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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Adolphe Jolna Lafargue
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for Avoyelles Parish
| term_star=1892
| term_end=1899
| preceded=Aristide Barbin<br>
James K. Bond
|succeeded=J. E. Didier<br>
William A. Morrow
|office2=[[Judge]] of the Louisiana 10th District Court
|term_start2=1899
|term_end2=1912
|office3=Judge of the Louisiana 14th District Court
|term_start3=1912
|term_end3=1917
|birth_date =October 3, 1855
|birth_place=Marksvill, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
|death_date=January 24, 1917 (aged 61) = {{death date and age|1917|1|24|1855|10|3}}
|death_place = Marksville, Louisiana
|resting_place=Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum No. 1 in Marksville
|occupation=[[Attorney]]; [[Newspaper]] [[publisher]]; [[Politician]]
|alma_mater=Jefferson College (St. James Parish)<br>
[[Tulane University]]
|spouse=(1) Annie Winn Irion Lafargue (died 1890)<br>
(2) Emma Irion Lafargue
|children==Walter Strong Lafargue<br>
Edwin Louis Lafargue<br>
[[Alvan Lafargue]]<br>
Sidney Eustis Lafargue<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Pierre Adolphe and Zepherine M. Zorich Lafargue
|relations=Malcolm Lafargue (grandson)<br>
Alfred Briggs Irion (father-in-law)<br>
Arnaud D. Lafargue (brother)
|residence=Marksville, Louisiana
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}
'''Adolphe Jolna Lafargue''' (October 3, 1855 – January 24, 1917)<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web |url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lafargue&GSfn=Adolphe&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1917&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=73384092&df=all&|title=Adolphe Jolna Lafargue|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref><ref>Some sources, including findagrave.com, list his middle name as "Jolmeus", but his gravestone uses only the middle initial "J."</ref> was an [[attorney]], [[Democratic Party |Democratic]] [[politician]], and [[newspaper]] [[publisher]] in his native Marksville in Avoyelles Parish in south central [[Louisiana]].<ref>[[Henry E. Chambers]], "Walter S. Lafargue,", ''History of Louisiana,'' Vol. 1 ([[Chicago]] and [[New York City]]: American Historical Society, Inc., 1925).</ref>
==Background==
Descended from a prominent family originally from the [[Pyrenees Mountains]], Lafargue's father, Pierre Adolphe Lafargue (1818-1869), was born in Orthez, [[France]]. The senior Lafargue later dropped "Pierre" from his name and was known only as "Adolphe Lafargue." While he was teaching school in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]], he wed the former Zepherine Michel Zorich, a member of an influential family from the Rachal community. They had a daughter and two sons, Adolphe and Arnaud, both of whom became members of the Louisiana House of Representatives. The senior Lafargue subsequently became a professor of [[French]] and [[mathematics]] at the former Jefferson College in Convent in St. James Parish, Louisiana and then at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]], known then as the "University of Louisiana." He subsequently settled in Marksville and became superintendent of public instruction for Avoyelles Parish. In 1856, he founded Marksville High School. He was also a [[mayor]] of Marksville.<ref name=familyhistory>{{cite web|url=http://larc.tulane.edu/help/guides/LaFargue|title=Brief Family History|publisher=larc.tulane.edu|accessdate=February 19, 2015}}</ref> The senior Lafargue started the newspaper then named ''The Pelican'' and later ''The Marksville Villager.''<ref name=doctors>{{cite web|url=http://library.mcneese.edu/depts/archive/FTBooks/reid%20doctors.htm|title=Early Calcasieu Doctors|publisher=mcneese.edu|accessdate=February 17, 2011}}</ref>
==Career==
Adolphe Jolna Lafargue was educated at the former Jefferson College and then studied law at what became Tulane University. He returned to Marksville in 1880 to publish and edit ''The Marksville Bulletin'',<ref name=familyhistory/> later ''The Marksville Weekly News,'' the name still in use. The publication is the oldest continuously operating newspaper in Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.angelfire.com/la/avoyelles/|title=Newspapers of Avoyelles|publisher=angelfire.com|accessdate=February 17, 2011}}</ref> In 1878, Adolphe Lafargue married Annie Winn Irion (1860-1890), the daughter of [[U. S. Representative]] Alfred Briggs Irion (1833-1903) of Louisiana's 6th congressional district, which then stretched northward into Avoyelles Parish. Representative Irion was originally from [[rural]] Evergreen in Avoyelles Parish, where he had farming interests. Lafargue and his wife had four sons, Walter Strong (1878-1951), Edwin Louis (1881-1922), [[Alvan Lafargue|Alvan Henry, Sr.]], and Sidney Eustis (1885-1942). After Annie died, Adolphe married her sister, Emma (1870-1961), who died in New Orleans at the age of ninety. She was only eight years older than stepson Walter Strong Lafargue.<ref name=findagrave/>
In 1884, [[Governor]] Samuel D. McEnery (1837-1910) named Lafargue the Avoyelles Parish assessor. In 1886, Lafargue was appointed clerk of court. Both positions are now elected.<ref name=familyhistory/> Considered an excellent [[orator]], Adolphe Lafargue was elected to the Louisiana House in 1892.<ref name=house>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Avoyelles Parish|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref> In 1899, near the end of his second legislative term, Governor Murphy James Foster, Sr., (1849-1921) named him to fill an unexpired term as [[judge]] of the state 10th Judicial District. In 1912, he was elected judge of the 14th District, a position that he held until shortly before his death.<ref name=findagrave/><ref name=familyhistory/>
