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Sturgis Sprague DeWitt, known primarily as S. S. DeWitt (September 15, 1914 – February 19, 1998),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sturgis Sprague DeWitt )〕 was a farmer and businessman from Newellton and St. Joseph in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana who served as a conservative Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1964to 1972. In 1963, DeWitt unseated 20-year Representative J. C. Seaman of Waterproof in southern Tensas Parish. He had run unsuccessfully against Seaman in the 1959 primary. In his first term from 1964 to 1968, DeWitt represented only Tensas Parish, but in his second term, he was paired with Lantz Womack of Winnsboro, the seat of government of Franklin Parish, in a combined district including Franklin, Tensas, and Madison parishes. DeWitt was hence the last person to have represented a district which included only Tensas Parish, the least populous of Louisiana's sixty-four parishes. Prior to 1968, all Louisiana parishes had a minimum of one member in the 105-member state House regardless of population. DeWitt lost a bid for a third term in the 1971 primary, and Womack was elected in a redistricted single-member district.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1880-2012 )〕 After his legislative service, DeWitt switched his affiliation to the Republican Party. ==Early years, education, military== DeWitt was born to Harry Burr DeWitt and the former Edith Sprague in Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish, also in northeastern Louisiana. Harry DeWitt, a native of Lodi, Ohio, came to Louisiana at the age of seventeen to work in a sawmill at the community of Peck in Catahoula Parish. Edith Sprague was reared in Sicily Island, but her family came originally from Natchez, Mississippi. DeWitt graduated from Sicily Island High School in 1931 and thereafter attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge for two years.〔Obituary of Sturgis Sprague DeWitt, ''Tensas Gazette'', St. Joseph, Louisiana, February 25, 1998, p. 2〕 In 1940, he married the former Hazel Green (July 19, 1921 – January 29, 2015), the daughter of William Lawrence Green, Sr., and the former Ernestine Vance. She was born in the village of Slate Springs in Calhoun County in northern Mississippi, and had a surviving twin sister, Mabel Green Walker. Mrs. DeWitt was reared in Newellton, graduated from the former Newellton High School, and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Newellton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hazel Green DeWitt )〕 From 1941 to 1945, DeWitt served in the United States Army Air Corps, later the Air Force, at Muroc Army Air Field in California, renamed in 1949 as Edwards Air Force Base.〔Statement of Mrs. Hazel DeWitt, April 22, 2008〕 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「S. S. DeWitt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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