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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Oscar Henry Haynes, Jr.
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=[[Sheriff]] of Webster Parish, [[Louisiana]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| term_start=May 1, 1964
| term_end=July 1980
| preceded=[[J. D. Batton]]
| succeeded=[[Royce L. McMahen]], [[D.V.M.]]
| birth_date=October 28, 1920
| death_date=December 9, 1996 (aged 76)
| death_place=Minden, Louisiana
| resting_place=Minden Cemetery
| birth_place=[[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], Webster Parish
| occupation=[[Business]]man<br />
Law-enforcement officer
| spouse=Freddie Louise Walker Haynes (married c. 1939-1996, his death)
| children=O. H. Haynes, III<br />
[[Fred Haynes]] (1946-2006)<br />
Jerry Wayne Haynes, Sr. (1952-2014)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=jerry-haynes&pid=170405474&fhid=10239|title=Jerry Wayne Haynes Sr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=March 29, 2014}}</ref><br />
Gary Walker Haynes<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
[[O. H. Haynes, Sr.]]<br>
Mary Lynn Burns Haynes
| relations=[[Cleone Hodges]] (sister)
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
}}
'''Oscar Henry Haynes, Jr.''', known as '''O. H. Haynes, Jr.''' (October 28, 1920 – December 9, 1996), was from 1964 to 1980 the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[sheriff]] of Webster Parish, in northwestern [[Louisiana]]. He was also the parish [[Exxon]] distributor for some four decades.
==Background==
Haynes was born in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], the seat of government of Webster Parish, to [[O. H. Haynes, Sr.]], and the former Mary Lynn Burns (1889-1971). Originally from the [[village]] of Shongaloo north of Minden, the senior Haynes was the sheriff from 1933 to 1952. Haynes, Jr., graduated in 1939 from [[Minden (Louisiana) High School|Minden High School]], having played [[football]] on the MHS state championship team in 1938, twenty-five years before his son Fred played on the next MHS state championship team. Thereafter, he attended [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana, and secretly married his high school sweetheart, the former Freddie Louise "Sug" Walker (1924-2017), who was only fourteen at the time of the marriage.<ref name=jagan>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/cameo-remebering-freddie-sug-haynes/|title=Cameo: Remembering Freddie "Sug" Haynes|author=Juanita Agan|publisher=''[[Minden Press-Herald]]''|accessdate=August 22, 2017}}</ref> The announcement of their marriage came in 1940 when 16-year-old Freddie walked the stage to receive her Minden High School diploma.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=186410214|title=Freddie Haynes obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport t Times''|date=August 17, 2017|accessdate=August 17, 2017}}</ref> Mrs. Haynes was originally from the village of Ashland in northern [[Natchitoches Parish]], the youngest of four children of Fred Walker (1896-1954), who retired as a roadmaster with the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, and the former Lesca McCain (1900-1974). Freddie attended school in Readhimer, also in Natchitoches Parish, and then the former Ashland High School. The Walkers moved to Minden when Freddie Louise was starting high school.<ref name=jagan/>
Besides Fred Haynes, O. H. Jr., and Freddie Walker Haynes had three other sons, O. H. III, Jerry Wayne (1952-2014), and Gary Walker Haynes (born 1962), all of Minden.<ref name=obit>Death of O. H. Haynes Jr., ''Minden Press-Herald,'' December 10, 1996.</ref>
Prior to his sheriff's tenure, Haynes was the supervisor of all state driver's license offices within [[North Louisiana]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5eVZvsyb00C&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=J.+D.+Batton+of+Minden,+LA&source=bl&ots=G_xmoAl3pF&sig=gy2tY1NMiqDXK94gKqkvh0XP0hU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=e-YEVPmJG8f28QG5sIDICA&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=J.%20D.%20Batton%20of%20Minden%2C%20LA&f=false|title=Minden|series=Images of America|author=John Allison Agan (1958-2020)|date=2000|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]|pages=94|isbn=0-7385-0580-3|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref>
==Political races==
