O. E. Price
| Oscar Ewing Price | |
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Judge Price's official undated judicial photograph | |
| Bossier City Municipal Judge | |
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In office 1954–1960 | |
| Succeeded by | Monty M. Wyche |
| Judge of the Louisiana 26th Judicial District Court | |
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In office 1960–1969 | |
| Preceded by | James E. Bolin |
| Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal | |
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In office 1969–1985 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 1, 1924 DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, USA |
| Died | February 23, 2006 (aged 82) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) |
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| Children |
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| Residence |
Bossier City Bossier Parish, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Judge; Attorney |
| Religion | United Methodist |
Oscar Ewing Price, known as O. E. Price (January 1, 1924 – February 23, 2006), was a state district and appeals court judge from Bossier City, Louisiana.
Background
Price was born in Logansport in DeSoto Parish in northwestern Louisiana to Oscar Elijah Price (1876–1943) and the former Katherine Holt.[1] Price graduated at the age of sixteen from Logansport High School[2] and then entered Louisiana Tech University in Ruston for three years. He then entered the United States Army Air Corps, forerunner to the Air Force, for three years of service during World War II. He served in the Pacific Theater of operations. In 1949, he earned his Juris Doctor degree from Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge and thereafter opened his law office in Bossier City, located across the Red River from Shreveport.[3]
Judgeships
In 1954, Price, a Democrat, was elected municipal judge in Bossier City. On July 23, 1960, he secured election to the 26th Judicial District Court bench. With 6,031 votes, Price defeated two primary opponents from Bossier City, Laurie Campbell and Harvey Locke Carey, who polled 3,713 and 1,828 votes, respectively. Carey had served brief in 1950 as a U. S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, based in Shreveport. Beginning in 1960, there were two judgeships in the 26th District. Price was the judge for Bossier Parish, and his colleague, also elected in 1960, was Enos McClendon of Minden for Webster Parish.[4]
Price served on the district court until 1969 when he was elected to the Louisiana Circuit Court of Appeal for the Second District, based in Shreveport. In 1979, Price was named chief judge of the appeal court, on which he served until his retirement in 1985. He was a past chairman of the Louisiana Conference of Court of Appeal Judges and a member of the Louisiana, Bossier Parish, and Shreveport bar associations. In 1999, Price was honored at a 50-year reunion of LSU Law School graduates.[3] After retirement, Price engaged in arbitration work for the law firm of Peters, Ward, Bright and Hennessy in Shreveport.[2]
Associations
Price was active in the Louisiana Bar Association, Bossier Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis International, United Way, the former Palmetto Country Club, and the Young Men's Christian Association. He was an avid runner, having participated in two triathlons when he was in his fifties.[2] He served on the boards of several financial institutions. He was reared in the First United Methodist Church of Logansport and was thereafter a long-term member of the First United Methodist Church of Bossier City.[2]
Family and death
Price was twice married. Two years after the death of his first wife, the former Joyce Maurine Walker (September 29, 1925 – September 13, 1995), a victim of Alzheimer's disease, Judge Price married Anna Florence "Flo" Whittington Bigby (1923–2009), a businesswoman and the widow of Price's former judicial colleague, Walter O. Bigby. She was the daughter of banker and former Louisiana State Senator V.V. Whittington, who represented Bossier and Webster parishes. Judge Price died of complications from pneumonia. In addition to his second wife "Flo" Price, he was survived by four children, John Walker Price of Bossier City, Roger Ewing Price of Baton Rouge, Clayton Holt Price of Houston, Texas, and Kathy Price Rodgers of Southlake, a suburb of Fort Worth; stepson Walter O. Bigby, Jr., of Bossier City, and two Rodgers granddaughters.[2]
Judge Price is interred beside his first wife at the O. E. Price Memorial Cemetery in Logansport, which is named for Price's father.[5][6]
References
- ↑ O. E. Price Cemetery records do not list a "Katherine Holt" Price, but a "Gay Holt" Price (1879-1966) is recorded. This may be Judge Price's mother. She would have been forty-four years of age at his birth.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "O.E. Price obituary". Shreveport Times, February 24, 2006. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
- 1 2 "In Memoriam: O.E. Price". lasc.org. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
- ↑ "Humphrey, McClendon, Price Nominated", Minden Press, July 25, 1960, p. 1
- ↑ "O.E. Price Memorial Cemetery". files.usgwarchives.org. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
- ↑ Flo Price is interred beside her first husband, Judge Walter O. Bigby, at Hill Crest Cemetery in Haughton.