Jam Downs
| James Crawford "Jam" Downs | |
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| District Attorney of the Louisiana 9th Judicial District (Rapides Parish) | |
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In office Decdember 2000 – January 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Charles F. Wagner |
| Succeeded by | Phillip Terrell |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 7, 1940 Cheneyville, Rapides Parish |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Maureen Stewart Downs |
| Relations |
U. T. Downs (grandfather) |
| Parents | Alice Daigre Downs Thomas |
| Residence | Lecompte, Rapides Parish |
| Alma mater | Louisiana State University Law Center |
| Occupation | Attorney |
U. T. Downs (grandfather)
J. Earl Downs (uncle)
James U. Downs (cousin)
James Crawford Downs, known as Jam Downs (born October 7, 1940), is the former district attorney of the Louisiana 9th Judicial District Court based in Alexandria and Rapides Parish. He has held the position since 2000.
Downs, who has two sisters, is the son of the late C. H. "Sammy" Downs of Alexandria who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature and was a confidant of Governors Earl Kemp Long and John McKeithen. His mother, the former Alice Daigre (pronounded DAGE), subsequently Alice Downs and then Alice Thomas (1914-1994), was a sister of the Alexandria consulting engineer Louis Jacob Daigre, Jr. Sammy Downs is buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville. Alice Daigre Downs Thomas, who died nine years after her first husband, from whom she was divorced, is interred at the Henderson James Cemetery in rural Hot Wells in Rapides Parish.
Downs' uncle, J. Earl Downs, was the public safety commissioner in Shreveport prior to 1963, where he served alongside Mayors James C. Gardner and Clyde Fant, He was unseated in the 1962 Democratic primary by George W. D'Artois.
Like his father and brother, Downs is a Democrat and a graduate of the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge. Before his election as DA, Jam Downs had been an assistant district attorney. He is known for his interest in conservation, hunting, and enforcement of game laws. He was born in Cheneyville but resides with his wife, the former Maureen Stewart, in a restored farmhouse near Lecompte, also in Rapides Parish.
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