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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Dayton Hollis Waller, Jr.
|image=Dayton Waller of LA.jpg
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative of Caddo Parish
|term_start=1968
|term_end=1972
|preceded=At-large delegation:<br>
[[Algie D. Brown]]<br>
[[Frank Fulco]]<br>
[[Morley Hudson]]<br>
Taylor Walters O'Hearn
[[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]]
|succeeded=Single-member district
|birth_date=April 2, 1925
|birth_place=[[Shreveport]], Louisiana
|death_date=May 26, 2015 (aged 90)
|death_place=Shreveport, Louisiana
|death_cause=
|resting_place=Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport
|spouse=Fern Reynolds Waller (married 1947-2013, her death)
|children=Dayton H. Waller, III<br>
Elizabeth "Sissy" Waller Johnson<br>
Elaine Waller Moreau<br>
Kathryn Waller Long <br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Dayton, Sr., and Elisabeth Lane Waller
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
|occupation=[[Farmer]]<br>[[Business]]man
|alma_mater=Centenary College of Louisiana
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|rank=Military policeman
|battles=[[World War II]]
}}
'''Dayton Hollis Waller, Jr.''' (April 2, 1925 – May 26, 2015), was a [[farmer]] and [[business]]man from [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], who was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative who served a single term with six other at-large members from 1968 until 1972.<ref name=house>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 27, 2013}}</ref>
==Family history==
Waller was born in Shreveport to Dayton Waller, Sr. (1895-1988), a native of Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish, and his wife, the former Elisabeth Lane (1902-1946),<ref name=findgrave>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8739719|title=Dayton Hollis Waller, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 12, 2020}}</ref> the fourth of five children of Shreveport industrialist Charles W. Lane, Sr., and the former Addie Noel. Charles Lane, the grandfather of Dayton Waller, Jr., was orphaned at thirteen. Self-educated, he became the owner of the Giddens-Lane Company, a bank director, an appointee of the Caddo Levee Board, and later established the Charles W. Lane Company.<ref>[[Henry E. Chambers]], ''A History of Louisiana'', Vo1. 2, Chicago and New York, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925, pp. 35-36.</ref> The Lane Company is engaged in the management of commercial real estate development, agricultural lands, and [[petroleum]] and [[natural gas]] holdings. For years the firm was managed by E. Alton Sartor, Jr., another grandson of Charles W. Lane and hence a cousin of Dayton Waller, Jr. Sartor's wife, [[Jean Oliver Sartor]], was an artist in Shreveport.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=e-alton-sartor&pid=161140177#fbLoggedOut|title=E. Alton Sartor, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 27, 2013}}</ref>
Dayton Waller, Sr., the son of Shadrack Columbus Waller (1860-1932) and the former Mary L. Dawson (1865-1941), was a director of the C. W. Lane Company. The senior Waller was a [[United States Navy]] veteran of [[World War I]], a Shriner and a member of the American Legion and the First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church of Shreveport. After the death of his first wife, Elisabeth, he married the former Blanche Hagan (died 1989), a native of Dry Prong in Grant Parish, by whom he had a second son, the half-brother of Dayton Waller, Jr. Dayton, Sr., Elisabeth, and Blanche Waller are interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=findgrave/>
==Background==
Waller left [[Clifton Ellis Byrd]] High School in his senior year to enlist in the [[United States Army]], in which he was a military policeman. Upon his return to civilian life, he received his high school diploma.<ref name=obit/> In 1947, he graduated from [[Methodist]]-affiliated Centenary College in Shreveport.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/Centenary_College_of_Louisiana_Yoncopin_Yearbook/1947/Page_49.html|title=Yoncopin Yearbook (Class of 1947), p. 49|publisher=e-yearbook.com|accessdate=August 11, 2013}}</ref> At six feet, six inches in height and affectionately known as "Treetop," Waller played [[basketball]] for the Centenary Gentlemen. He was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order.<ref name=obit/>
Waller was a member of the board of the C. W. Lane and the Giddens-Lane companies. He owned and operated a crop dusting firm, the Dixie Dusting Company. He raised cattle, corn, and cotton on Halifax Plantation in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]]. He served on the board of the former Pioneer Bank and Trust Company in Shreveport, which closed in 1994. When he retired from farming, he opened the Evangeline Restaurant in Shreveport.<ref name=obit/>
He was affiliated with many community organizations, such as the Shreveport, the Cotillion and Plantation clubs, and the Ark-La-Tex Gun Collector's Association. He was a member of the [[National Rifle Association]], the National World War II Museum, the American Legion, and the Forty and Eight veteran's organization.