==Family==
Lafargue's brother, Arnaud D. Lafargue, served in the Louisiana House from 1916 to 1917. The brothers died the same year. Arnaud Lafargue was succeeded in the House by Willam A. Morrow, who eighteen years earlier had succeeded Adolphe Lafargue in the same position.<ref name=house/>
Oldest son Walter Lafargue of Thibodaux in Lafourche Parish,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lafargue&GSfn=Walter&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=91541057&df=all&|title=Walter Strong Lafargue|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref> was first the assistant principal of Thibodaux College and thereafter the long-term superintendent of schools in Lafourche Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.louisianacajun.com/msg/louisiana-cajun-forum-message-show.asp?id=24789&fid=202&tid=0|title=Genealogy search for Lafargues|publisher=louisianacajun.com|accessdate=February 18, 2011}}</ref> Third son [[Alvan Lafargue]] was a physician for fifty years and from 1926 to 1938 the three-term mayor of Sulphur in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana. He had been one of the first settlers of Sulphur and founded a hospital and a bi-parish fair there.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-l/|title=Lafargue, Alvan Henry|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' (Louisiana Historical Association)|accessdate=July 30, 2020</ref> A Lafargue grandson, Malcolm Lafargue (1908-1963), son of Edwin Louis Lafargue, was from 1941 to 1950 the United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, based in [[Shreveport]]. He resigned to run unsuccessfully for the [[United State Senate]] against his fellow Democrat [[Russell Long]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103311402|title=M. E. Lafargue, Former District Attorney, Dies – Succumbs in Sleep Here at Age 54; Services Saturday|publisher=''[[Shreveport Journal]]''|date=March 28, 1963|pages=1-A, 4-A|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref>
Lafargue is interred at Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum No. 1 in Marksville.<ref name=findagrave/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lafargue, Adolphe}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:France]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Newspaper publishers]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Catholics]]
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]
[[Category:Judges]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
|name=Adolphe Jolna Lafargue
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for Avoyelles Parish
| term_star=1892
| term_end=1899
| preceded=Aristide Barbin<br>
James K. Bond
|succeeded=J. E. Didier<br>
William A. Morrow
|office2=[[Judge]] of the Louisiana 10th District Court
|term_start2=1899
|term_end2=1912
|office3=Judge of the Louisiana 14th District Court
|term_start3=1912
|term_end3=1917
|birth_date =October 3, 1855
|birth_place=Marksvill, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
|death_date=January 24, 1917 (aged 61) = {{death date and age|1917|1|24|1855|10|3}}
|death_place = Marksville, Louisiana
|resting_place=Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum No. 1 in Marksville
|occupation=[[Attorney]]; [[Newspaper]] [[publisher]]; [[Politician]]
|alma_mater=Jefferson College (St. James Parish)<br>
[[Tulane University]]
|spouse=(1) Annie Winn Irion Lafargue (died 1890)<br>
(2) Emma Irion Lafargue
|children==Walter Strong Lafargue<br>
Edwin Louis Lafargue<br>
[[Alvan Lafargue]]<br>
Sidney Eustis Lafargue<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Pierre Adolphe and Zepherine M. Zorich Lafargue
|relations=Malcolm Lafargue (grandson)<br>
Alfred Briggs Irion (father-in-law)<br>
Arnaud D. Lafargue (brother)
|residence=Marksville, Louisiana
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}
'''Adolphe Jolna Lafargue''' (October 3, 1855 – January 24, 1917)<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web |url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lafargue&GSfn=Adolphe&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1917&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=73384092&df=all&|title=Adolphe Jolna Lafargue|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref><ref>Some sources, including findagrave.com, list his middle name as "Jolmeus", but his gravestone uses only the middle initial "J."</ref> was an [[attorney]], [[Democratic Party |Democratic]] [[politician]], and [[newspaper]] [[publisher]] in his native Marksville in Avoyelles Parish in south central [[Louisiana]].<ref>[[Henry E. Chambers]], "Walter S. Lafargue,", ''History of Louisiana,'' Vol. 1 ([[Chicago]] and [[New York City]]: American Historical Society, Inc., 1925).</ref>
==Background==
