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The son of Samuel A. Caldwell and the former Alice Jeter, Caldwell was born and educated in Mooringsport in Caddo Parish.<ref name=polgr>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caldwell.html|title=Index to Politicians: Caldwell|publisher=politicalgraveyard.com|accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref> He then attended [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]. For nine years he was employed by Kansas City Southern Railway in the accounting and auditing departments. He worked seven years for Shell Oil Company, part of that tenure as the assistant superintendent of the land department. He was thereafter an independent oil operator affiliated with the Louisiana-Arkansas division of the then Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association.<ref name=annacaldwell/>​

The son of Samuel A. Caldwell and the former Alice Jeter, Caldwell was born and educated in Mooringsport in Caddo Parish.<ref name=polgr>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caldwell.html|title=Index to Politicians: Caldwell|publisher=politicalgraveyard.com|accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref> He then attended [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]. For nine years he was employed by Kansas City Southern Railway in the accounting and auditing departments. He worked seven years for Shell Oil Company, part of that tenure as the assistant superintendent of the land department. He was thereafter an independent oil operator affiliated with the Louisiana-Arkansas division of the then Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association.<ref name=annacaldwell/>​

==Political life==​

==Political life==

 

From 1932 to 1934, Caldwell served on the Caddo Parish Commission, then known as the police jury, the parish governing body akin to [[county commission]]s in other states.<ref name=polgr/> He was elected to four-year terms as mayor in 1934, 1938, and 1942. In this capacity, he worked to merge the municipal and parish boards of health into one entity and oversaw the stocking of Cross Lake, the city's water supply.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-c/|title=Caldwell, Samuel S.|publisher=[ouisiana Historical Association: ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' (lahistory.com)|accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>Lilla McLure and J. Ed Howe, ''History of Shreveport and Shreveport Builders'' (1937).</ref>​

From 1932 to 1934, Caldwell served on the Caddo Parish Commission, then known as the police jury, the parish governing body akin to [[county commission]]s in other states.<ref name=polgr/> He was elected to four-year terms as mayor in 1934, 1938, and 1942. In this capacity, he worked to merge the municipal and parish boards of health into one entity and oversaw the stocking of Cross Lake, the city's water supply.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-c/|title=Caldwell, Samuel S.|publisher=[ouisiana Historical Association: ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' (lahistory.com)|accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>Lilla McLure and J. Ed Howe, ''History of Shreveport and Shreveport Builders'' (1937).</ref>​

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