Haynes entered the Democratic primary held on December 7, 1963, in opposition to the incumbent Sheriff [[J. D. Batton]], the older brother of later [[Mayor]] [[Jack Batton]]. Another candidate was [[Royce L. McMahen|Royce L. "Doc" McMahen]], a veterinarian and a member of the city council in Springhill in northern Webster Parish, and Lawrence Harold Gilbert (1911-1995), the Minden municipal police chief. On the night before the primary election, Haynes's son, Fred, quarterbacked his Minden High School football team to the state championship in a home game against a team from Cutoff in Lafourche Parish.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=grfQzpojKc4C&pg=PT216&lpg=PT216&dq=J.+D.+Batton&source=bl&ots=4nHeyHMBdu&sig=ff5fMvEbDjxTuYeEMoQGFDR3ADg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=U94EVOecIcjf8AGK3IDgBA&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=J.%20D.%20Batton&f=false|title=Minden: Perseverance and Pride|author=John Agan|date=2002|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=Charleston, South Carolina|isbn=9781439630532|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref> Haynes trailed Batton by 722 votes in the primary, 1,993 to 2,719 votes.<ref>"Batton and Haynes Paired in Runoff for Sheriff's Post," ''Minden Press,'' December 9, 1963, p. 1.</ref>
McMahen ran a strong third with 1,484 votes in the primary. In the runoff contest, he endorsed Haynes, who then announced that McMahen would be his chief deputy. In the showdown with Batton, Haynes ran a newspaper advertisement in which he vowed to bring "capable, conscientious, and sober leadership" to the sheriff's department. He claimed that the issue was not any lack of physical equipment or the training of deputies but leadership skills of the individual elected as sheriff.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald,'' January 6, 1964.</ref> In the January 11 runoff, Haynes prevailed, 5,190 votes (53.4 percent) to Batton's 4,523 (46.6 percent).<ref>''Minden Press,'' January 13, 1964, p. 1.</ref><ref>"Haynes Defeats Batton in Webster Runoff Vote," ''The Shreveport Times,'' January 12, 1964, p. 1.</ref>
In 1967, Haynes scored a second term by again defeating Batton, who stressed his past accomplishments as sheriff, and another primary rival, C. J. "Red" Vaughan, the former city marshal in Springhill and the operator of a gasoline service station. Vaughan challenged Haynes in regard to unsolved crimes, such as the theft of cattle and oilfield equipment and the stripping of tires and accessories from automobiles.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'' (advertisement), November 1, 1967, p. 11.</ref> Haynes prevailed with 6,952 ballots (53.3 percent) to Batton's 5,456 (41.8 percent) and Vaughan's 634 (4.9 percent). Haynes actually lost the Minden area by five hundred votes to Batton but more than compensated with his margin in the remainder of the parish.<ref>"Haynes Uses Ward 2 Margin for Victory," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' November 6, 1967, p. 1.</ref>
In the 1971 Democratic primary, Haynes defeated two opponents, the Minden ward marshal, John T. Kennon, Jr. (1928–2005), a nephew of former Governor [[Robert F. Kennon]], and a former sheriff's deputy, H. H. "Boots" Johnston (1923-1990),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Johnston&GSfn=H&GSmn=H&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=55040720&df=all&|title=H. H. "Boots" Johnston|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 28, 2020}}</ref> who called himself an "[[Independent voter|independent]]" but within the Democratic Party. Haynes outpolled his rivals by nearly 2,500 votes parish-wide.<ref>"Record Vote Turnout See Here on Saturday," ''Minden Press-Herald," November 8, 1971, p. 1.</ref> In the [[general election]]s of both February 6, 1968, and February 1, 1972, Haynes coasted to reelection with five-to-one margins in defeating the [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate, George Alvin Pipes (1913–1976), a guard at the former Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant, a pipefitter, and a resident of Dubberly in south Webster Parish. Pipes was unable to gain traction in the campaign.<ref>"Haynes Winner over Pipes in Sheriff's Race," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' February 7, 1968, p. 1.</ref><ref>"O.H. Haynes Re-Elected As Sheriff," ''Minden Press-Herald,''February 2, 1972, p. 1.</ref> Pipes had also been one of several low-performing Democratic candidate for sheriff in the 1963 primary against Batton and Haynes.<ref>''Minden Press,'' December 9, 1963, p. 1.</ref>
In his last election in 1975, Haynes defeated Ward Marshal Anthony John "Johnny" Lombardino (1920-2005), recipient of a [[Bronze Star]] in the European Theater of Operations in [[World War II]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lombardino&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1168&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=31294283&df=all&|title=Sgt. Anthony John Lombardino|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 28, 2020}}</ref> who had succeeded John T. Kennon in that position, and a third candidate, Waymon Nealy. Haynes polled 8,344 votes (57.7 percent) to Kennon's 5,905 ballots (40.5 percent), and Nealy's 192 votes (1.8 percent), respectively.<ref>"Haynes to Serve Fourth Term," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' November 3, 1975, p. 1.</ref>
==Running the department==
In Louisiana, the sheriff is the collector of property taxes and also enforces criminal laws outside the municipalities.
