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'''Elton Clark Pody''' (December 1, 1938 &ndash; March 27, 2011) was from 1982 to 1990 the [[mayor]] of [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] in Lincoln Parish in north [[Louisiana]] and thereafter the 20-year president of the Central Louisiana [[Chamber of Commerce]] based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [[Louisiana]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=149762670|title=Elton C. Pody|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=March 29, 2011|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref>

'''Elton Clark Pody''' (December 1, 1938 &ndash; March 27, 2011) was from 1982 to 1990 the [[mayor]] of [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] in Lincoln Parish in north [[Louisiana]] and thereafter the 20-year president of the Central Louisiana [[Chamber of Commerce]] based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [[Louisiana]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=149762670|title=Elton C. Pody|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=March 29, 2011|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref>

Pody was the son of Tom Henry Pody (1910-2002) and the former Fannie Mae Bearden (1915-2001) of Farmerville in Union Paris].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58430943|title=Tom Henry Pody|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref> He spent the majority of his life in the Ruston/Farmerville area. He graduated from  [[Louisiana Tech University]] in Ruston.<ref name=obit/> A [[Republican Party|Republican]], he was defeated on October 6, 1990 for a third term as mayor of Ruston by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Hilda Taylor Perritt, a former high school teacher. Pody polled 2,633 votes (42.2 percent) to Perritt's 3,612 (57.8 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10061990/10061990_31.html|title=Results for Election Date: 10/6/1990 (Lincoln Parish)|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref>

Pody was the son of Tom Henry Pody (1910-2002) and the former Fannie Mae Bearden (1915-2001) of Farmerville in Union Paris.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58430943|title=Tom Henry Pody|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref> He spent the majority of his life in the Ruston/Farmerville area. He graduated from  [[Louisiana Tech University]] in Ruston.<ref name=obit/> A [[Republican Party|Republican]], he was defeated on October 6, 1990 for a third term as mayor of Ruston by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Hilda Taylor Perritt, a former high school teacher. Pody polled 2,633 votes (42.2 percent) to Perritt's 3,612 (57.8 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10061990/10061990_31.html|title=Results for Election Date: 10/6/1990 (Lincoln Parish)|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref>

In a civic club address in 1989 in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in Webster Parish, Pody called for municipalities to work together and declared local government the most cost-effective: "I believe local government is very important because it provides so much service on a daily basis."<ref name=mph>Joey White, "Pody touts local government importance", ''Minden Press-Herald'', December 15, 1989, p. 1.</ref> Pody said that the average family then paid $250 annually to local government but $1,700 to the state, and $4,200 to the U.S. government; therefore he considered the local contribution to more effective on a per-capita basis.<ref name=mph/>

In a civic club address in 1989 in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in Webster Parish, Pody called for municipalities to work together and declared local government the most cost-effective: "I believe local government is very important because it provides so much service on a daily basis."<ref name=mph>Joey White, "Pody touts local government importance", ''Minden Press-Herald'', December 15, 1989, p. 1.</ref> Pody said that the average family then paid $250 annually to local government but $1,700 to the state, and $4,200 to the U.S. government; therefore he considered the local contribution to more effective on a per-capita basis.<ref name=mph/>