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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Elton Clark Pody
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=[[Mayor]] of [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], [[Louisiana]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| term_start=January 1983
| term_end=January 1991
| preceded=John W. Perritt
| succeeded=Hilda Taylor Perritt
| birth_place=Place of birth missing
| birth_date=December 1, 1938
| death_date=March 27, 2011 (aged 72)
| death_cause=
| death_place=[[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [Louisiana
| resting_place=Mineral Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in Dubach in Lincoln Parish
| occupation= [[Business]]man
| spouse=Sherry Williamson Pody
| children=Stanton Clark "Stan" Pody<br>
Shawn A. Pody<br>
Chad Patrick Pody<br>
Sondra Pody Haygood
| residence=Ruston, Louisiana<br>
Alexandria, Louisiana
| religion=[[Presbyterian]]
| parents=Tom Henry and Fannie Mae Bearden Pody
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana Tech University]]
}}
'''Elton Clark Pody''' (December 1, 1938 – March 27, 2011) was from 1982 to 1990 the [[mayor]] of [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] in Lincoln Parish in north [[Louisiana]] and thereafter the 20-year president of the Central Louisiana [[Chamber of Commerce]] based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [[Louisiana]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=149762670|title=Elton C. Pody|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk'', March 29, 2011|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref>
Pody was the son of Tom Henry Pody (1910-2002) and the former Fannie Mae Bearden (1915-2001) of Farmerville in Union Paris].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58430943|title=Tom Henry Pody|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref> He spent the majority of his life in the Ruston/Farmerville area. He graduated from [[Louisiana Tech University]] in Ruston.<ref name=obit/> A [[Republican Party|Republican]], he was defeated on October 6, 1990 for a third term as mayor of Ruston by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Hilda Taylor Perritt, a former high school teacher. Pody polled 2,633 votes (42.2 percent) to Perritt's 3,612 (57.8 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10061990/10061990_31.html|title=Results for Election Date: 10/6/1990 (Lincoln Parish)|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref>
In a civic club address in 1989 in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in Webster Parish, Pody called for municipalities to work together and declared local government the most cost-effective: "I believe local government is very important because it provides so much service on a daily basis."<ref name=mph>Joey White, "Pody touts local government importance", ''Minden Press-Herald'', December 15, 1989, p. 1.</ref> Pody said that the average family then paid $250 annually to local government but $1,700 to the state, and $4,200 to the U.S. government; therefore he considered the local contribution to more effective on a per-capita basis.<ref name=mph/>
After his mayoral tenure ended, Pody moved to Alexandria to take the top position with the Chamber of Commerce. Shortly before his death, Pody had announced that he would retire from the chamber at the end of 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://legiscan.com/LA/text/SCR8/id/609033|title=A Concurrent Resolution: Elton C. Pody|publisher=legiscan.com|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref>
Pody often said, "Every man needs two things, [[God]] and a job", as he devoted much of his pursuits in recent decades to job creation. He attended Grace [[Presbyterian]] Church in Alexandria. To everyone he used the parting comment "Be Blessed".<ref name=obit/>
Pody died at his home in Alexandria at the age of seventy-two. Services were held at Calvary [[Southern Baptst|Baptist]] Church in Alexandria. He is interred at the Mineral Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in Dubach in Lincoln Parish.<ref name=obit/> From his marriage of nearly fifty years to the former Sherry Williamson (born 1943) of Alexandria, came three sons, Stanton Clark "Stan" Pody (born 1964) and wife Mary of Ruston, Shawn A. Pody (born 1966) and wife Kelly of Lebanon, [[Tennessee]], Chad Patrick Pody (born 1969) and wife Angie of Ruston, and one daughter, Sondra Pody Haygood (born 1970) and husband James Gregory Haygood (born 1966) of [[Wichita]], [[Kansas]]. He had a surviving sister, Lola Faye Pody Silmon (born 1932) of Downsville, Louisiana, and eleven grandchildren.<ref name=obit/>
Pody's memory is honored by the Louisiana State University at Alexandria Foundation through the "Elton C. Pody Scholarship Fund".<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pody, Elton C.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Mayors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Presbyterians]]