Haynes appointed the [[African-American]] deputy Louis Dunbar Sr. (1914–1986), whose son "Sweet" Lou Dunbar, became, like Haynes' son, a distinguished athlete. Dunbar played for twenty-seven years for the [[Harlem Globetrotters]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MQelr-MNkA|title=Louis Dunbar|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref> Another black deputy, Ivory "Brother" Hawkins, Sr. (1925-2018), was also the first black hired previously by the Minden Police Department and a bus driver for the public school system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/ivory-brother-hawkins-sr/|title=Ivory "Brother" Hawkins, Sr.|publisher=Minden Press-Herald|date=July 13, 2018|accessdate=July 14, 2018}}</ref>
In 1977, the sheriff's office and the Springhill Police Department were accused of corrupt practices in a series of investigative reports by [[Craig Flournoy]] and [[Bill Keith]] of the since defunct ''[[Shreveport Journal]].'' The newspaper alleged that the two departments had covered up cases of [[prostitution]], ticket-fixing, stolen bond money, and [[narcotics]] violations. Investigations by chief criminal sheriff's deputy T. C. Bloxom Jr. and Mayor M. A. Gleason Jr. of Springhill uncovered no evidence of wrongdoing. While hospitalized in Shreveport for [[bronchitis]], Haynes denied all allegations,<ref>"Sheriff Haynes answers charges of corruption," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' October 6, 1977, pp. 1, 8A.</ref> and the investigations ultimately cleared Haynes. State Attorney General [[William J. Guste]] returned no [[indictment]] from a [[grand jury]] looking into the case.<ref>"Guste returns no indictment in Springhill case," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' October 25, 1977, p. 1.</ref>
Haynes did not seek a fifth term in 1979 but instead supported McMahen as his successor. After four terms, McMahen retired and was succeeded by a former state police officer, [[Ted Riser]].
==Lynching and beating case==
When he was chief deputy under his father, Haynes and five other men, Samuel Clinton Maddry Sr. (1893-1973), Charles Melvin Edwards, Harry Edward Perry, Willie Drayton Perkins (1903-1949), and Benjamin Garey Gantt (1890-1948), were [[Indictment|indicted]] in connection with the [[lynching]] death of John Cecil Jones and the mortal beating of Albert Harris Jr., both African Americans.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q3V5P89TUAYC&pg=PA246&lpg=PA246&dq=Malcolm+Lafargue&source=bl&ots=_JXEcXFdUX&sig=jep-pcYIL9e8rGbU5RDqxvnPAy0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fxbhVKn0C9jpoATmqoHQBA&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=Malcolm%20Lafargue&f=false|title=Lynching in America: A History in Documents|author=Christopher Waldrep|publisher=[[New York University]] Press|location=[[New York City]]|pages=146–147|date=2006|isbn=978-08147-9398-5|accessdate=February 16, 2015}}</ref> The two deaths occurred at Dorcheat Bayou west of Minden.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9-RIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XwINAAAAIBAJ&dq=lewd&pg=4530%2C1373160|title=Five Facing Trial for Lynching of Negro Ex-Soldier|date=October 18, 1946|publisher=''The Meridian Daily Journal''|page=2|accessdate=10 May 2012}}</ref> Though a deputy sheriff, Haynes was effectively acting as sheriff because his father had been injured from a gunshot wound.<ref>''Minden Press'' and ''Minden Herald'' (then separate newspapers), August 1946.</ref>
Haynes Jr. took Albert Harris, who was a teenager, into custody over an alleged trespassing charge in the backyard of a white woman. He was released to a mob in Dixie Inn, which took him to a field near Cotton Valley. He was bound upside down to a pipe and severely beaten. Sheriff's deputies picked up the cousin of Harris Jr.'s – John Cecil Jones – at his job. Both men were placed in the parish jail for days without formal charges and beaten. Jones was an honorably-discharged [[World War II]] [[United States Army]] [[corporal]]. On August 8, 1946, Haynes released Jones and Harris Jr. to a mob at the old parish jail in Minden. This led to the only known post-World War II lynching in Louisiana. Harris and Jones were tortured just south of Minden. Jones was hanged, and Harris was left for dead.<ref name=fbifile>FBI File 44-1444</ref> The last legal hanging in Minden had been prior to 1890. Thereafter, convicts being put to death were sent to the state penitentiary at Angola in West Feliciana Parish.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g_t0BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=Tom+Colten&source=bl&ots=frCU6aVj_E&sig=qa4-IvKaTIzj9BGXTKwRhweGBc0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vTP-VNTKObO1sAS37YHYDg&ved=0CF0Q6AEwDg#v=onepage&q=Tom%20Colten&f=false|title=Lost Minden|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Columbia, South Carolina]]|author=John Allison Agan|pages=120|date=2014|isbn=978-1-4671-1319-9|accessdate=March 9, 2015}}</ref>
