James M. Goslin
| James McCormick Goslin, Jr. | |
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| Sheriff of Caddo Parish, Louisiana | |
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In office December 22, 1966 – July 1, 1976 |
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| Preceded by | J. Howell Flournoy |
| Succeeded by | Harold M. Terry |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 27, 1915 Calhoun, Ouachita Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Died | September 27, 2001 (aged 86) Shreveport, Caddo Parish |
| Resting place | Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Nettye Lewis Goslin |
| Children | James M. Goslin, III |
| Parents |
James M. Goslin, Sr. |
| Residence |
Reared in Ruston, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | FBI National Academy |
| Occupation | Law-enforcement officer |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Rank | Criminal investigator |
| Battles/wars | World War II in the Philippine Islands |
James M. Goslin, Sr.
Reared in Ruston, Louisiana
James McCormick Goslin, Jr., known as James M. Goslin or Jimmy Goslin (August 27, 1915 – July 27, 2001), was from 1966 to 1976 the sheriff of Caddo Parish, based in Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana.
Goslin was born in Calhoun in western Ouachita Parish, the son of James Goslin, Sr. (1888-1977), and the former Reita Roan (1894-1981). Reared thereafter in Ruston in Lincoln Parish, Goslin relocated in 1931 to Shreveport.
For seven years Goslin was an officer of the Shreveport Police Department. During World War II, he served in the Philippine Islands as a United States Army criminal investigator agent.
In 1944, he became a deputy under Caddo Parish Sheriff J. Howell Flournoy. Goslin graduated from the FBI National Academy and the Police Administration School at Southern Methodist University near Dallas, Texas.
On October 31, 1961, Sheriff Flournoy, Chief Deputy Goslin, and J. Earl Downs, the Shreveport commissioner of public safety who was unseated the next year by George W. D'Artois, informed the manager of Continental Southern Trailways bus terminal in Shreveport that facilities must under state law remain racially segregated. Despite the warning, terminal manager Hugh B. Walmsley removed signs which had designated separate waiting rooms, restrooms, ticket booths, and dining facilities for the use of whites and African Americans. The next day, the Caddo Parish district attorney instituted a prosecution of Walmsley for violation of the state segregation law. Soon Judge Benjamin C. Dawkins, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana declared that segregation at the bus terminal imposed an "undue burden" upon interstate commerce at odds with the Commerce Clause of Article 1, Section 8 , of the United States Constitution. In November 1962, the court directed city officials, including Mayor Clyde Fant and Commissioner Downs, to halt the state segregation policy at the bus terminal and to pay costs related to the lawsuit. Flournoy and Goslin were removed as defendants in the case; the attorney for the city was a rising political figure, later U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.
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