Dayton Waller
| Dayton Waller | |
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| Louisiana State Representative for Caddo Parish | |
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In office 1968–1972 |
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| Succeeded by | Single-member district |
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Dayton Hollis Waller, Jr. April 2, 1925 Shreveport, Caddo Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Died | May 26, 2015 (aged 90) Shreveport, Louisiana |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Fern Reynolds (m. 1947; d. 2013) |
| Children | Four |
| Alma mater | Centenary College of Louisiana |
| Occupation | Farmer businessman |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
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| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Rank | Military policeman |
Dayton Hollis Waller, Jr. (April 2, 1925 – May 26, 2015), was a farmer and businessman from Shreveport, Louisiana, who was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He served a single term with six other at-large members from 1968 until 1972.
Waller was born in Shreveport to Dayton Waller, Sr. (1895–1988), a native of Haynesville in Claiborne Parish in North Louisiana, and his wife, the former Elisabeth Lane (1902–1946), the fourth of five children of Shreveport industrialist Charles W. Lane, Sr., and the former Addie Noel. Charles Lane, the grandfather of Dayton Waller, Jr., was orphaned at thirteen. Self-educated, he became the owner of the Giddens-Lane Company, a bank director, an appointee of the Caddo Levee Board, and later established the Charles W. Lane Company. The Lane Company is engaged in the management of commercial real estate development, agricultural lands, and petroleum and natural gas holdings. For years the firm was managed by E. Alton Sartor, Jr., another grandson of Charles W. Lane and hence a cousin of Dayton Waller, Jr. Sartor's wife, Jean Oliver Sartor, was an artist in Shreveport.
Dayton Waller, Sr., the son of Shadrack Columbus Waller (1860–1932) and the former Mary L. Dawson (1865–1941), was a director of the C. W. Lane Company. The senior Waller was a United States Navy veteran of World War I, a Shriner, and a member of the American Legion and the First Baptist Church of Shreveport. After the death of his first wife, Elisabeth, he married the former Blanche Hagan (died 1989), a native of Dry Prong in Grant Parish, by whom he had a second son, the half-brother of Dayton Waller, Jr. Dayton, Sr., Elisabeth, and Blanche Waller are interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.
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