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unusual facts about Rapides Parish


Robert H. Bolton

(June 19, 1908 – July 15, 2003), was a prominent banker, civic leader, and Southern Baptist layman in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana.


Allen Bares

Such feminist groups such as the National Organization for Women, subsequently headed by the Louisiana native Kim Gandy, formerly of Bossier City, successfully targeted Bares and a pro-life House member, fellow Democrat Carl Newton Gunter, Jr., of Rapides Parish, for defeat.

J. Lomax Jordan

Feminist groups such as the National Organization for Women, subsequently headed by the Louisiana native Kim Gandy, formerly of Bossier City, targeted Bares and a pro-life House member, Democrat Carl Newton Gunter, Jr., of Rapides Parish for defeat.

Jacob Casson Geiger

A native of Alexandria, Rapides Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana, Jacob Casson Geiger (18 November 1885 - 7 November 1981) was a graduate of Tulane University and for many years in San Francisco and Oakland, California, city director of public health and the 1935 president of the San Francisco Medical Society.

L. B. Henry

A businessman in Pineville, Henry served on the Rapides Parish Police Jury (equivalent to county commission in other states) from, first, 1956–1960, and, again, from 1968-1992.

Louisiana Highway 454

Louisiana Highway 454 (LA 454) is a state highway in Rapides and Avoyelles Parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

Sam H. Theriot

Such feminist groups such as the National Organization for Women, subsequently headed by the Louisiana native Kim Gandy, successfully targeted Bares and a pro-life House member, Democrat Carl Newton Gunter, Jr., of Rapides Parish, for defeat.

Wyatt Luther Nugent

Area sheriffs, including U. T. Downs of Rapides Parish, Bryant Sholars of Winn Parish, and Henderson Jordan, who had two years earlier participated in the capture of the bank bandits and murderers Bonnie and Clyde in his own Bienville Parish, headed posses of local citizens in searches of the region.


see also

Boyce, Louisiana

Lloyd George Teekell, a state representative from Rapides Parish from 1953 to 1960 and a judge of the 9th Judicial

Charles W. DeWitt, Jr.

He was chairman of the Heart Fund and a former member of the Rapides Parish Stormwater Management and Drainage District.

Chris Roy, Jr.

Had he sought a second term in the state House, Roy would have faced two Republicans in the October 22 nonpartisan blanket primary, Lance Harris and Barett Byrd of Woodworth in south Rapides Parish, a graduate of the University of Arkansas and a retired colonel in the United States Marine Corps.