James R. Eubank

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James Rowland Eubank
Louisiana State Representative for Rapides Parish
In office
May 1952 – November 9, 1952
Preceded byLawrence T. Fuglaar


Succeeded byLloyd George Teekell
Personal details
Born(1914-12-08)December 8, 1914
DiedNovember 9, 1952 (aged 37)
Alexandria, Louisiana, US
Resting placeGreenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, Louisiana
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)Katherine Bringhurst Eubank
Relations (maternal grandfather)
Children2
ResidenceAlexandria, Louisiana
Alma materLouisiana State University Law Center
OccupationLawyer
Military service
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
Battles/warsWorld War II

James Rowland Eubank (December 8, 1914 – November 9, 1952) was a lawyer from Alexandria, Louisiana, who served for six months during 1952 in the Louisiana House of Representatives for Rapides Parish.[1] He died in office at the age of thirty-seven from a heart attack.[2]

Eubank was a floor leader for Governor .[2] He was succeeded in the House by Lloyd George Teekell, another Alexandria lawyer who won a special election in 1953 to fill the remaining three years of Eubank's term.[1]

Eubank and his wife, the former Katherine Bringhurst, had two children, Robert Benjamin Eubank (born 1942) and Elizabeth Tracy Eubank (born August 1943).[2] Eubank was a maternal grandson of , a timber businessman in Pollock and Alexandria, who represented Grant Parish in the Louisiana House from 1904 to 1908. He was a descendant of the Lee family of Virginia. His middle name is derived from his great-grandmother, Martha Roland Lee, spelled without the "w".[3]

Eubank served in the United States Army during World War II. He is interred alongside his parents at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, Louisiana.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012" (PDF). house.louisiana.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 6, 2014. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d "James Rowland Eubank". Baton Rouge Advocate. November 10, 1952.
  3. ^ "Col. Stephen R. Lee of Alexandria Dies at His Home Feb. 13: Industrial and Political Leader, Descendant of Famous Lees". Winnfield News-American. Winnfield, Louisiana. February 22, 1929. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
Preceded by Louisiana State Representative for Rapides Parish
James Rowland Eubank
(alongside and H. N. Goff)
May 1952–November 1952 		Succeeded by


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