MISSISSIPPI JOE HIRSCH "Water, water everywhere" -Coleridge LOUISIANA GEORGE H. TERRIBERRY ......A land where there is no winter, where flowers always bloom and birds always sing" "Too much honour, O! 'tis a burden Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven" -Shakespeare THE LAWYERS INCOME TAX JAMES M. BECK "What is to us if taxes rise or fall Thanks to our cunning we pay none at all' -Churchill THE LAWYERS OUTGO TAX FREDERICK N. JUDSON "These exactions are most pestilent To bear them, the back is sacrifice to the load" -Shakespeare THE MANANA MAN as viewed by JACK LAFIANCE (James J. McLoughlin) "Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day" -John Bowring "The rest is silence" -Hamlet In Memorian WILLIAM NAPOLEON POTTS BENJAMIN RICE FORMAN SIMCOE WALMSLEY GILBERT L. DUPRE, JR. HORACE L. DUFOUR JOSEPH F. WALTON HORACE E. UPTON WILLIAM NAPOLEON POTTS William Napoleon Potts, son of John James Potts and Mary A. Polk, was born in the town of La Grange, Fayette County, Tennessee, March 9, 1841, and died at his home in the City of Monroe, Louisiana, April 26, 1913. He was admitted to the Bar in the town of Natchitoches, Louisiana, August 14, 1867. Mr. Potts first practiced law in the town of Rayville, Richland Parish, where he was associated with the late Judge Todd, a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. He was elected Parish Attorney and subsequently District Attorney. In 1883 the firm of Potts & Hudson was formed, and he continued as the senior member of this firm until 1894, when he was elected Judge of the Fifth Judicial District, composed of the Parishes of Ouachita and Morehouse. He was re-elected in 1896, and served until the expiration of his term in 1900, when he became a member of the firm of Hudson, Potts and Bernstein, and so continued until his death. Mr. Potts also served as a member of the Civil Code Commission, appointed by Governor Sanders to revise the Civil Code of Louisiana. Simple in habits, modest and unassuming, a man of ability, he preferred to live in the consciousness of duty well performed and the pleasure derived from service to his fellow man. It is said of him that he was an ideal soldier, lawyer, public official, citizen, friend, husband and father. |