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{{Infobox person
| name =Jimmy Gayle Shoalmire
| occupation=[[Historian]]<br>[[Professor]] at [[Mississippi State University]]
| yearsactive=1966-1982
| birth_date=July 23, 1940
| birth_place=[[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=July 31, 1982 (aged 42)
| death_place =Alexandria, [[Virginia]]
|spouse=(1) Carol Ann Shaughnessy Shoalmire (married 1962-1979, divorced)
(2) Betty Kathryn Buckner Shoalmire (married 1980-his death)<br>
'''Children''': <br>
From first marriage:<br>
lAan Dean Shoalmire<br>
Brent Thomas Shoalmire<br>
Rachel Lea Shoalmire Scriber<br>
'''Parents''': <br>
Rube Robert and Melba Elliott Shoalmire
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Fair Park High School (Shreveport)<br>
[[Louisiana Tech University]]<br>
[[Mississippi State University]]
|religion=[[Baptist]]
|footnotes=
}}
'''Jimmy Gayle Shoalmire''' (July 23, 1940 – July 31, 1982)<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/newssdi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref> was an [[historian]] of the American South originally from [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], who specialized in [[Reconstruction]] and agricultural studies.
==Early years and education==
Shoalmire was born to Rube Robert Shoalmire (1913–1984), a welder, and the former Melba Agnes Elliott (1915–1995). He graduated in 1958 from the since downgraded Fair Park High School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fairparkalumni.com/id1_honorary_and_memorial_gifts.htm|title=Fair Park High School Alumni Association|publisher=fairparkalumni.com|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref>
Shoalmire then enrolled at [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], at which he engaged in the study of history, having received both Bachelor of Arts and [[Master of Arts]] degrees. In 1966, he completed his thesis, "Reconstruction in Red River Parish" based in part on research at the [Red River Parish Court House in Coushatta in northwestern Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.louisianafolklife.org/ThesesDissertations/listall.asp|title=Theses and Dissertations Database|publisher=louisinafolklife.org|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref> He was a visiting instructor at Louisiana Tech for the academic year 1966-1967.<ref>''The Historian'' Vol. 28 (Issue 4), 1967.</ref>
==At Mississippi State University==
To pursue his [[Ph.D.]], Shoalmire entered [[Mississippi State University]] in Starkville]], [[Mississippi]]. In 1969, he completed the dissertation entitled "Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905", a study of Marshall Harvey Twitchell, the Louisiana [[Republican Party|Republican]] state senator for Bienville and Red River parishes. As a legislator, Twitchell pushed for the establishment of Red River Parish and brought many of his northern relatives to live there, mostly as planters.<ref name=history>{{cite web|url=http://vermontcivilwar.org/units/4/bios.php?input=31224|author=Jacob G. Ullery, compiler,|title= ''Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont, Part III''|page=160|publisher=Brattleboro, [[Vermont]]: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p. 160|accessdate=July 5, 2010}}</ref> In 1876, his Redeemer ([[conservative]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]) detractors fired six shots at him, and he lost the use of both arms below the elbows. He played dead and avoided even more bullets. Twitchell then left Louisiana and spent his later years as a diplomat in Kingston, [[Ontario]], [[Canada]].<ref name=history/>
Shoalmire's dissertation stemmed from his earlier study of Reconstruction in Red River Parish.<ref>Jimmy G. Shoalmire, ''Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905," unpublished [[dissertation]], [[Mississippi State University]] at Starkville, [[Mississippi]], 1969</ref> In writing his original study on Red River Parish, Shoalmire located the Marshall Twitchell papers in the attic of a Twitchell grandson in Burlington, [[Vermont]], and brought the materials to Prescott Memorial Library at Louisiana Tech.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vATekRjyYicC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=Jimmy+G.+Shoalmire&source=bl&ots=mgRT_GEw-U&sig=w7GVZoDtM6aCethjel7dLxnFpkw&hl=en&ei=n9VBTKfUKYO78gafv-QL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CC0Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=Jimmy%20G.%20Shoalmire&f=false|title=Ted Tunnell, "Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862-1877'', p. 182|publisher=Google Books|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref> The Twitchell papers were used by Ted Tunnell, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in [[Richmond]], in his 2001 publication, ''Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/0807130230|title=''Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction''|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press, 2001|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref>
In 1973, Shoalmire co-authored with his MSU colleague, Roy Vernon Scott, ''The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership.''Originally a poor farmboy from [[Tennessee]], Cobb became a southern agricultural publisher and philanthropist. From 1933 to 1937, Cobb was a director of the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]], a [[New Deal]] agency which supervised the plowing under of [[cotton]] fields to reduce farm output in hopes of reversing the lagging prices paid to farmers. In the preparation of their book, Shoalmire and Scott used papers from the [[Henry A. Wallace]] Collection at the [[University of Iowa]] at Iowa City.<ref>Jimmy G. Shoalmire and Roy Vernon Scott, ''The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership,'' ([[Jackson]], Mississippi: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973).</ref>
