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| − | Patton was born in the village of Lisbon in Claiborne Parish in northwestern Louisiana.<ref name="LAbio">[http://www.lahistory.org/site33.php "John Sparks Patton"], ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 2, Louisiana Historical Association, 1988, p. | + | Patton was born in the village of Lisbon in Claiborne Parish in northwestern Louisiana.<ref name="LAbio">[http://www.lahistory.org/site33.php "John Sparks Patton"], ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 2, Louisiana Historical Association, 1988, p. 635.</ref> |
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| − | He married Agnes McCasland (1896–1983). They had two sons together: John Patton, Jr. (1924–1958) became a lieutenant in the [[United States Navy]] and served in both [[World War II]] and the [[Korean War]]. Olen T. Patton (1926–1943) was killed in action in World War II. <ref>Arlington Cemetery records, | + | He married Agnes McCasland (1896–1983). They had two sons together: John Patton, Jr. (1924–1958) became a lieutenant in the [[United States Navy]] and served in both [[World War II]] and the [[Korean War]]. Olen T. Patton (1926–1943) was killed in action in World War II. <ref>Arlington Cemetery records, Homer, Louisiana]/ref> They also had two daughters together: Annette Patton Ward (1923–1998)and Minion Patton Lasater. |
==Political career== | ==Political career== | ||
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John Sparks Patton, Sr. (September 23, 1894 – October 30, 1961), was a Louisiana politician and educator who was an early advocate of taxpayer-funded school textbooks and a member of the Long faction of his state's then dominant Democratic Party.
==Background==
Patton was born in the village of Lisbon in Claiborne Parish in northwestern Louisiana.[1]
He married Agnes McCasland (1896–1983). They had two sons together: John Patton, Jr. (1924–1958) became a lieutenant in the United States Navy and served in both World War II and the Korean War. Olen T. Patton (1926–1943) was killed in action in World War II. Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag As governor, Long implemented Patton's textbooks proposal.
Patton ran for state education superintendent in 1928 on the intraparty ticket with Huey Pierce Long, Jr., but lost to T. H. Harris. He ran again in 1932 as an Independent but was defeated.[1]
In 1938, Patton was elected to the Third District seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission, but in 1942, he was unseated by Jimmie Davis, then of Shreveport,[1] Davis used the position as a stepping stone, serving two years on the PSC, a utility rate regulatory body, before being elected governor of Louisiana in 1944 and again in 1960.
Patton returned to Homer, the seat of Claiborne Parish, to resume his career as a school administrator. In 1950, Governor Earl Kemp Long in his second elected term appointed Patton as superintendent of the Louisiana School for the Deaf, located in the capital.[2] Patton served there until 1961, dying in office.[1]
Patton died in Baton Rouge and is interred at Arlington Cemetery in Homer.
==References==
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "John Sparks Patton", A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. 2, Louisiana Historical Association, 1988, p. 635.
- ↑ Gannon, Jack. Deaf Heritage–A Narrative History of Deaf America, Silver Spring, MD: National Association of the Deaf, 1981, pp. 29-30 (PDF)
==Further reading==
- T. Harry Williams, Huey Long (1969)
- Louisiana Schools, XXXIX (March 1962), publication of Louisiana Teachers Association