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Connell Fort was a deputy in the second term of Webster Parish [[Sheriff]] Daniel Webster Pratt from 1896 to 1900.<ref>List of Sheriffs of Webster Parish, ''Webster Parish Centennial Booklet, 1971'', Webster Parish Police Jury publication.</ref> From 1900 to 1908, Fort, a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], was a member of the Minden City Council, on which he pushed for the establishment of concrete sidewalks.<ref name=fortdeath/> In 1917, while Fort was still on the citiy council, E. L. Stewart, a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Webster Parish, Stewart's fellow attorney and brother, Daniel Webster Stewart Sr. (1857–1935), and Alberta Glass (1834-1937), a former [[Confederate]] Army soldier,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Glass&GSfn=Alberta&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=15088401&df=all&|title=Alberta Glass|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 13, 2015}}</ref> were sued by the Town of Minden for non-payment of the expense for the mandatory construction of sidewalks abutting their properties, based on a 1902 state law, which the plaintiffs challenged unsuccessfully on double appeal to the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit in Shreveport ant the Louisiana Supreme Court in [[New Orleans]]. The three did not request the sidewalks and sought to shield themselves from the associated costs.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPpMqyLOd74C&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=E.+L.+Stewart+of+Minden&source=bl&ots=2x4-t4jOLJ&sig=8VPLP4PLvENu27u4wgsHWzVJ6pI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GzADVeCHGcW-ggS2iIHYBw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=E.%20L.%20Stewart%20of%20Minden&f=false|publisher=Southern Reporter, Vol. 77|pages=118–121|title=Town of Minden v. Stewart et al|date=November 26, 1917|accessdate=March 13, 2015}}</ref>

Connell Fort was a deputy in the second term of Webster Parish [[Sheriff]] Daniel Webster Pratt from 1896 to 1900.<ref>List of Sheriffs of Webster Parish, ''Webster Parish Centennial Booklet, 1971'', Webster Parish Police Jury publication.</ref> From 1900 to 1908, Fort, a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], was a member of the Minden City Council, on which he pushed for the establishment of concrete sidewalks.<ref name=fortdeath/> In 1917, while Fort was still on the citiy council, [[E. L. Stewart]], a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Webster Parish, Stewart's fellow attorney and brother, Daniel Webster Stewart Sr. (1857–1935), and Alberta Glass (1834-1937), a former [[Confederate]] Army soldier,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Glass&GSfn=Alberta&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=15088401&df=all&|title=Alberta Glass|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 13, 2015}}</ref> were sued by the Town of Minden for non-payment of the expense for the mandatory construction of sidewalks abutting their properties, based on a 1902 state law, which the plaintiffs challenged unsuccessfully on double appeal to the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit in Shreveport ant the Louisiana Supreme Court in [[New Orleans]]. The three did not request the sidewalks and sought to shield themselves from the associated costs.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPpMqyLOd74C&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=E.+L.+Stewart+of+Minden&source=bl&ots=2x4-t4jOLJ&sig=8VPLP4PLvENu27u4wgsHWzVJ6pI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GzADVeCHGcW-ggS2iIHYBw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=E.%20L.%20Stewart%20of%20Minden&f=false|publisher=Southern Reporter, Vol. 77|pages=118–121|title=Town of Minden v. Stewart et al|date=November 26, 1917|accessdate=March 13, 2015}}</ref>

In 1908, Fort and later Mayor J. Frank Colbert managed the successful gubernatorial campaign in Webster Parish of Jared Young Sanders Sr., of St. Mary Parish in south Louisiana. Governor Sanders named Fort as the conservation agent for northwestern Louisiana. Sanders left office in 1912, and Fort returned to the Minden City Council for another eight years. In 1914, Fort joined Colbert in the newspaper business in Minden. During Fort's second council stint, he pushed for the paving of the main business district of Minden.<ref name=fortdeath>"Connell Fort Dies Saturday Night at His Residence Here: Was Great Civic Worker and Builder of This City," ''The Webster Signal-Tribune'', March 5, 1937, pp. 1, 6.</ref>

In 1908, Fort and later Mayor J. Frank Colbert managed the successful gubernatorial campaign in Webster Parish of Jared Young Sanders Sr., of St. Mary Parish in south Louisiana. Governor Sanders named Fort as the conservation agent for northwestern Louisiana. Sanders left office in 1912, and Fort returned to the Minden City Council for another eight years. In 1914, Fort joined Colbert in the newspaper business in Minden. During Fort's second council stint, he pushed for the paving of the main business district of Minden.<ref name=fortdeath>"Connell Fort Dies Saturday Night at His Residence Here: Was Great Civic Worker and Builder of This City," ''The Webster Signal-Tribune'', March 5, 1937, pp. 1, 6.</ref>