J.C. "Sonny" Gilbert
| J. C. Gilbert | |
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| Louisiana State Senator for Franklin, Richland, and Catahoula parishes | |
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In office 1960–1972 |
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| Preceded by | Ralph E. King, M.D. |
| Succeeded by | James Harvey "Jim" Brown, Jr. |
| Louisiana State Representative for District 21 (Catahoula and Concordia parishes) | |
| Preceded by | David I. Patten |
| Succeeded by | Dan Richey |
| Member of the Catahoula Parish Police Jury | |
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In office 1956–1960 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Jess Carr Gilbert March 6, 1922 Wisner, Louisiana, USA |
| Died |
November 21, 2014 (aged 92) Sicily Island, Louisiana |
| Resting place | Oakley Cemetery in Gilbert in Franklin Parish |
| Political party | Democrat (later Republican convert) |
| Spouse(s) |
(1) Barbara June Peck Gilbert (married 1946-1985, her death) |
| Children |
Barbara Peck Gilbert Haigh |
| Alma mater |
Wisner High School |
| Religion | United Methodist Church |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
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(1) Though he is a member of a pioneer Catahoula Parish family, Gilbert grew up in a boardinghouse operated by his mother, who was widowed at the age of twenty-eight. (2) In 1976, after his term in the Louisiana House of Representatives, Gilbert was named a director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries under appointment of then Governor Edwin Edwards. |
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(1) Barbara June Peck Gilbert (married 1946-1985, her death)
Barbara Peck Gilbert Haigh
J. C. Gilbert, Jr.
Wisner High School
Northeast Louisiana Junior College
(1) Though he is a member of a pioneer Catahoula Parish family, Gilbert grew up in a boardinghouse operated by his mother, who was widowed at the age of twenty-eight.
Jess Carr Gilbert, known as J. C. "Sonny" Gilbert (March 6, 1922 – November 21, 2014), was a cotton farmer and a former Democratic member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from the town of Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish in northeastern Louisiana. Gilbert served three consecutive terms in the Louisiana State Senate from 1960 to 1972, having represented Franklin, Richland, and Catahoula parishes.
In 1972, Gilbert was elected for a single four-year term to the Louisiana House of Representatives from newly established District 21 (Catahoula and neighboring Concordia parishes). He was allied with the anti-Long legislative faction. During the 1980s, as a retired lawmaker and a political conservative, Gilbert switched his party registration to Republican.
Gilbert was born in Wisner in Franklin Parish to Jess Gilbert, I (1894–1923), and the former Fannie Adams (1895–1976). Jess and Fannie shared an October 27 birthday but a year apart. Fannie was a daughter of William Hughlett Adams, a Franklin Parish sheriff. Gilbert's sister, Frances Virginia Gilbert Martin was his elder and only sibling. Gilbert was a great-nephew of former State Senator Thomas Benjamin Gilbert, II (1864–1931), who served from 1904 to 1908 and again from 1916 to 1932. "Sonny" Gilbert's father, Jess Gilbert, I, was a first cousin of Henry Wellman "Harry" Gilbert (1894–1970) of Wisner, a state senator from Franklin Parish from 1932 to 1940. Harry Gilbert was a son of Thomas B. Gilbert.
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