Descended from a prominent family originally from the [[Pyrenees Mountains]], Lafargue's father, Pierre Adolphe Lafargue (1818-1869), was born in Orthez, [[France]]. The senior Lafargue later dropped "Pierre" from his name and was known only as "Adolphe Lafargue." While he was teaching school in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]], he wed the former Zepherine Michel Zorich, a member of an influential family from the Rachal community. They had a daughter and two sons, Adolphe and Arnaud, both of whom became members of the Louisiana House of Representatives. The senior Lafargue subsequently became a professor of [[French]] and [[mathematics]] at the former Jefferson College in Convent in St. James Parish, Louisiana and then at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]], known then as the "University of Louisiana." He subsequently settled in Marksville and became superintendent of public instruction for Avoyelles Parish. In 1856, he founded Marksville High School. He was also a [[mayor]] of Marksville.<ref name=familyhistory>{{cite web|url=http://larc.tulane.edu/help/guides/LaFargue|title=Brief Family History|publisher=larc.tulane.edu|accessdate=February 19, 2015}}</ref> The senior Lafargue started the newspaper then named ''The Pelican'' and later ''The Marksville Villager.''<ref name=doctors>{{cite web|url=http://library.mcneese.edu/depts/archive/FTBooks/reid%20doctors.htm|title=Early Calcasieu Doctors|publisher=mcneese.edu|accessdate=February 17, 2011}}</ref>
==Career==
Adolphe Jolna Lafargue was educated at the former Jefferson College and then studied law at what became Tulane University. He returned to Marksville in 1880 to publish and edit ''The Marksville Bulletin'',<ref name=familyhistory/> later ''The Marksville Weekly News,'' the name still in use. The publication is the oldest continuously operating newspaper in Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.angelfire.com/la/avoyelles/|title=Newspapers of Avoyelles|publisher=angelfire.com|accessdate=February 17, 2011}}</ref> In 1878, Adolphe Lafargue married Annie Winn Irion (1860-1890), the daughter of [[U. S. Representative]] Alfred Briggs Irion (1833-1903) of Louisiana's 6th congressional district, which then stretched northward into Avoyelles Parish. Representative Irion was originally from [[rural]] Evergreen in Avoyelles Parish, where he had farming interests. Lafargue and his wife had four sons, Walter Strong (1878-1951), Edwin Louis (1881-1922), [[Alvan Lafargue|Alvan Henry, Sr.]], and Sidney Eustis (1885-1942). After Annie died, Adolphe married her sister, Emma (1870-1961), who died in New Orleans at the age of ninety. She was only eight years older than stepson Walter Strong Lafargue.<ref name=findagrave/>
In 1884, [[Governor]] Samuel D. McEnery (1837-1910) named Lafargue the Avoyelles Parish assessor. In 1886, Lafargue was appointed clerk of court. Both positions are now elected.<ref name=familyhistory/> Considered an excellent [[orator]], Adolphe Lafargue was elected to the Louisiana House in 1892.<ref name=house>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Avoyelles Parish|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref> In 1899, near the end of his second legislative term, Governor Murphy James Foster, Sr., (1849-1921) named him to fill an unexpired term as [[judge]] of the state 10th Judicial District. In 1912, he was elected judge of the 14th District, a position that he held until shortly before his death.<ref name=findagrave/><ref name=familyhistory/>
==Family==
Lafargue's brother, Arnaud D. Lafargue, served in the Louisiana House from 1916 to 1917. The brothers died the same year. Arnaud Lafargue was succeeded in the House by Willam A. Morrow, who eighteen years earlier had succeeded Adolphe Lafargue in the same position.<ref name=house/>
Oldest son Walter Lafargue of Thibodaux in Lafourche Parish,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lafargue&GSfn=Walter&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=91541057&df=all&|title=Walter Strong Lafargue|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref> was first the assistant principal of Thibodaux College and thereafter the long-term superintendent of schools in Lafourche Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.louisianacajun.com/msg/louisiana-cajun-forum-message-show.asp?id=24789&fid=202&tid=0|title=Genealogy search for Lafargues|publisher=louisianacajun.com|accessdate=February 18, 2011}}</ref> Third son [[Alvan Lafargue]] was a physician for fifty years and from 1926 to 1938 the three-term mayor of Sulphur in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana. He had been one of the first settlers of Sulphur and founded a hospital and a bi-parish fair there.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-l/|title=Lafargue, Alvan Henry|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' (Louisiana Historical Association)|accessdate=July 30, 2020</ref> A Lafargue grandson, Malcolm Lafargue (1908-1963), son of Edwin Louis Lafargue, was from 1941 to 1950 the United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, based in [[Shreveport]]. He resigned to run unsuccessfully for the [[United State Senate]] against his fellow Democrat [[Russell Long]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103311402|title=M. E. Lafargue, Former District Attorney, Dies – Succumbs in Sleep Here at Age 54; Services Saturday|publisher=''[[Shreveport Journal]]''|date=March 28, 1963|pages=1-A, 4-A|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref>
Lafargue is interred at Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum No. 1 in Marksville.<ref name=findagrave/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lafargue, Adolphe}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:France]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Newspaper publishers]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Catholics]]
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]
[[Category:Judges]]
[[Category:Democrats]]