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Al Bolton
Albert Martin Bolton, Sr., known as Al Bolton (October 24, 1925 – April 2, 2014), was for forty-seven years a television or radio meteorologist from his adopted city of Shreveport, Louisiana. From 1954 to 1991, he was the first weather anchor for KSLA, a CBS television network affiliate; from 1991 to 2001, he performed the same duties for KRMD (AM) radio. From these positions and his widespread civic activities, Bolton gained wide recognition throughout northwestern Louisiana as well as nearby counties in East Texas and southwestern Arkansas.
==Family background==
Bolton was the scion of a prominent family from his native Alexandria, the seat of government of Rapides Parish and the largest city in Central Louisiana. His grandfather, George Washington Bolton, was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1888 to 1896 and the House Speaker from 1892 to 1896 during the administration of the first Governor Murphy J. Foster.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1812 to 2016 )〕 The grandfather was a businessman and banker who founded the former Rapides Bank and Trust Company, which later merged into Bank One Corporation. In 1900, he was the first president of the Louisiana Bankers Association. He was one of the founders of the large Emmanuel Baptist Church in downtown Alexandria. G. W. Bolton, a member of the Rapides Parish School Board, died about the time that his grandson Al was entering West End Elementary School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bolton, George Washington )〕
Bolton was a son of Roscoe Conkling Bolton and the former Merle Martin.〔 His name is derived from a combination of a paternal uncle, Albert Bolton, who died in 1882 shortly after his first birthday, and his mother's maiden name. Roscoe Conkling Bolton was an insurance agent in Alexandria, who established a company in 1911 that became in 1926 Alexander & Bolton. The firm originally operated in the Rapides Bank Building but acquired its own facility in 1961 on Jackson Street.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Holly Jo Linzay, People: Roscoe and Sue Bolton, May 2011 )〕 Alexander & Bolton operated after 1933 under the supervision of Bolton's older brother, Roscoe A. Bolton (1913–2012). The company was sold in 2008 and became Brown & Brown, Inc. Roscoe A. Bolton was hence an insurance agent for seventy-five years;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Life Legacy: Roscoe A. Bolton (brother of Al Bolton) )〕 in 2008, with seventy-seven years tenure, he was the longest-serving member in the world of Rotary International.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Billy Gunn, Roscoe Bolton of Alexandria, world's longest serving Rotarian, dies at 99, September 27, 2014 )〕 Al Bolton also had a second brother, Fender Wade Bolton.〔
Another uncle, James W. Bolton, was also a banker and school board member. Cousins James C. Bolton and Robert H. Bolton, sons of James W. Bolton, continued the family banking and civic heritage. Al Bolton graduated in June 1942 from Bolton High School in Alexandria's Garden District. The school is named for his uncle James, who was an 18-year president of the Rapides Parish School Board.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bolton, James W. )〕
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