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W. A. Stroud

W. A. Stroud

|birth_date=1849

|birth_date=1849

|birth_place=Cokesbury, Greenwood County<br>[[South Carolina]]

|birth_place=Cokesbury<br>

Greenwood County<br>[[South Carolina]]

|death_date=February 16, 1900

|death_date=February 16, 1900

|resting_place=Magnolia Cemetery<br> in [[Baton Rouge]]

|resting_place=Magnolia Cemetery<br> in [[Baton Rouge]]

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Vance studied law privately in Abbeville in western South Carolina. In 1879, he relocated to Bellevue, then the parish seat of Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana, where he established an extensive law practice. He won a special election in 1886 for the Louisiana State Senate, then District 21.and including Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster parishes, to succeed John Chappell Vance, who resigned after five years in office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Senate Directory, 1880-2024|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=February 11, 2021}}</ref> It is unclear how or if William Vance is related to this John C. Vance, but they were not brothers. John Vance was six years the senior of William Vance and was born in 1843 in Abbeville County, South Carolina, but it is unclear if William Vance had any association with Abbeville prior to 1870<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=John+C._Vance&death=1913_Minden-Louisiana|title=John C. Vance: Ancestry|publisher=ancestry.com|accessdate=February 11, 2021}}</ref>

Vance studied law privately in Abbeville in western South Carolina. In 1879, he relocated to Bellevue, then the parish seat of Bossier Parish (now the seat of government is in Benton) in northwestern Louisiana, where he established an extensive law practice. He won a special election in 1886 for the Louisiana State Senate, then District 21.and including Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster parishes, to succeed John Chappell Vance, who resigned after five years in office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Senate Directory, 1880-2024|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=February 11, 2021}}</ref> It is unclear how or if William Vance is related to this John C. Vance, but they were not brothers. John Vance was six years the senior of William Vance and was born in 1843 in Abbeville County, South Carolina, but it is unclear if William Vance had any association with Abbeville prior to 1870<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=John+C._Vance&death=1913_Minden-Louisiana|title=John C. Vance: Ancestry|publisher=ancestry.com|accessdate=February 11, 2021}}</ref>

William Vance served in the Senate from 1886 to 1892 and was also during the latter part of his tenure the assistant to state Attorney General Walter Henry Rogers. In 1892, Vance assumed his terminal position as the private secretary to two-term Governor Murphy James Foster, Sr. (1849-1921).<ref name=findagrave/>

William Vance served in the Senate from 1886 to 1892 and was also during the latter part of his tenure the assistant to state Attorney General Walter Henry Rogers. In 1892, Vance assumed his terminal position as the private secretary to two-term Governor Murphy James Foster, Sr. (1849-1921).<ref name=findagrave/>