The charges against Chief Garey Gantt were dropped by U.S. Attorney [[Malcolm Lafargue]] after Gantt cooperated with officials. The other defendants were found not guilty by a jury of twelve white men in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in [[Shreveport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qoLa8ysYUIC&pg=PA114&dq=%22Malcolm+Lafargue%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KkzeVKeMMcWuyATjyoG4Ag&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Malcolm%20Lafargue%22&f=false|title=A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press|location=[[Baton Rouge]]|pages=114–115|author=Rachel L. Emanuel and Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr.|date=2011|isbn=978-0-8071-3793-2|accessdate=February 13, 2015}}</ref>
==Later years==
[Haynes returned to private business in 1980. He was a [[Southern Baptist]]. He died at his residence at 628 Pine Street in Minden after a lengthy illness. He is interred in the Haynes-Walker family plot in the Minden Cemetery.<ref name=obit/> Haynes had two brothers, the late J. Y. Haynes and Delmus Wells Haynes (1918-1919), who died shortly before his second birthday and is interred at Old Shongaloo Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wileyfamilyofshongaloo.familytreeguide.com/getperson.php?personID=I07342&tree=T1|title=Delmus Wells Haynes|publisher=Wiley Family of Shongaloo|accessdate=September 14, 2014}}</ref>
His only sister, [[Cleone Hodges]], was a professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.press-herald.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3767:ms-cleone-haynes-hodges-&catid=65:obituaries&Itemid=115|title=Cleone Haynes Hodges|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald,''|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> He was the father of [[Louisiana State University]] football star [[Fred Haynes]], who played for the LSU Tigers in [[Baton Rouge]] during the latter 1960s.
O. H. Haynes, III (born November 5, 1943), was employed in various capacities in the sheriff's office from 1973 until his retirement in 2008. His second wife, Debbie Vaughan Haynes, the daughter of Billy Norton Vaughan (1932-2010),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Vaughan&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1168&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=53361454&df=all&|title=Billy Norton Vaughan|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 28, 2020}</ref> was an administrative assistant to former Sheriff Gary Sexton. Their son, O.H. "Hank" Haynes, IV (born May 4, 1967), is a Louisiana State Police trooper.
<ref>Jana Ryan, "Haynes retires after 35 years with the WP Sheriff's Office," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' September 4, 2008, p. 1.</ref> Gary Haynes, the youngest of the sons of Freddie Louise and O. H. Haynes, Jr., owns two Minden businesses. He was from 1985 to 1987 a football and baseball coach at his alma mater, Minden High School and from 1989 to 1992 a baseball and basketball coach at Lakeside High School (formerly Sibley High School) in south Webster Parish, at which he started the football program.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gary-haynes/6b/908/b93|title=Gary Haynes|publisher=linkedin.com|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref>
One of Haynes' great-grandsons, Jeffrey Hayden Haynes (born October 1989), a grandson of O. H. Haynes III,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genlookups.com/la/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/927|title=Obituary of Stanton Allen Haynes (brother of Jeffrey Hayden Haynes)|publisher=genlookups.com|date=May 8, 2015|accessdate=December 28, 2016}}</ref> was an aide to former [[U.S. Senator]] [[David Vitter]] and is the chief of staff for current Republican [[U.S. Representative]] [[Mike Johnson]] of Louisiana's 4th congressional district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2016/12/22/hayden-haynes-leads-us-rep-elect-johnsons-congressional-staff/95746478/|title=Hayden Haynes leads US Rep.-elect Johnson's congressional staff|date=December 22, 2016|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|accessdate=December 28, 2016}}</ref>
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| name=Oscar Henry Haynes, Jr.
