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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=George Washington Bolton
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| office=[[Louisiana State Representative<for> Rapides Parish]]
| term_start=1888
| term_end=1896
| preceded==At-large:<br>
Julius F. Ariel<br>
B. F. Lyons
| office2=[[Speaker]] of the Louisiana House of Representatives
| term_start2 = 1892
| term_end2 = 1896
| preceded2 = S. P. Henry
| succeeded2 =S. P. Henry
| birth_date=September 15, 1841
| birth_place=DeKalb County, [[Georgia]]
| death_date=August 2, 1931 (aged 89)
| death_place=[[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]<br>Rapides Parish, Louisiana
| resting_place=Mt. Olivet Cemetery in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], Louisiana
| residence=Alexandria, Louisiana
| occupation=[[Business]]man, [[Banker]], [[Politician]]
| alma_mater=His father's private school
| spouse=Tennessee Wade Bolton (married 1868 - July 2, 1931, her death)
| children==Ten children, including<br>
[[James W. Bolton]]<br>
Roscoe Conkling Bolton
| relations=Grandsons, including:<br>
[[James W. Bolton|James Calderwood Bolton]]<br>
[[Robert H. Bolton]]<br>
[[Al Bolton]]<br>
Roscoe A. Bolton
| parents=Elisha P. and Eliza Burbridge Bolton
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| allegiance=[[Confederate States of America}}
| branch=Confederate Army
| rank=[[Sergeant]]
| serviceyears=1861-1865}}
'''George Washington Bolton''' (September 15, 1841 – August 2, 1931)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bolton&GSfn=George+&GSmn=Washington&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=28447733&df=all&|title=George Washington Bolton|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=November 30, 2020}}</ref> was a banker, merchant, [[politician]], [[Southern Baptist]] layman, and the patriarch of an influential family in his adopted city of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [[Louisiana]].
==Background==
A son of Elisha P. Bolton and the former Eliza Burbridge, Bolton was born in DeKalb County, [[Georgia]], in what became part of the [[Atlanta]] metropolitan area. When he was sixteen, the family relocated to the Shiloh community in Union Parish, north of [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], Louisiana. Bolton was educated in his father's private school. In 1861, Bolton enlisted in the [[Confederate States of America]] Army, in which he attained the rank of sergeant in Company E of the 12th Louisiana Infantry. He served throughout the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=gwb>{{cite web|url=http://lahistory.org/site19.php|title=Bolton, George Washington|publisher=[[Louisiana Historical Association]]: ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography''|accessdate=April 9, 2014}}</ref><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' based part of the information on the Bolton sketch from Alcée Fortier, ''Louisiana'', III (1914).</ref>
After the war, Bolton taught school for a year in Union Parish but soon pursued the mercantile business, first in Winnfield. In 1868, he married Tennessee Wade (1850-1931), a native [[Arkansas|Arkansan]] and the daughter of his business partner, Dr. A. Wade. The couple had ten children, at least three of whom died in early childhood: [[James W. Bolton|James W.]], George G., Frank P., James Porter, Roscoe Conkling, Bertha Bolton Hall (1889-1944), Ida Ruth Bolton Roach (1876-1906), Lotta T. (1874-1876), Albert (1881-1882), and George W., Jr. (1885-1889)<ref name=gwb/><ref name=olivet/>
==Diversified career==
In 1869, Bolton moved the business to [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]] on the eastern side of the Red River across from the larger Alexandria, the seat of government of Rapides Parish. The business in Pineville closed in 1900.<ref name=gwb/>
Active in political and civic affairs, Bolton was a delegate to state constitutional conventions in 1879 and 1898. In 1888, he was elected as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to the first of two terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives. The [[governor]] at the time was Democrat Francis T. Nicholls. In Bolton's second term under Governor Murph James Foster, Sr., he was elected as House [[Speaker]].<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812- 2016|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=November 30, 2020}}</ref>
In 1888, Bolton organized the Rapides Bank and Trust Company, since merged into Bank One Corporation. His son James Wade Bolton and grandsons [[James C. Bolton| James Calderwood Bolton and [[Robert H. Bolton]] continued to run the bank throughout the twentieth century. He stepped down as the bank president in 1912 but remained chairman of the board until his death nineteen years later. In 1900, he was elected the first president of the newly organized Louisiana Bankers Association. He was a member of the executive council of the American Bankers Association.<ref name=gwb/>
He was a member of the elected Rapides Parish School Board and a delegate the 1904 [[Democratic National Convention]], which nominated Judge Alton B. Parker of [[New York]] to carry the party's unsuccessful banner against the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. President]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]]. He was the president of the company that built the former bridge over the Red River at Murray Street in Alexandria.<ref name=gwb/>
Bolton was the first president of the executive board of the Alexandria-based Louisiana Baptist Convention and an organizer of the large Emmanuel Baptist Church in downtown Alexandria. His family in subsequent generations continued to support Emmanuel Church. He was an officer of the Masonic lodge. Bolton Avenue, a major thoroughfare west of downtown Alexandria, is named in his honor.<ref name=gwb/>
Upon his death some six weeks before his ninetieth birthday, Bolton was interred beside his wife at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Pineville. She had died only twenty-three days prior to his passing.l
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bolton, George Washington}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Georgia]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:American Civil War]]
