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==Career==

==Career==

A [[Tennessee]] native, county unavailable.<ref name=searchancestry/> Sudduth was the city finance director<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3nlBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=James+Sudduth+of+Lake+Charles&source=bl&ots=NVr1NZmD9c&sig=PMjctMjJsQoi-q9OBYEsDtmkhyw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8qWeVbqnGYmsogSnkrO4Bg&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCTgU#v=onepage&q=James%20Sudduth%20of%20Lake%20Charles&f=false|title=Lake Charles|author=Jessica Hutchings|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]|date=2015|page=36|isbn=978-1-4671-1328-1|accessdate=August 30, 2020}}</ref> and from 1965 to 1973 the mayor of Lake Charles. He stepped down with a year remaining in his term to take the director's position at the Port of Lake Charles. He was succeeded by council member William Edwin "Bill" Boyer (c. 1931-1999), a stepson of former [[Governor]] [[Sam Houston Jones]] and brother of [[Robert G. Jones]], a former member of both houses of the Louisiana state legislature.<ref>William E. Boyer obituary, ''The Lake Charles American Press,'' September 9, 2020}}<ref>

A [[Tennessee]] native, county unavailable.<ref name=searchancestry/> Sudduth was the city finance director<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3nlBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=James+Sudduth+of+Lake+Charles&source=bl&ots=NVr1NZmD9c&sig=PMjctMjJsQoi-q9OBYEsDtmkhyw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8qWeVbqnGYmsogSnkrO4Bg&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCTgU#v=onepage&q=James%20Sudduth%20of%20Lake%20Charles&f=false|title=Lake Charles|author=Jessica Hutchings|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]|date=2015|page=36|isbn=978-1-4671-1328-1|accessdate=August 30, 2020}}</ref> and from 1965 to 1973 the mayor of Lake Charles. He stepped down with a year remaining in his term to take the director's position at the Port of Lake Charles. He was succeeded by council member William Edwin "Bill" Boyer (c. 1931-1999), a stepson of former [[Governor]] [[Sam Houston Jones]] and brother of [[Robert G. Jones]], a former member of both houses of the Louisiana state legislature.<ref>William E. Boyer obituary, ''The Lake Charles American Press,'' September 9, 2020}}</ref>

In his second year as mayor in 1966, Sudduth was quizzed by Joseph B. Flanagan, a city council member regarding the existence of the city sewerage board. Flanagan questioned the extension of sewerage services outside the city limits when Sudduth authorized a convenience store on West McNeese Street to use the city main with payment for the attachment and thereafter an annual fee. Flanagan claimed that the sewerage board should have been consulted, but Sudduth countered that the board was no longer valid under a revised municipal charter. At any rate, the attachment cost the city nothing, Sudduth stressed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2081775/|title=Mayor sees no need for sewerage board|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=May 13, 1966|page=3|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> In 1967, the city council directed Sudduth to consider the purchase of used buses for the city's ten-vehicle fleet at a cost of as much as $26,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/7896316/|title=Council to face fifteen items at meet|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|date=March 10, 1967|page=21|accessdate=July 9, 2015}}</ref> That same year, Sudduth was asked why Lake Charles then had no [[African-American]] firefighters though it had some black police officers. He replied that while he had encouraged blacks to take the civil service exam, none had yet passed the screening.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/7896510/|title=The Informer|page=1|date=March 11, 1967|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref>

In his second year as mayor in 1966, Sudduth was quizzed by Joseph B. Flanagan, a city council member regarding the existence of the city sewerage board. Flanagan questioned the extension of sewerage services outside the city limits when Sudduth authorized a convenience store on West McNeese Street to use the city main with payment for the attachment and thereafter an annual fee. Flanagan claimed that the sewerage board should have been consulted, but Sudduth countered that the board was no longer valid under a revised municipal charter. At any rate, the attachment cost the city nothing, Sudduth stressed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2081775/|title=Mayor sees no need for sewerage board|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=May 13, 1966|page=3|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> In 1967, the city council directed Sudduth to consider the purchase of used buses for the city's ten-vehicle fleet at a cost of as much as $26,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/7896316/|title=Council to face fifteen items at meet|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|date=March 10, 1967|page=21|accessdate=July 9, 2015}}</ref> That same year, Sudduth was asked why Lake Charles then had no [[African-American]] firefighters though it had some black police officers. He replied that while he had encouraged blacks to take the civil service exam, none had yet passed the screening.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/7896510/|title=The Informer|page=1|date=March 11, 1967|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref>