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Herman "Wimpy" Jones (view source)
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==Legislative races==
==Legislative races==
In 1947, Jones ran for the Louisiana House seat from Bossier Parish. He lost by seventy-seven votes to incumbent Representative Jimmy Boyd.<ref>{{cite web|url=
In 1947, Jones ran for the Louisiana House seat from Bossier Parish. He lost by seventy-seven votes to incumbent Representative Jimmy Boyd.<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://www.legis.la.gov/legisdocs/members/h1812-2020.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2020 (Bossier Parish)|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=September 25, 2019}}</ref> In 1952, Jones narrowly lost a primary election to the state Senate to John Jones Doles, Sr., a Plain Dealing banker whom Jones described as "a friend."<ref>"44 Candidates Qualified," ''Minden Herald,'' October 15, 1955, p.1</ref>
https://www.legis.la.gov/legisdocs/members/h1812-2020.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2020 (Bossier Parish)|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=September 25, 2019}}</ref> In 1952, Jones narrowly lost a primary election to the state Senate to John Jones Doles, Sr. (1895-1970), a banker from Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish whom Jones described as "a friend."<ref>"44 Candidates Qualified," ''Minden Herald,'' October 15, 1955, p. 1.</ref>
On February 21, 1956, Jones rebounded to defeat businessman and former educator [[Harold Montgomery]] of Doyline in south Webster Parish in the Democratic [[primary]] runoff election for the Bossier/Webster Senate seat vacated by Doles after a single term. A third candidate, Minden businessman and educator Lloyd C. Starr (1899–1982), was eliminated in the first primary. Jones claimed, as having been the House assistant sergeant-at-arms, that he knew personally nearly all the legislators and would hence be ready from the first day to represent the northwest Louisiana district. Jones polled 6,734 votes (50.7 percent) to Montgomery's 6,542 (49.3 percent), a margin of 192 votes.<ref>''Minden Press,'' January 17, 1956, p. 1.</ref> No [[Republican Party|Republicans]] sought the position. District 36 obtained its first Republican senator in 2007, when Robert Roy Adley of Benton, switched parties shortly after his election as a Democrat.
On February 21, 1956, Jones rebounded to defeat businessman and former educator [[Harold Montgomery]] of Doyline in south Webster Parish in the Democratic [[primary]] runoff election for the Bossier/Webster Senate seat vacated by Doles after a single term. A third candidate, Minden businessman and educator Lloyd C. Starr (1899–1982), was eliminated in the first primary. Jones claimed, as having been the House assistant sergeant-at-arms, that he knew personally nearly all the legislators and would hence be ready from the first day to represent the northwest Louisiana district. Jones polled 6,734 votes (50.7 percent) to Montgomery's 6,542 (49.3 percent), a margin of 192 votes.<ref>''Minden Press,'' January 17, 1956, p. 1.</ref> No [[Republican Party|Republicans]] sought the position. District 36 obtained its first Republican senator in 2007, when Robert Roy Adley of Benton, switched parties shortly after his election as a Democrat.