| name=George Washington Bolton
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| office=[[Louisiana State Representative<for> Rapides Parish]]
| term_start=1888
| term_end=1896
| preceded==At-large:<br>
Julius F. Ariel<br>
B. F. Lyons
| office2=[[Speaker]] of the Louisiana House of Representatives
| term_start2 = 1892
| term_end2 = 1896
| preceded2 = S. P. Henry
| succeeded2 =S. P. Henry
| birth_date=September 15, 1841
| birth_place=DeKalb County, [[Georgia]]
| death_date=August 2, 1931 (aged 89)
| death_place=[[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]<br>Rapides Parish, Louisiana
| resting_place=Mt. Olivet Cemetery in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], Louisiana
| residence=Alexandria, Louisiana
| occupation=[[Business]]man, [[Banker]], [[Politician]]
| alma_mater=His father's private school
| spouse=Tennessee Wade Bolton (married 1868 - July 2, 1931, her death)
| children==Ten children, including<br>
[[James W. Bolton]]<br>
Roscoe Conkling Bolton
| relations=Grandsons, including:<br>
[[James W. Bolton|James Calderwood Bolton]]<br>
[[Robert H. Bolton]]<br>
[[Al Bolton]]<br>
Roscoe A. Bolton
| parents=Elisha P. and Eliza Burbridge Bolton
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| allegiance=[[Confederate States of America}}
| branch=Confederate Army
| rank=[[Sergeant]]
| serviceyears=1861-1865}}
'''George Washington Bolton''' (September 15, 1841 – August 2, 1931)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bolton&GSfn=George+&GSmn=Washington&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=28447733&df=all&|title=George Washington Bolton|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=November 30, 2020}}</ref> was a banker, merchant, [[politician]], [[Southern Baptist]] layman, and the patriarch of an influential family in his adopted city of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [[Louisiana]].
==Background==
A son of Elisha P. Bolton and the former Eliza Burbridge, Bolton was born in DeKalb County, [[Georgia]], in what became part of the [[Atlanta]] metropolitan area. When he was sixteen, the family relocated to the Shiloh community in Union Parish, north of [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], Louisiana. Bolton was educated in his father's private school. In 1861, Bolton enlisted in the [[Confederate States of America]] Army, in which he attained the rank of sergeant in Company E of the 12th Louisiana Infantry. He served throughout the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=gwb>{{cite web|url=http://lahistory.org/site19.php|title=Bolton, George Washington|publisher=[[Louisiana Historical Association]]: ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography''|accessdate=April 9, 2014}}</ref><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' based part of the information on the Bolton sketch from Alcée Fortier, ''Louisiana'', III (1914).</ref>
After the war, Bolton taught school for a year in Union Parish but soon pursued the mercantile business, first in Winnfield. In 1868, he married Tennessee Wade (1850-1931), a native [[Arkansas|Arkansan]] and the daughter of his business partner, Dr. A. Wade. The couple had ten children, at least three of whom died in early childhood: [[James W. Bolton|James W.]], George G., Frank P., James Porter, Roscoe Conkling, Bertha Bolton Hall (1889-1944), Ida Ruth Bolton Roach (1876-1906), Lotta T. (1874-1876), Albert (1881-1882), and George W., Jr. (1885-1889)<ref name=gwb/><ref name=olivet/>
==Diversified career==
In 1869, Bolton moved the business to [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]] on the eastern side of the Red River across from the larger Alexandria, the seat of government of Rapides Parish. The business in Pineville closed in 1900.<ref name=gwb/>
Active in political and civic affairs, Bolton was a delegate to state constitutional conventions in 1879 and 1898. In 1888, he was elected as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to the first of two terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives. The [[governor]] at the time was Democrat Francis T. Nicholls. In Bolton's second term under Governor Murph James Foster, Sr., he was elected as House [[Speaker]].<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812- 2016|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=November 30, 2020}}</ref>
In 1888, Bolton organized the Rapides Bank and Trust Company, since merged into Bank One Corporation. His son James Wade Bolton and grandsons [[James C. Bolton| James Calderwood Bolton and [[Robert H. Bolton]] continued to run the bank throughout the twentieth century. He stepped down as the bank president in 1912 but remained chairman of the board until his death nineteen years later. In 1900, he was elected the first president of the newly organized Louisiana Bankers Association. He was a member of the executive council of the American Bankers Association.<ref name=gwb/>
He was a member of the elected Rapides Parish School Board and a delegate the 1904 [[Democratic National Convention]], which nominated Judge Alton B. Parker of [[New York]] to carry the party's unsuccessful banner against the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. President]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]]. He was the president of the company that built the former bridge over the Red River at Murray Street in Alexandria.<ref name=gwb/>
Bolton was the first president of the executive board of the Alexandria-based Louisiana Baptist Convention and an organizer of the large Emmanuel Baptist Church in downtown Alexandria. His family in subsequent generations continued to support Emmanuel Church. He was an officer of the Masonic lodge. Bolton Avenue, a major thoroughfare west of downtown Alexandria, is named in his honor.<ref name=gwb/>
Upon his death some six weeks before his ninetieth birthday, Bolton was interred beside his wife at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Pineville. She had died only twenty-three days prior to his passing.l
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bolton, George Washington}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Georgia]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:American Civil War]]