Shoalmire became associate professor of history at MSU and head of Special Collections at the Mitchell Memorial Library there.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&docId=14478610|title=John F. Marszalek, ''Sherman's Other War: The General and the Civil War Press''|publisher=[[Kent, Ohio|Kent]], [[Ohio]]: [[Kent State University Press]], 1999, p. xiv|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref> As the head of Special Collections, he was also the [[curator]] of the archives of [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Stennis]]. In that capacity, he conducted oral history interviews with personal friends, staff, senatorial colleagues, and other observers of Stennis' long career in politics. Among the interviewees was Stennis' son, [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]] [[attorney at law (United States)|attorney]] John Hampton Stennis, who lost in a 1978 bid for the [[United States House of Representatives]].<ref>John C. Stennis Oral History Collection, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi</ref>
Shoalmire left MSU in 1979 to work on Stennis' staff in [[Washington, D.C.]] Within a year, he became a [[lobbyist]], serving as director of legislative affairs for Gould, Inc., an electronics and defense weapons firm in Washington.<ref name=jgsobit>"Shreveport native dies in Virginia," ''The Shreveport Times,'' August 2, 1982.</ref><ref name=statement>Statement of Carol Ann Shoalmire, Ruston, Louisiana, July 5, 2010</ref>
==Early death and family==
Shoalmire's lobbying career was cut short, for he died suddenly at his residence in Alexandria in Fairfax County, Virginia, of a heart attack eight days after his 42nd birthday.<ref name=ssdi/>
In 1962, Shoalmire wed the former Carol Ann Shaughnessy (born 1942), a Ruston resident who also graduated from Fair Park High School. The marriage ended in divorce in 1979. Carol Shoalmire is the daughter of John Earl Shaughnessy, Sr. (born 1918), and the former Martha Leah Smith (born 1922), who is originally from Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratcliff.rootsweb.ancestry.com/jn000001.htm|title=Descendants of John Ratcliff|publisher=ratcliff.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=July 19, 2010}}</ref> Three children came from the marriage, Alan Dean Shoalmire (born 1967) of Navasota, [[Texas]], Brent Thomas Shoalmire (born 1971) of Shreveport, and Rachel Lee Shoalmire Scriber (born 1972) of Ruston. Brent Shoalmire is a minister, professor, and associate dean at [[Louisiana Baptist University]], and senior pastor of Northwood Baptist
Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lbu.edu/Bible_News.htm|title=July News, Louisiana Baptist University and Theological Seminary|publisher=lbu.edu|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref>
On October 26, 1980, Shoalmire married the former Betty Kathryn Buckner of Starkville, Mississippi, and Alexandria, Virginia, who was then a member of the staff of U.S. Senator [[Thad Cochran]] of Mississippi.<ref name=jgsobit/> The wedding ceremony was performed in Christ's [[Episcopal]] Church in Alexandria. Shoalmire's sister, Robbye Agnes McGuinn (1937–1982), succumbed fewer than three months after her brother's death. Their paternal grandmother, Ethel Wright Shoalmire (1889–1982), died during the short period between the deaths of Jimmy and Robbye. In addition to his spouse Kathryn Shoalmire, his children and their mother Carol, Shoalmire had a surviving brother, Jack Benny Shoalmire (1942-2011)<ref name=jbsobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=jack-b-shoalmire&pid=153503174|title=Jack B. Shoalmire|publisher=''Shreveport Times'', September 8, 2011|accessdate=September 8, 2011}}</ref> of Broken Arrow, near [[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]].<ref ><ref>Net Detective People Search</ref> Jack Shoalmire was a 1960 Fair Park High School graduate and a [[Vietnam War]] veteran, recipient of a [[Purple Heart]] and three [[Bronze Star]]s,<ref name=jbsobit/> who retired after thirty-six years with [[Ford]] Motor Company at the title of superintendent
A memorial service for Jimmy Shoalmire was held in the [[Mike Mansfield]] Room in the [[United States Capitol]], with the Senate chaplain officiating. Another memorial service followed in Shreveport. Shoalmire, who was a [[Baptist]], is interred at Forest Park Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=statement/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shoalmire, Jimmy G.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Mississippi]]
[[Category:Virginia]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Lobbyists]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
| name =Jimmy Gayle Shoalmire
| occupation=[[Historian]]<br>[[Professor]] at [[Mississippi State University]]
| yearsactive=1966-1982
| birth_date=July 23, 1940
| birth_place=[[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=July 31, 1982 (aged 42)
| death_place =Alexandria, [[Virginia]]
|spouse=(1) Carol Ann Shaughnessy Shoalmire (married 1962-1979, divorced)
(2) Betty Kathryn Buckner Shoalmire (married 1980-his death)<br>
'''Children''': <br>
From first marriage:<br>
lAan Dean Shoalmire<br>
Brent Thomas Shoalmire<br>
Rachel Lea Shoalmire Scriber<br>
'''Parents''': <br>
Rube Robert and Melba Elliott Shoalmire
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Fair Park High School (Shreveport)<br>
[[Louisiana Tech University]]<br>
[[Mississippi State University]]
|religion=[[Baptist]]
|footnotes=
}}
'''Jimmy Gayle Shoalmire''' (July 23, 1940 – July 31, 1982)<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/newssdi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref> was an [[historian]] of the American South originally from [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], who specialized in [[Reconstruction]] and agricultural studies.