{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Elton Clark Pody
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=[[Mayor]] of [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], [[Louisiana]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| term_start=January 1983
| term_end=January 1991
| preceded=John W. Perritt
| succeeded=Hilda Taylor Perritt
| birth_place=Place of birth missing
| birth_date=December 1, 1938
| death_date=March 27, 2011 (aged 72)
| death_cause=
| death_place=[[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [Louisiana
| resting_place=Mineral Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in Dubach in Lincoln Parish
| occupation= [[Business]]man
| spouse=Sherry Williamson Pody
| children=Stanton Clark "Stan" Pody<br>
Shawn A. Pody<br>
Chad Patrick Pody<br>
Sondra Pody Haygood
| residence=Ruston, Louisiana<br>
Alexandria, Louisiana
| religion=[[Presbyterian]]
| parents=Tom Henry and Fannie Mae Bearden Pody
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana Tech University]]
}}
'''Elton Clark Pody''' (December 1, 1938 – March 27, 2011) was from 1982 to 1990 the [[mayor]] of [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] in Lincoln Parish in north [[Louisiana]] and thereafter the 20-year president of the Central Louisiana [[Chamber of Commerce]] based in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [[Louisiana]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=149762670|title=Elton C. Pody|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk'', March 29, 2011|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref>
Pody was the son of Tom Henry Pody (1910-2002) and the former Fannie Mae Bearden (1915-2001) of Farmerville in Union Paris].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58430943|title=Tom Henry Pody|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref> He spent the majority of his life in the Ruston/Farmerville area. He graduated from [[Louisiana Tech University]] in Ruston.<ref name=obit/> A [[Republican Party|Republican]], he was defeated on October 6, 1990 for a third term as mayor of Ruston by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Hilda Taylor Perritt, a former high school teacher. Pody polled 2,633 votes (42.2 percent) to Perritt's 3,612 (57.8 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10061990/10061990_31.html|title=Results for Election Date: 10/6/1990 (Lincoln Parish)|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref>
In a civic club address in 1989 in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in Webster Parish, Pody called for municipalities to work together and declared local government the most cost-effective: "I believe local government is very important because it provides so much service on a daily basis."<ref name=mph>Joey White, "Pody touts local government importance", ''Minden Press-Herald'', December 15, 1989, p. 1.</ref> Pody said that the average family then paid $250 annually to local government but $1,700 to the state, and $4,200 to the U.S. government; therefore he considered the local contribution to more effective on a per-capita basis.<ref name=mph/>
After his mayoral tenure ended, Pody moved to Alexandria to take the top position with the Chamber of Commerce. Shortly before his death, Pody had announced that he would retire from the chamber at the end of 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://legiscan.com/LA/text/SCR8/id/609033|title=A Concurrent Resolution: Elton C. Pody|publisher=legiscan.com|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref>
Pody often said, "Every man needs two things, [[God]] and a job", as he devoted much of his pursuits in recent decades to job creation. He attended Grace [[Presbyterian]] Church in Alexandria. To everyone he used the parting comment "Be Blessed".<ref name=obit/>
Pody died at his home in Alexandria at the age of seventy-two. Services were held at Calvary [[Southern Baptst|Baptist]] Church in Alexandria. He is interred at the Mineral Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in Dubach in Lincoln Parish.<ref name=obit/> From his marriage of nearly fifty years to the former Sherry Williamson (born 1943) of Alexandria, came three sons, Stanton Clark "Stan" Pody (born 1964) and wife Mary of Ruston, Shawn A. Pody (born 1966) and wife Kelly of Lebanon, [[Tennessee]], Chad Patrick Pody (born 1969) and wife Angie of Ruston, and one daughter, Sondra Pody Haygood (born 1970) and husband James Gregory Haygood (born 1966) of [[Wichita]], [[Kansas]]. He had a surviving sister, Lola Faye Pody Silmon (born 1932) of Downsville, Louisiana, and eleven grandchildren.<ref name=obit/>
Pody's memory is honored by the Louisiana State University at Alexandria Foundation through the "Elton C. Pody Scholarship Fund".<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pody, Elton C.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Mayors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Presbyterians]]