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George Madden Lomax (August 8, 1849 – May 13, 1917)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George M. Lomax )〕 was from 1892 to 1896 a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Lincoln Parish, who introduced legislation to establish in 1894 what is now Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana. A Democrat, his single term corresponded with the first term of Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016: Lincoln Parish )〕 ==Public life== In 1893, a fire destroyed the former Ruston College. The next year the Lincoln Parish Police Jury in special session outlined plans to establish a state-supported industrial institute. Along with fellow Representative J. T. M. Hancock of Jackson Parish and journalist, lawyer, later Judge John Burnham Holstead of Ruston, Lomax pushed for passage of the proposed bill. On July 6, 1894, the legislature passed Act 68 to establish The Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana to be located in the parish seat of Ruston. The law specified that the institution was intended "for the education of the white children of the State of Louisiana in the arts and sciences". The original skills to be taught at the industrial institute included telegraphy, stenography, drawing, industrial applications of designing and engraving, needlework, and bookkeeping. Since the school was the first state college north of Natchitoches, home of the new Northwestern State University, admission standards were considered lenient. Incoming students were merely required to be at least fourteen years of age and able with "tolerable correctness" to read, write, speak and spell. Colonel Arthur T. Prescott of Baton Rouge was named the first president of the new institution. He immediately moved his family to Ruston, where he began the supervision of the building of a two-story brick building known as "Old Main."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Prescott Library History )〕 In 1902, Lomax was a plaintiff with fourteen others in a civil suit against William H. Phillips regarding the physical destruction of the old Walnut Creek schoolhouse building in Ward 3 of Lincoln Parish near Simsboro. The structure had intermittently housed a private school affiliated with a Southern Baptist church. The building had fallen into disuse and the school was being held instead at the Walnut Creek Baptist Church. Phillips demolished the building to obtain the lumber from the structure for use in improvements to the public school in nearby Simsboro. Lomax won in the district court in Ruston, but the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the First Circuit reversed the original ward, and the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the circuit court and sided with Phillips and the public school. The higher courts questioned the standing of Lomax and the other plaintiffs as representatives of a neighborhood. At the time of his death, Lomax was a member of the Ruston City Council. 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「George M. Lomax」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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