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Winn Parish ((フランス語:Paroisse de Winn)) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,313.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/22/22127.html )〕 Its seat is Winnfield.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The parish was founded in 1852.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Winn Parish )〕 It is last in alphabetical order of Louisiana's sixty-four parishes. Winn is separated from Natchitoches Parish along U.S. Highway 71 by Saline Bayou, the first blackwater protected waterway in the American South. ==History== Winn Parish was established in 1852 from lands which had belonged to the parishes of Catahoula, Natchitoches, and Rapides.〔 During the Civil War, David Pierson, a young attorney, was elected to represent the parish at the Secession Convention called in January 1861 in Baton Rouge by Governor Thomas Overton Moore. Pierson voted against secession and refused, along with several others, to change his "no" vote at the end of the process when asked to do so to make the final tally unanimous. There was little military action in Winn Parish during the Civil War, but there was a problem with conscripts fleeing into the wooded areas to avoid military duty. The Confederate States Army defeated a Union detachment sent to destroy a salt works in the parish. Winn Parish contributed to the $80,000 raised to build fortifications on the nearby Red River.〔John D. Winters, ''The Civil War in Louisiana'', Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963, ISBN 0-8071-0834-0, pp. 164, 310〕 After the war, bandits roamed the Natchez Trace or Harrisonburg Road that ran through the lower part of the parish. Among the worst were the West and Kimbrell clan. For seven years they preyed especially on travelers and migrants passing through the area. In April 1873, white Democrats forming a militia from Winn Parish joined with ex-Confederate veterans from Rapides and Grant parishes against Republican blacks in the Colfax Massacre in neighboring Grant Parish.〔Keith, Leeanna, ''The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, & The Death of Reconstruction,'' New York: Oxford University Press, 2007〕 They attacked freedmen defending the parish courthouse and two Republican officeholders in the aftermath to the disputed gubernatorial election of 1872. Among the 80-150 blacks killed were at least 50 who had surrendered; a total of three white men were killed in the confrontation. Winn Parish is the home of the former Long family Democratic political dynasty, started by Huey Long. It is the birthplace of three governors of Louisiana. Governor Earl Long is buried in Winnfield in a public square known as the Earl K. Long State Park. Since 1956, Winn Parish has had three sheriffs named "Jordan." R. Sanford Jordan, a Democrat, served from 1956 to 1976.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tom Kelly, "Third Sheriff Jordan elected in Winn Parish," 2011 )〕 A second but unrelated Jordan, James Edward "Buddy" Jordan (1942-2012),〔Buddy Jordan obituary, ''Alexandria Daily Town Talk'', February 23, 2012〕 was the sheriff from 1992 to 2008, when he was defeated by a 10-vote margin by a fellow Democrat, Albert D. "Bodie" Little.〔Louisiana Secretary of State, General election returns, November 17, 2007〕 Subsequently, A. D. Little was forced from office in 2011 and convicted thereafter on federal drug charges.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Former Sheriff of Winn Parish Found Guilty: Federal Jury Convicts A. D. "Bodie" Little of Drug Charges Tonight," February 24, 2012 )〕 Cranford Jordan, Jr. (born 1952), a nephew of Sanford Jordan, won the office on his third attempt in the November 2011 general election and took office in July 2012. Cranford Jordan is an Independent.〔 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「Winn Parish, Louisiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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