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=[[Sheriff]] of Webster Parish, [[Louisiana]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| term_start=May 1, 1964
| term_end=July 1980
| preceded=[[J. D. Batton]]
| succeeded=[[Royce L. McMahen]], [[D.V.M.]]
| birth_date=October 28, 1920
| death_date=December 9, 1996 (aged 76)
| death_place=Minden, Louisiana
| resting_place=Minden Cemetery
| birth_place=[[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], Webster Parish
| occupation=[[Business]]man<br />
Law-enforcement officer
| spouse=Freddie Louise Walker Haynes (married c. 1939-1996, his death)
| children=O. H. Haynes, III<br />
[[Fred Haynes]] (1946-2006)<br />
Jerry Wayne Haynes, Sr. (1952-2014)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=jerry-haynes&pid=170405474&fhid=10239|title=Jerry Wayne Haynes Sr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=March 29, 2014}}</ref><br />
Gary Walker Haynes<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
[[O. H. Haynes, Sr.]]<br>
Mary Lynn Burns Haynes
| relations=[[Cleone Hodges]] (sister)
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
}}
'''Oscar Henry Haynes, Jr.''', known as '''O. H. Haynes, Jr.''' (October 28, 1920 – December 9, 1996), was from 1964 to 1980 the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[sheriff]] of Webster Parish, in northwestern [[Louisiana]]. He was also the parish [[Exxon]] distributor for some four decades.
==Background==
Haynes was born in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], the seat of government of Webster Parish, to [[O. H. Haynes, Sr.]], and the former Mary Lynn Burns (1889-1971). Originally from the [[village]] of Shongaloo north of Minden, the senior Haynes was the sheriff from 1933 to 1952. Haynes, Jr., graduated in 1939 from [[Minden (Louisiana) High School|Minden High School]], having played [[football]] on the MHS state championship team in 1938, twenty-five years before his son Fred played on the next MHS state championship team. Thereafter, he attended [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana, and secretly married his high school sweetheart, the former Freddie Louise "Sug" Walker (1924-2017), who was only fourteen at the time of the marriage.<ref name=jagan>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/cameo-remebering-freddie-sug-haynes/|title=Cameo: Remembering Freddie "Sug" Haynes|author=Juanita Agan|publisher=''[[Minden Press-Herald]]''|accessdate=August 22, 2017}}</ref> The announcement of their marriage came in 1940 when 16-year-old Freddie walked the stage to receive her Minden High School diploma.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=186410214|title=Freddie Haynes obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport t Times''|date=August 17, 2017|accessdate=August 17, 2017}}</ref> Mrs. Haynes was originally from the village of Ashland in northern [[Natchitoches Parish]], the youngest of four children of Fred Walker (1896-1954), who retired as a roadmaster with the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, and the former Lesca McCain (1900-1974). Freddie attended school in Readhimer, also in Natchitoches Parish, and then the former Ashland High School. The Walkers moved to Minden when Freddie Louise was starting high school.<ref name=jagan/>
Besides Fred Haynes, O. H. Jr., and Freddie Walker Haynes had three other sons, O. H. III, Jerry Wayne (1952-2014), and Gary Walker Haynes (born 1962), all of Minden.<ref name=obit>Death of O. H. Haynes Jr., ''Minden Press-Herald,'' December 10, 1996.</ref>
Prior to his sheriff's tenure, Haynes was the supervisor of all state driver's license offices within [[North Louisiana]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5eVZvsyb00C&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=J.+D.+Batton+of+Minden,+LA&source=bl&ots=G_xmoAl3pF&sig=gy2tY1NMiqDXK94gKqkvh0XP0hU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=e-YEVPmJG8f28QG5sIDICA&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=J.%20D.%20Batton%20of%20Minden%2C%20LA&f=false|title=Minden|series=Images of America|author=John Allison Agan (1958-2020)|date=2000|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]|pages=94|isbn=0-7385-0580-3|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref>
==Political races==