<ref name=obit/>
==Political career==
Waller ran successfully for the state House of Representatives in the 1967-1968 election cycle, when Democrats swept the Caddo Parish offices. He served in the House during the second administration of [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]]. Voted out was the [[Republican Party|Republican]] state Representative Taylor Walters O'Hearn (1907-1997) of Shreveport, who had served the preceding four-year term from 1964 to 1968. A second Republican representative [[Morley Hudson]] did not seek a second term in 1968. When Waller left the House in 1972, two other Republicans were elected in single-member districts in Caddo Parish, [[B. F. O'Neal, Jr.]], and Arthur William "Art" Sour (1924-2000).<ref name=house/>
Waller was a member of the Caddo Parish Levee Board under Governors [[Jimmie Davis]], John McKeithen, and [[Dave Treen|David C. Treen]].<ref name=obit/>
==Personal life==
In 1947, Waller married the former Fern Reynolds (1925-2013), a native of Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish and the daughter of Wendell E. and Flossie P. Reynolds. Like her husband, Fern Waller was a graduate of Byrd High School and Centenary College, from which she majored in fashion apparel and marketing. Mrs. Waller and her friend, Marilee Harter, owned a Shreveport apparel store, Hart-Wall I & II, later Fern Waller's, Inc. She developed menus for her husband's former restaurant,<ref name=fernwallerobit/> "The Evangeline".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wysk.com/index/louisiana/shreveport/l7puwh3/evangeline-restaurant-inc/profile|title=Wysk Company Profile for Evangeline Restaurant, Inc.|publisher=wysk.com|accessdate=December 27, 2013}}</ref>
The Wallers donated the bridal suite of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport in appreciation to [[God]] for their four children, Dayton H. Waller, III (wife Kellye), Elizabeth "Sissy" Waller Johnson (husband Walter Fair Johnson), Elaine Waller Moreau (husband Doug), and Kathryn Waller Long (husband Donnie).<ref name=fernwallerobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=fern-reynolds-waller&pid=168728116&fhid=6593#sthash.IaJAIQO9.dpuf|title=Fern Reynolds Waller|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 27, 2013}}</ref>
Waller died at his home in Shreveport on May 26, 2015. He was 90.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=dayton-hollis-waller&pid=174942707&fhid=6593|title=Dayton Hollis Waller, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=May 27, 2015}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Waller, Dayton}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Basketball]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War II]]
|name=Dayton Hollis Waller, Jr.
|image=Dayton Waller of LA.jpg
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative of Caddo Parish
|term_start=1968
|term_end=1972
|preceded=At-large delegation:<br>
[[Algie D. Brown]]<br>
[[Frank Fulco]]<br>
[[Morley Hudson]]<br>
Taylor Walters O'Hearn
[[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]]
|succeeded=Single-member district
|birth_date=April 2, 1925
|birth_place=[[Shreveport]], Louisiana
|death_date=May 26, 2015 (aged 90)
|death_place=Shreveport, Louisiana
|death_cause=
|resting_place=Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport
|spouse=Fern Reynolds Waller (married 1947-2013, her death)
|children=Dayton H. Waller, III<br>
Elizabeth "Sissy" Waller Johnson<br>
Elaine Waller Moreau<br>
Kathryn Waller Long <br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Dayton, Sr., and Elisabeth Lane Waller
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
|occupation=[[Farmer]]<br>[[Business]]man
|alma_mater=Centenary College of Louisiana
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|rank=Military policeman
|battles=[[World War II]]
}}
'''Dayton Hollis Waller, Jr.''' (April 2, 1925 – May 26, 2015), was a [[farmer]] and [[business]]man from [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], who was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative who served a single term with six other at-large members from 1968 until 1972.<ref name=house>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 27, 2013}}</ref>
==Family history==
Waller was born in Shreveport to Dayton Waller, Sr. (1895-1988), a native of Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish, and his wife, the former Elisabeth Lane (1902-1946),<ref name=findgrave>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8739719|title=Dayton Hollis Waller, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 12, 2020}}</ref> the fourth of five children of Shreveport industrialist Charles W. Lane, Sr., and the former Addie Noel. Charles Lane, the grandfather of Dayton Waller, Jr., was orphaned at thirteen. Self-educated, he became the owner of the Giddens-Lane Company, a bank director, an appointee of the Caddo Levee Board, and later established the Charles W. Lane Company.<ref>[[Henry E. Chambers]], ''A History of Louisiana'', Vo1. 2, Chicago and New York, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925, pp. 35-36.</ref> The Lane Company is engaged in the management of commercial real estate development, agricultural lands, and [[petroleum]] and [[natural gas]] holdings. For years the firm was managed by E. Alton Sartor, Jr., another grandson of Charles W. Lane and hence a cousin of Dayton Waller, Jr. Sartor's wife, [[Jean Oliver Sartor]], was an artist in Shreveport.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=e-alton-sartor&pid=161140177#fbLoggedOut|title=E. Alton Sartor, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 27, 2013}}</ref>
