Richard Cleveland Drew
| Richard Cleveland Drew, Sr. | |
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| Judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in Shreveport, Louisiana | |
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In office 1911 – March 1913 |
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| Judge of the 2nd Judicial District of Bossier and Webster parishes | |
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In office May 29, 1882 – June 2, 1900 |
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| Preceded by | R. B. Taylor |
| Succeeded by | John T. Watkins |
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In office December 8, 1904 – March 4, 1911 |
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| Preceded by | John T. Watkins |
| Succeeded by | John N. Sandlin |
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| Born | April 17, 1848 Overton community Webster Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Died | December 21, 1919 (aged 71) Minden, Webster Parish |
| Resting place | Minden Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Katie Roberta Caldwell Drew (married 1880–1919, his death) |
| Children |
Harmon Caldwell Drew |
| Alma mater | Homer College |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
Harmon Caldwell Drew
Richard Cleveland, Drew Jr.
Allyn Sidney "Skeet" Drew
Miss Katie Cleveland Drew
Thomas Caldwell Drew
Waddy Thompson Drew
Richard Cleveland Drew, Sr. (April 17, 1848 – December 21, 1919), also known as R. C. Drew, was a judge of the state district and circuit courts, based in Minden in northwestern Louisiana. The Drew family was among the original 19th-century settlers of the future Webster Parish, of which Minden is the parish seat. The first Drew arrived in 1818 in the Overton community on Dorcheat Bayou.
Drew was born in rural Webster Parish to the former Sarah Jessie Cleveland (1828–80) and Richard Maxwell Drew (1822–50), an attorney, district judge, delegate to the Louisiana state constitutional convention of 1845, and state representative from 1848 until his death, at the age of barely twenty-eight.
Richard Maxwell Drew is interred at an abandoned cemetery in Overton. His epitaph on his tombstone, which was damaged several years ago by a dozer operating in the area, reads: "His public and private virtues have survived his death and will endure when this dumb marble shall have faded."
R. C. Drew was educated at the former Homer College in Homer, the seat of Claiborne Parish. He read law under A. B. George and was admitted to the bar in 1872 at Monroe, Louisiana. He was a member of the Masonic lodge.
In 1880, R. C. Drew married the former Katie Roberta Caldwell (October 15, 1859 – December 5, 1936), a native of Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish and the daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Thomas J. Caldwell, who were originally from South Carolina. Katie Caldwell was educated at a female seminary in Paris in northeastern Texas. R. C. and Katie Drew had seven children, including Harmon Caldwell Drew, a district and circuit court judge who served on both benches from 1930 to 1945. R. C. and H. C. Drew remain the only father/son combination to have served as a judge on both state district and circuit courts in Louisiana. Their other children, all but one of whom died before the age of sixty, were Allyn Sidney Drew (1897–1956), Richard Cleveland Drew, Jr. (1885–1950), Katie Cleveland Drew (1887–1908), Thomas Caldwell Drew (1891–1940), Waddy Thompson Drew (1894–1941), and Mary Sarah Drew (1904–55).
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