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Clyde Edward Fant, Sr. (October 18, 1905 – July 6, 1973), was a 20-year Democratic mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, having served from 1946 to 1954 and again from 1958 to 1970. Fant was cited as "Louisiana's Mayor of the Year" in 1953 by the Louisiana Municipal Association, which he headed for three consecutive years. In 1948, with fewer than two years of mayoral experience, he had been among four mayors in the United States invited to The Hague, Netherlands, for the annual conference of the World Conference of Mayors, an occasion which rendered him national recognition. Fant's success as Shreveport's mayor was attributed to his commitment to his city, his interpersonal skills, and the approval in his first term of a $9.6 million capital improvements bond issue that set the stage for municipal growth in the post-World War II era. Shreveport was the second most populous city in Louisiana until the 1970s, when Baton Rouge surpassed it. ==Early years and family== Clyde Fant was a native of Linden in Cass County, Texas. He was one of six children of Mr. and Mrs. John Preston Fant. John Fant was a cotton gin owner and a one-time Texas state legislator. Clyde Fant graduated in 1925 from the former Marshall (Texas) College, now East Texas Baptist University. He taught school for a year in Blocker, a since abandoned community near Marshall, the county seat of Harrison County. He then worked for a lumber company in East Texas and was thereafter associated with Southwestern Gas and Electric Company. He was an executive with Interstate Electric Company, with seven years of service with the firm, when he was transferred to Shreveport. Fant was married to the former Margaret Moos (1909-2009); they had two sons, Clyde E. Fant, Jr., Th.D. (born 1934), a Southern Baptist clergyman and author of the "Great Preaching" series, and John Frank Fant (born 1937), a lawyer in Texas.〔 Dr. Clyde Fant Jr., is a former pastor in Ruston and former professor of preaching at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. He is professor-emeritus at Stetson University in DeLand in Volusia County, Florida. John Frank "Jack" Fant received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and in 1962 a law degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge. On September 4, 1971, he was appointed to serve as Judge over the First Judicial District, Division "D", in Shreveport to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of William F. Woods. Upon leaving the bench, Jack Fant relocated to Huntsville, Texas, where he took a position as an Inmate Legal Services attorney with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (then known as the Texas Department of Corrections). He was later promoted to an assistant director over the State Counsel for Offenders (then the Inmate Legal Services) and served in that capacity for several years. In 2002, his employment was terminated after the Department of Criminal Justice recognized that he did not hold a Texas law license. On May 3, 2004, a Walker County jury found Fant guilty of perjury. He did not appeal. (Cause Number 02-1701, Walker County Court At Law). With the resoluton of his legal credentials, Fant remains in private practice in Huntsville. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clyde Fant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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