Haynes entered the Democratic primary held on December 7, 1963, in opposition to the incumbent Sheriff [[J. D. Batton]], the older brother of later [[Mayor]] [[Jack Batton]]. Another candidate was [[Royce L. McMahen|Royce L. "Doc" McMahen]], a veterinarian and a member of the city council in Springhill in northern Webster Parish, and Lawrence Harold Gilbert (1911-1995), the Minden municipal police chief. On the night before the primary election, Haynes's son, Fred, quarterbacked his Minden High School football team to the state championship in a home game against a team from Cutoff in Lafourche Parish.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=grfQzpojKc4C&pg=PT216&lpg=PT216&dq=J.+D.+Batton&source=bl&ots=4nHeyHMBdu&sig=ff5fMvEbDjxTuYeEMoQGFDR3ADg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=U94EVOecIcjf8AGK3IDgBA&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=J.%20D.%20Batton&f=false|title=Minden: Perseverance and Pride|author=John Agan|date=2002|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=Charleston, South Carolina|isbn=9781439630532|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref> Haynes trailed Batton by 722 votes in the primary, 1,993 to 2,719 votes.<ref>"Batton and Haynes Paired in Runoff for Sheriff's Post," ''Minden Press,'' December 9, 1963, p. 1.</ref>
McMahen ran a strong third with 1,484 votes in the primary. In the runoff contest, he endorsed Haynes, who then announced that McMahen would be his chief deputy. In the showdown with Batton, Haynes ran a newspaper advertisement in which he vowed to bring "capable, conscientious, and sober leadership" to the sheriff's department. He claimed that the issue was not any lack of physical equipment or the training of deputies but leadership skills of the individual elected as sheriff.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald,'' January 6, 1964.</ref> In the January 11 runoff, Haynes prevailed, 5,190 votes (53.4 percent) to Batton's 4,523 (46.6 percent).<ref>''Minden Press,'' January 13, 1964, p. 1.</ref><ref>"Haynes Defeats Batton in Webster Runoff Vote," ''The Shreveport Times,'' January 12, 1964, p. 1.</ref>
In 1967, Haynes scored a second term by again defeating Batton, who stressed his past accomplishments as sheriff, and another primary rival, C. J. "Red" Vaughan, the former city marshal in Springhill and the operator of a gasoline service station. Vaughan challenged Haynes in regard to unsolved crimes, such as the theft of cattle and oilfield equipment and the stripping of tires and accessories from automobiles.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'' (advertisement), November 1, 1967, p. 11.</ref> Haynes prevailed with 6,952 ballots (53.3 percent) to Batton's 5,456 (41.8 percent) and Vaughan's 634 (4.9 percent). Haynes actually lost the Minden area by five hundred votes to Batton but more than compensated with his margin in the remainder of the parish.<ref>"Haynes Uses Ward 2 Margin for Victory," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' November 6, 1967, p. 1.</ref>
In the 1971 Democratic primary, Haynes defeated two opponents, the Minden ward marshal, John T. Kennon, Jr. (1928–2005), a nephew of former Governor [[Robert F. Kennon]], and a former sheriff's deputy, H. H. "Boots" Johnston (1923-1990),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Johnston&GSfn=H&GSmn=H&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=55040720&df=all&|title=H. H. "Boots" Johnston|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 28, 2020}}</ref> who called himself an "[[Independent voter|independent]]" but within the Democratic Party. Haynes outpolled his rivals by nearly 2,500 votes parish-wide.<ref>"Record Vote Turnout See Here on Saturday," ''Minden Press-Herald," November 8, 1971, p. 1.</ref> In the [[general election]]s of both February 6, 1968, and February 1, 1972, Haynes coasted to reelection with five-to-one margins in defeating the [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate, George Alvin Pipes (1913–1976), a guard at the former Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant, a pipefitter, and a resident of Dubberly in south Webster Parish. Pipes was unable to gain traction in the campaign.<ref>"Haynes Winner over Pipes in Sheriff's Race," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' February 7, 1968, p. 1.</ref><ref>"O.H. Haynes Re-Elected As Sheriff," ''Minden Press-Herald,''February 2, 1972, p. 1.</ref> Pipes had also been one of several low-performing Democratic candidate for sheriff in the 1963 primary against Batton and Haynes.<ref>''Minden Press,'' December 9, 1963, p. 1.</ref>
In his last election in 1975, Haynes defeated Ward Marshal Anthony John "Johnny" Lombardino (1920-2005), recipient of a [[Bronze Star]] in the European Theater of Operations in [[World War II]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lombardino&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1168&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=31294283&df=all&|title=Sgt. Anthony John Lombardino|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 28, 2020}}</ref> who had succeeded John T. Kennon in that position, and a third candidate, Waymon Nealy. Haynes polled 8,344 votes (57.7 percent) to Kennon's 5,905 ballots (40.5 percent), and Nealy's 192 votes (1.8 percent), respectively.<ref>"Haynes to Serve Fourth Term," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' November 3, 1975, p. 1.</ref>
==Running the department==
In Louisiana, the sheriff is the collector of property taxes and also enforces criminal laws outside the municipalities.