Dayton Waller, Sr., the son of Shadrack Columbus Waller (1860-1932) and the former Mary L. Dawson (1865-1941), was a director of the C. W. Lane Company. The senior Waller was a [[United States Navy]] veteran of [[World War I]], a Shriner and a member of the American Legion and the First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church of Shreveport. After the death of his first wife, Elisabeth, he married the former Blanche Hagan (died 1989), a native of Dry Prong in Grant Parish, by whom he had a second son, the half-brother of Dayton Waller, Jr. Dayton, Sr., Elisabeth, and Blanche Waller are interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=findgrave/>
==Background==
Waller left [[Clifton Ellis Byrd]] High School in his senior year to enlist in the [[United States Army]], in which he was a military policeman. Upon his return to civilian life, he received his high school diploma.<ref name=obit/> In 1947, he graduated from [[Methodist]]-affiliated Centenary College in Shreveport.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/Centenary_College_of_Louisiana_Yoncopin_Yearbook/1947/Page_49.html|title=Yoncopin Yearbook (Class of 1947), p. 49|publisher=e-yearbook.com|accessdate=August 11, 2013}}</ref> At six feet, six inches in height and affectionately known as "Treetop," Waller played [[basketball]] for the Centenary Gentlemen. He was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order.<ref name=obit/>
Waller was a member of the board of the C. W. Lane and the Giddens-Lane companies. He owned and operated a crop dusting firm, the Dixie Dusting Company. He raised cattle, corn, and cotton on Halifax Plantation in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]]. He served on the board of the former Pioneer Bank and Trust Company in Shreveport, which closed in 1994. When he retired from farming, he opened the Evangeline Restaurant in Shreveport.<ref name=obit/>
He was affiliated with many community organizations, such as the Shreveport, the Cotillion and Plantation clubs, and the Ark-La-Tex Gun Collector's Association. He was a member of the [[National Rifle Association]], the National World War II Museum, the American Legion, and the Forty and Eight veteran's organization.
<ref name=obit/>
==Political career==
Waller ran successfully for the state House of Representatives in the 1967-1968 election cycle, when Democrats swept the Caddo Parish offices. He served in the House during the second administration of [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]]. Voted out was the [[Republican Party|Republican]] state Representative Taylor Walters O'Hearn (1907-1997) of Shreveport, who had served the preceding four-year term from 1964 to 1968. A second Republican representative [[Morley Hudson]] did not seek a second term in 1968. When Waller left the House in 1972, two other Republicans were elected in single-member districts in Caddo Parish, [[B. F. O'Neal, Jr.]], and Arthur William "Art" Sour (1924-2000).<ref name=house/>
Waller was a member of the Caddo Parish Levee Board under Governors [[Jimmie Davis]], John McKeithen, and [[Dave Treen|David C. Treen]].<ref name=obit/>
==Personal life==
In 1947, Waller married the former Fern Reynolds (1925-2013), a native of Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish and the daughter of Wendell E. and Flossie P. Reynolds. Like her husband, Fern Waller was a graduate of Byrd High School and Centenary College, from which she majored in fashion apparel and marketing. Mrs. Waller and her friend, Marilee Harter, owned a Shreveport apparel store, Hart-Wall I & II, later Fern Waller's, Inc. She developed menus for her husband's former restaurant,<ref name=fernwallerobit/> "The Evangeline".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wysk.com/index/louisiana/shreveport/l7puwh3/evangeline-restaurant-inc/profile|title=Wysk Company Profile for Evangeline Restaurant, Inc.|publisher=wysk.com|accessdate=December 27, 2013}}</ref>
The Wallers donated the bridal suite of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport in appreciation to [[God]] for their four children, Dayton H. Waller, III (wife Kellye), Elizabeth "Sissy" Waller Johnson (husband Walter Fair Johnson), Elaine Waller Moreau (husband Doug), and Kathryn Waller Long (husband Donnie).<ref name=fernwallerobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=fern-reynolds-waller&pid=168728116&fhid=6593#sthash.IaJAIQO9.dpuf|title=Fern Reynolds Waller|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 27, 2013}}</ref>
Waller died at his home in Shreveport on May 26, 2015. He was 90.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=dayton-hollis-waller&pid=174942707&fhid=6593|title=Dayton Hollis Waller, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=May 27, 2015}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Waller, Dayton}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Basketball]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War II]]