E.D. Gleason
| Ernest Dewey Gleason | |
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| Louisiana State Representative for Webster Parish | |
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In office 1952 – July 25, 1959 |
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| Preceded by | Lizzie P. Thompson |
| Succeeded by | Mary Smith Gleason |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 9, 1899 Shongaloo, Webster Parish, Louisiana |
| Died | July 25, 1959 (aged 59) Minden, Webster Parish |
| Resting place | Minden Cemetery |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Smith Gleason |
| Children |
Thomas E. Gleason |
| Parents |
William Thomas and Ida Camille Lunsford Gleason |
| Occupation | Farmer |
| Religion | Baptist |
Thomas E. Gleason
William Ernest Gleason
William Thomas and Ida Camille Lunsford Gleason
Ernest Dewey Gleason, known as E. D. Gleason (September 9, 1899 – July 25, 1959), was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the Evergreen Community north of Minden in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. Gleason served from 1952 until his death at the end of his second term. He was briefly succeeded in office by his widow, Mary Smith Gleason, who was appointed for the remaining eight months by then Governor Earl Kemp Long.
Gleason was born in Shongaloo in central Webster Parish to William Thomas Gleason (February 18, 1868 – September 14, 1947), a planter and banker, and the former Ida Camille Lunsford (November 7, 1867 – December 4, 1909), who is interred at Cotton Valley Cemetery in nearby Cotton Valley. His mother died when Gleason was about ten years of age. His father remarried. Gleason's stepmother was the former Annie Craton (April 15, 1877 – February 18, 1952), the aunt of the 38-year Webster Parish tax assessor, Richard B. Garrison (1916-1991), businessman William Banks Craton (1904-1989), and the Minden banker James Aubrey Craton (1908-1999).
Gleason graduated in 1918 from Cotton Valley High School north of Minden. The school closed in 2011. He worked in Caddo Parish from 1919 to 1935, when he began to manage his own farm at Evergreen. He was subsequently named vice president of the Webster Parish Farm Bureau.
Gleason ran unsuccessfully in 1944 for the Webster Parish Police Jury, having been defeated, 348 to 318, by the incumbent J. L. Munn, who held this seat from 1936 to 1952. After the police jury candidacy, the Gleasons lost one of their three sons, Thomas D. Gleason (August 7, 1924 – November 17, 1944), to hostile action in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
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