Haynes appointed the [[African-American]] deputy Louis Dunbar Sr. (1914–1986), whose son "Sweet" Lou Dunbar, became, like Haynes' son, a distinguished athlete. Dunbar played for twenty-seven years for the [[Harlem Globetrotters]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MQelr-MNkA|title=Louis Dunbar|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref> Another black deputy, Ivory "Brother" Hawkins, Sr. (1925-2018), was also the first black hired previously by the Minden Police Department and a bus driver for the public school system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/ivory-brother-hawkins-sr/|title=Ivory "Brother" Hawkins, Sr.|publisher=Minden Press-Herald|date=July 13, 2018|accessdate=July 14, 2018}}</ref>
In 1977, the sheriff's office and the Springhill Police Department were accused of corrupt practices in a series of investigative reports by [[Craig Flournoy]] and [[Bill Keith]] of the since defunct ''[[Shreveport Journal]].'' The newspaper alleged that the two departments had covered up cases of [[prostitution]], ticket-fixing, stolen bond money, and [[narcotics]] violations. Investigations by chief criminal sheriff's deputy T. C. Bloxom Jr. and Mayor M. A. Gleason Jr. of Springhill uncovered no evidence of wrongdoing. While hospitalized in Shreveport for [[bronchitis]], Haynes denied all allegations,<ref>"Sheriff Haynes answers charges of corruption," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' October 6, 1977, pp. 1, 8A.</ref> and the investigations ultimately cleared Haynes. State Attorney General [[William J. Guste]] returned no [[indictment]] from a [[grand jury]] looking into the case.<ref>"Guste returns no indictment in Springhill case," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' October 25, 1977, p. 1.</ref>
Haynes did not seek a fifth term in 1979 but instead supported McMahen as his successor. After four terms, McMahen retired and was succeeded by a former state police officer, [[Ted Riser]].
==Lynching and beating case==
When he was chief deputy under his father, Haynes and five other men, Samuel Clinton Maddry Sr. (1893-1973), Charles Melvin Edwards, Harry Edward Perry, Willie Drayton Perkins (1903-1949), and Benjamin Garey Gantt (1890-1948), were [[Indictment|indicted]] in connection with the [[lynching]] death of John Cecil Jones and the mortal beating of Albert Harris Jr., both African Americans.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q3V5P89TUAYC&pg=PA246&lpg=PA246&dq=Malcolm+Lafargue&source=bl&ots=_JXEcXFdUX&sig=jep-pcYIL9e8rGbU5RDqxvnPAy0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fxbhVKn0C9jpoATmqoHQBA&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=Malcolm%20Lafargue&f=false|title=Lynching in America: A History in Documents|author=Christopher Waldrep|publisher=[[New York University]] Press|location=[[New York City]]|pages=146–147|date=2006|isbn=978-08147-9398-5|accessdate=February 16, 2015}}</ref> The two deaths occurred at Dorcheat Bayou west of Minden.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9-RIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XwINAAAAIBAJ&dq=lewd&pg=4530%2C1373160|title=Five Facing Trial for Lynching of Negro Ex-Soldier|date=October 18, 1946|publisher=''The Meridian Daily Journal''|page=2|accessdate=10 May 2012}}</ref> Though a deputy sheriff, Haynes was effectively acting as sheriff because his father had been injured from a gunshot wound.<ref>''Minden Press'' and ''Minden Herald'' (then separate newspapers), August 1946.</ref>
Haynes Jr. took Albert Harris, who was a teenager, into custody over an alleged trespassing charge in the backyard of a white woman. He was released to a mob in Dixie Inn, which took him to a field near Cotton Valley. He was bound upside down to a pipe and severely beaten. Sheriff's deputies picked up the cousin of Harris Jr.'s – John Cecil Jones – at his job. Both men were placed in the parish jail for days without formal charges and beaten. Jones was an honorably-discharged [[World War II]] [[United States Army]] [[corporal]]. On August 8, 1946, Haynes released Jones and Harris Jr. to a mob at the old parish jail in Minden. This led to the only known post-World War II lynching in Louisiana. Harris and Jones were tortured just south of Minden. Jones was hanged, and Harris was left for dead.<ref name=fbifile>FBI File 44-1444</ref> The last legal hanging in Minden had been prior to 1890. Thereafter, convicts being put to death were sent to the state penitentiary at Angola in West Feliciana Parish.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g_t0BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=Tom+Colten&source=bl&ots=frCU6aVj_E&sig=qa4-IvKaTIzj9BGXTKwRhweGBc0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vTP-VNTKObO1sAS37YHYDg&ved=0CF0Q6AEwDg#v=onepage&q=Tom%20Colten&f=false|title=Lost Minden|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Columbia, South Carolina]]|author=John Allison Agan|pages=120|date=2014|isbn=978-1-4671-1319-9|accessdate=March 9, 2015}}</ref>
