man, and [[journalist]] in his native Mansfield in DeSoto Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-e/|title=ELAM, Joseph Barton, Jr. |publisher=''Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' - Electronic version, a publication of the Louisiana Historical Association|access-date=March 28, 2019}}</ref> | | '''Joseph Barton Elam, Jr.''' (June 1, 1878 – October 24, 1935), was a [[politician]], [[business]]man, and [[journalist]] in his native Mansfield in DeSoto Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-e/|title=ELAM, Joseph Barton, Jr. |publisher=''Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' - Electronic version, a publication of the Louisiana Historical Association|access-date=March 28, 2019}}</ref> |
| | Elam was the son of the former Mary Elizabeth Stewart and Joseph Barton Elam Sr., a lawyer who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives, as Speaker of the House during the [[American Civil War]], and thereafter in the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.<ref>Henry E. Chambers, ''History of Louisiana, II '' (1925).</ref> | | Elam was the son of the former Mary Elizabeth Stewart and Joseph Barton Elam Sr., a lawyer who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives, as Speaker of the House during the [[American Civil War]], and thereafter in the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.<ref>Henry E. Chambers, ''History of Louisiana, II '' (1925).</ref> |
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