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William Putnam Sevier, Jr., known as Buck Sevier (October 13, 1899 – September 4, 1985)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tallulah Cemeteries )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Putnam "Buck" Sevier, Jr. )〕 was the longest-serving mayor of a community in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Sevier was first an alderman and then from 1947 to 1974〔Exact dates confirmed by the mayor's office in Tallulah, Louisiana〕 the mayor of Tallulah, the seat of government of Madison Parish in the delta country of northeastern Louisiana. A great-great-grandson of the Tennessee pioneer and governor, John Sevier, for whom Sevierville in Sevier County, Tennessee, is named. He was a cousin of State Senator Andrew L. Sevier and State Representative Henry Clay Sevier, both from Tallulah.〔 ==Biographical sketch== Sevier was born on a plantation in southern Madison Parish, the eldest child of William Sevier, Sr. (1868-1943), a native of Thomastown in Leake County in central Mississippi, and the former Ada Shadbourne Graves (1877-1955). His maternal grandparents were large landowners and plantation operators prior to the American Civil War. As a child Sevier gave himself the nickname "Buck" but later tried to discourage its use; most people though still called him "Buck". In 1916, he graduated from Tallulah High School, since relocated and renamed Madison High School. He then attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge with hopes of becoming a lawyer. He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and served in World War I as a balloon observer. He never completed legal studies but instead returned to Tallulah in 1922, where he was employed in the United States Department of Agriculture experiment station established to protect cotton growers from the pervasive boll weevil.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Putnam Sevier, Jr., Mayor of Tallulah, Madison Parish, Louisiana )〕 Soon he became a teller at Tallulah State Bank and remained with the institution for fifty-eight years until he was eighty, when he retired with the title of chairman emeritus. When Sevier began working for the bank, it employed only five persons and did not use electricity until after 5 p.m. All receipts were hand-posted. From the bank he witnessed the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, but the institution survives and has never closed its doors.〔 Sevier was the president of the Louisiana Bankers Association in 1961-1962〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LBA Past Chairmen )〕 and vice president of the American Bankers Association in 1963-1964. He was a director of the Standard Life Insurance Company of Jackson, Mississippi.〔 Sevier first served three terms as an alderman in Tallulah. His combined service of forty-one years as an elected official a record for longevity in Louisiana. Even the twenty-seven-plus years as mayor alone remains a record in the state.〔In his last term as mayor, Sevier worked alongside police chief Zelma Wyche, the first African American in that position and known as "Mr. Civil Rights of Louisiana." Wyche also served a term as mayor from 1986 to 1990. 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「William Putnam Sevier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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