==Early years and education==
Shoalmire was born to Rube Robert Shoalmire (1913–1984), a welder, and the former Melba Agnes Elliott (1915–1995). He graduated in 1958 from the since downgraded Fair Park High School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fairparkalumni.com/id1_honorary_and_memorial_gifts.htm|title=Fair Park High School Alumni Association|publisher=fairparkalumni.com|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref>
Shoalmire then enrolled at [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], at which he engaged in the study of history, having received both Bachelor of Arts and [[Master of Arts]] degrees. In 1966, he completed his thesis, "Reconstruction in Red River Parish" based in part on research at the [Red River Parish Court House in Coushatta in northwestern Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.louisianafolklife.org/ThesesDissertations/listall.asp|title=Theses and Dissertations Database|publisher=louisinafolklife.org|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref> He was a visiting instructor at Louisiana Tech for the academic year 1966-1967.<ref>''The Historian'' Vol. 28 (Issue 4), 1967.</ref>
==At Mississippi State University==
To pursue his [[Ph.D.]], Shoalmire entered [[Mississippi State University]] in Starkville]], [[Mississippi]]. In 1969, he completed the dissertation entitled "Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905", a study of Marshall Harvey Twitchell, the Louisiana [[Republican Party|Republican]] state senator for Bienville and Red River parishes. As a legislator, Twitchell pushed for the establishment of Red River Parish and brought many of his northern relatives to live there, mostly as planters.<ref name=history>{{cite web|url=http://vermontcivilwar.org/units/4/bios.php?input=31224|author=Jacob G. Ullery, compiler,|title= ''Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont, Part III''|page=160|publisher=Brattleboro, [[Vermont]]: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p. 160|accessdate=July 5, 2010}}</ref> In 1876, his Redeemer ([[conservative]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]) detractors fired six shots at him, and he lost the use of both arms below the elbows. He played dead and avoided even more bullets. Twitchell then left Louisiana and spent his later years as a diplomat in Kingston, [[Ontario]], [[Canada]].<ref name=history/>
Shoalmire's dissertation stemmed from his earlier study of Reconstruction in Red River Parish.<ref>Jimmy G. Shoalmire, ''Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905," unpublished [[dissertation]], [[Mississippi State University]] at Starkville, [[Mississippi]], 1969</ref> In writing his original study on Red River Parish, Shoalmire located the Marshall Twitchell papers in the attic of a Twitchell grandson in Burlington, [[Vermont]], and brought the materials to Prescott Memorial Library at Louisiana Tech.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vATekRjyYicC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=Jimmy+G.+Shoalmire&source=bl&ots=mgRT_GEw-U&sig=w7GVZoDtM6aCethjel7dLxnFpkw&hl=en&ei=n9VBTKfUKYO78gafv-QL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CC0Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=Jimmy%20G.%20Shoalmire&f=false|title=Ted Tunnell, "Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862-1877'', p. 182|publisher=Google Books|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref> The Twitchell papers were used by Ted Tunnell, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in [[Richmond]], in his 2001 publication, ''Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/0807130230|title=''Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction''|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press, 2001|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref>
In 1973, Shoalmire co-authored with his MSU colleague, Roy Vernon Scott, ''The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership.''Originally a poor farmboy from [[Tennessee]], Cobb became a southern agricultural publisher and philanthropist. From 1933 to 1937, Cobb was a director of the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]], a [[New Deal]] agency which supervised the plowing under of [[cotton]] fields to reduce farm output in hopes of reversing the lagging prices paid to farmers. In the preparation of their book, Shoalmire and Scott used papers from the [[Henry A. Wallace]] Collection at the [[University of Iowa]] at Iowa City.<ref>Jimmy G. Shoalmire and Roy Vernon Scott, ''The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership,'' ([[Jackson]], Mississippi: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973).</ref>