The charges against Chief Garey Gantt were dropped by U.S. Attorney [[Malcolm Lafargue]] after Gantt cooperated with officials. The other defendants were found not guilty by a jury of twelve white men in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in [[Shreveport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qoLa8ysYUIC&pg=PA114&dq=%22Malcolm+Lafargue%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KkzeVKeMMcWuyATjyoG4Ag&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Malcolm%20Lafargue%22&f=false|title=A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press|location=[[Baton Rouge]]|pages=114–115|author=Rachel L. Emanuel and Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr.|date=2011|isbn=978-0-8071-3793-2|accessdate=February 13, 2015}}</ref>
==Later years==
[Haynes returned to private business in 1980. He was a [[Southern Baptist]]. He died at his residence at 628 Pine Street in Minden after a lengthy illness. He is interred in the Haynes-Walker family plot in the Minden Cemetery.<ref name=obit/> Haynes had two brothers, the late J. Y. Haynes and Delmus Wells Haynes (1918-1919), who died shortly before his second birthday and is interred at Old Shongaloo Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wileyfamilyofshongaloo.familytreeguide.com/getperson.php?personID=I07342&tree=T1|title=Delmus Wells Haynes|publisher=Wiley Family of Shongaloo|accessdate=September 14, 2014}}</ref>
His only sister, [[Cleone Hodges]], was a professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.press-herald.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3767:ms-cleone-haynes-hodges-&catid=65:obituaries&Itemid=115|title=Cleone Haynes Hodges|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald,''|accessdate=September 15, 2012}}</ref> He was the father of [[Louisiana State University]] football star [[Fred Haynes]], who played for the LSU Tigers in [[Baton Rouge]] during the latter 1960s.
O. H. Haynes, III (born November 5, 1943), was employed in various capacities in the sheriff's office from 1973 until his retirement in 2008. His second wife, Debbie Vaughan Haynes, the daughter of Billy Norton Vaughan (1932-2010),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Vaughan&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1168&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=53361454&df=all&|title=Billy Norton Vaughan|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 28, 2020}</ref> was an administrative assistant to former Sheriff Gary Sexton. Their son, O.H. "Hank" Haynes, IV (born May 4, 1967), is a Louisiana State Police trooper.
<ref>Jana Ryan, "Haynes retires after 35 years with the WP Sheriff's Office," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' September 4, 2008, p. 1.</ref> Gary Haynes, the youngest of the sons of Freddie Louise and O. H. Haynes, Jr., owns two Minden businesses. He was from 1985 to 1987 a football and baseball coach at his alma mater, Minden High School and from 1989 to 1992 a baseball and basketball coach at Lakeside High School (formerly Sibley High School) in south Webster Parish, at which he started the football program.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gary-haynes/6b/908/b93|title=Gary Haynes|publisher=linkedin.com|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref>
One of Haynes' great-grandsons, Jeffrey Hayden Haynes (born October 1989), a grandson of O. H. Haynes III,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genlookups.com/la/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/927|title=Obituary of Stanton Allen Haynes (brother of Jeffrey Hayden Haynes)|publisher=genlookups.com|date=May 8, 2015|accessdate=December 28, 2016}}</ref> was an aide to former [[U.S. Senator]] [[David Vitter]] and is the chief of staff for current Republican [[U.S. Representative]] [[Mike Johnson]] of Louisiana's 4th congressional district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2016/12/22/hayden-haynes-leads-us-rep-elect-johnsons-congressional-staff/95746478/|title=Hayden Haynes leads US Rep.-elect Johnson's congressional staff|date=December 22, 2016|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|accessdate=December 28, 2016}}</ref>
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