| − | '''David William Thomas, Sr.''' (August 12, 1876 – August 1, 1961), was a [[Wales|Welsh]]-[[United States|American]] "Renaissance man", [[journalist]], publisher, university [[professor]], poet, and [[attorney]] who served from 1936 to 1940<ref>City of Minden, List of Minden Mayors Since 1888</ref> as [[mayor]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], the seat of government of Webster Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<ref name=agan>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindenmemories.org/David%20William%20Thomas.htm|title=Echoes of Our Past: David William Thomas|publisher=''[[Minden Press-Herald]]'', through mindenmemories.org|author=John A. Agan, Webster Parish historian|date=May 22, 2008|accessdate=March 10, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=g_t0BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=Tom+Colten#v=onepage&q=Tom%20Colten&f=false|title=Lost Minden|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Columbia, South Carolina]]|author=John A. Agan|pages=119|date=2014|isbn=978-1-4671-1319-9|accessdate=March 9, 2015}}</ref> | + | '''David William Thomas, Sr.''' (August 12, 1876 – August 1, 1961), was a [[Wales|Welsh]]-[[United States|American]] "Renaissance man", [[journalist]], publisher, university [[professor]], poet, and [[attorney]] who served from 1936 to 1940<ref>City of Minden, List of Minden Mayors Since 1888</ref> as [[mayor]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], the seat of government of Webster Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<ref name=agan>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindenmemories.org/David%20William%20Thomas.htm|title=Echoes of Our Past: David William Thomas|publisher=''[[Minden Press-Herald]]'', through mindenmemories.org|author=[[John Agan]], Webster Parish historian|date=May 22, 2008|accessdate=March 10, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=g_t0BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=Tom+Colten#v=onepage&q=Tom%20Colten&f=false|title=Lost Minden|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=Mount Pleasant, South Carolina]]|author=John A. Agan|pages=119|date=2014|isbn=978-1-4671-1319-9|accessdate=March 9, 2015}}</ref> |