Shoalmire became associate professor of history at MSU and head of Special Collections at the Mitchell Memorial Library there.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&docId=14478610|title=John F. Marszalek, ''Sherman's Other War: The General and the Civil War Press''|publisher=[[Kent, Ohio|Kent]], [[Ohio]]: [[Kent State University Press]], 1999, p. xiv|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref> As the head of Special Collections, he was also the [[curator]] of the archives of [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Stennis]]. In that capacity, he conducted oral history interviews with personal friends, staff, senatorial colleagues, and other observers of Stennis' long career in politics. Among the interviewees was Stennis' son, [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]] [[attorney at law (United States)|attorney]] John Hampton Stennis, who lost in a 1978 bid for the [[United States House of Representatives]].<ref>John C. Stennis Oral History Collection, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi</ref>
Shoalmire left MSU in 1979 to work on Stennis' staff in [[Washington, D.C.]] Within a year, he became a [[lobbyist]], serving as director of legislative affairs for Gould, Inc., an electronics and defense weapons firm in Washington.<ref name=jgsobit>"Shreveport native dies in Virginia," ''The Shreveport Times,'' August 2, 1982.</ref><ref name=statement>Statement of Carol Ann Shoalmire, Ruston, Louisiana, July 5, 2010</ref>
==Early death and family==
Shoalmire's lobbying career was cut short, for he died suddenly at his residence in Alexandria in Fairfax County, Virginia, of a heart attack eight days after his 42nd birthday.<ref name=ssdi/>
In 1962, Shoalmire wed the former Carol Ann Shaughnessy (born 1942), a Ruston resident who also graduated from Fair Park High School. The marriage ended in divorce in 1979. Carol Shoalmire is the daughter of John Earl Shaughnessy, Sr. (born 1918), and the former Martha Leah Smith (born 1922), who is originally from Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratcliff.rootsweb.ancestry.com/jn000001.htm|title=Descendants of John Ratcliff|publisher=ratcliff.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=July 19, 2010}}</ref> Three children came from the marriage, Alan Dean Shoalmire (born 1967) of Navasota, [[Texas]], Brent Thomas Shoalmire (born 1971) of Shreveport, and Rachel Lee Shoalmire Scriber (born 1972) of Ruston. Brent Shoalmire is a minister, professor, and associate dean at [[Louisiana Baptist University]], and senior pastor of Northwood Baptist
Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lbu.edu/Bible_News.htm|title=July News, Louisiana Baptist University and Theological Seminary|publisher=lbu.edu|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref>
On October 26, 1980, Shoalmire married the former Betty Kathryn Buckner of Starkville, Mississippi, and Alexandria, Virginia, who was then a member of the staff of U.S. Senator [[Thad Cochran]] of Mississippi.<ref name=jgsobit/> The wedding ceremony was performed in Christ's [[Episcopal]] Church in Alexandria. Shoalmire's sister, Robbye Agnes McGuinn (1937–1982), succumbed fewer than three months after her brother's death. Their paternal grandmother, Ethel Wright Shoalmire (1889–1982), died during the short period between the deaths of Jimmy and Robbye. In addition to his spouse Kathryn Shoalmire, his children and their mother Carol, Shoalmire had a surviving brother, Jack Benny Shoalmire (1942-2011)<ref name=jbsobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=jack-b-shoalmire&pid=153503174|title=Jack B. Shoalmire|publisher=''Shreveport Times'', September 8, 2011|accessdate=September 8, 2011}}</ref> of Broken Arrow, near [[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]].<ref ><ref>Net Detective People Search</ref> Jack Shoalmire was a 1960 Fair Park High School graduate and a [[Vietnam War]] veteran, recipient of a [[Purple Heart]] and three [[Bronze Star]]s,<ref name=jbsobit/> who retired after thirty-six years with [[Ford]] Motor Company at the title of superintendent
A memorial service for Jimmy Shoalmire was held in the [[Mike Mansfield]] Room in the [[United States Capitol]], with the Senate chaplain officiating. Another memorial service followed in Shreveport. Shoalmire, who was a [[Baptist]], is interred at Forest Park Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=statement/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shoalmire, Jimmy G.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Mississippi]]
[[Category:Virginia]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Lobbyists]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:Baptists]]