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'''James Crawford Downs''', known as '''Jam Downs''' (born October 7, 1940), is the former district attorney of the [[Louisiana]] 9th Judicial District Court based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. He held the position from 2000 to 2015.
'''James Crawford Downs''', known as '''Jam Downs''' (born October 7, 1940), is the former district attorney of the [[Louisiana]] 9th Judicial District Court based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. He held the position from 2000 to 2015.
==Background==
==Background==
Downs, who has two sisters, is the son of Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985) of Alexandria who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature and was a confidant of [[Governor]]s [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] and [[John J. McKeithen]]. His mother, the former Alice Daigre (pronounced 'Dage'), subsequently Alice Downs and then Alice Thomas (1914-1994), was a sister of the Alexandria consulting engineer Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr.<ref name=jamdowns/> Sammy Downs is buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]].<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk'', May 15, 1985.</ref> Alice Daigre Downs Thomas, who died nine years after the passing of her first husband, from whom she was divorced, is interred at the Henderson James Cemetery in rural Hot Wells in Rapides Parish.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk'', August 22, 1994.</ref>
Downs, who has two sisters, is the son of Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985) of Alexandria who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature and was a confidant of [[Governor]]s [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] and [[John J. McKeithen]]. His mother, the former Alice Daigre (pronounced 'Dage'), subsequently Alice Downs and then Alice Thomas (1914-1994), was a sister of the Alexandria consulting engineer Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr.<ref name=jamdowns/> Sammy Downs is buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]].<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk'', May 15, 1985.</ref> Alice Daigre Downs Thomas, who died nine years after the passing of her first husband, from whom she was divorced, is interred at the Henderson James Cemetery in rural Hot Wells in Rapides Parish.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk'', August 22, 1994.</ref>