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George Messenger Foote, Sr. (November 4, 1919 – June 21, 2010), was a 30-year city judge and civic figure in his native Alexandria, Louisiana.
Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state. It is the principal city of the Alexandria metropolitan area which encompasses all of Rapides and Grant parishes. Its neighboring city is Pineville. In 2010, the population was 47,723, an increase of 3 percent from the 2000 census.
Louisiana is a state in the Deep South region of the South Central United States. It is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties. The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans.
Background
Foote was one of two sons and two daughters of Henry Dade Foote, Sr. (1882-1941), and the former Lois Jeannette Ray (1886-1974), who resided in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, but moved to Alexandria prior to 1919. Lois Foote was a native of Americus in Sumter County in southwestern Georgia.[2] Foote's brother, Henry, Jr. (1912-1955), was born in Hattiesburg and died in Alexandria; a sister, Ray Foote Schlaben (1914-2006), was born in Hattiesburg and lived after her marriage in Edinburg in Hidalgo County in south Texas, where she is interred.[3][4]
Hattiesburg is a city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, primarily in Forrest County and extending west into Lamar County. The city population was 45,989 at the 2010 census, with an estimated population of 46,805 in 2015. It is the principal city of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses Forrest, Lamar and Perry counties.
Mississippi is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 34th most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and Louisiana to the west. The state's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Jackson, with a population of approximately 167,000 people, is both the state's capital and largest city.
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The obituary of his friend, former Alexandria MayorW. George Bowdon, Jr., indicates that Foote and Bowdon first met c. 1935, by which time Foote was a student at Bolton High School, from which he graduated in 1936, three years before Bowdon. Foote worked as a lifeguard during summers in the middle 1930s at Magnolia Park in southern Grant Parish north of Alexandria. According to copy desk editor Wallace Anthony (1936-2010) of The Alexandria Daily Town Talk, the chilly waters of Hudson Creek at Magnolia Park were dammed to form a large swimming pool. A bathhouse, snack bar, and as many as thirty summer houses were subsequently added. The park had shade from pine and beech trees. The pool had concrete walls. A wooden-gated dam included a large wooden water wheel placed as it developed for aesthetic reasons.[5] Foote is listed in the 1940 U.S. Census at the age of twenty, still single, as living in Alexandria.[6]
In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.
Bolton High School is a secondary educational institution located in the Garden District of Alexandria, the parish seat of Rapides Parish and the largest city in Central Louisiana. The school is named for its benefactor, James W. Bolton, an Alexandria banker who was one of the most prominent civic and political leaders of Central Louisiana during the first third of the 20th century.
A lifeguard is a rescuer who supervises the safety and rescue of swimmers, surfers, and other water sports participants such as in a swimming pool, water park, spa, beach or river. Lifeguards are strong swimmers and trained in CPR/AED first aid, certified in water rescue using a variety of aids and equipment depending on requirements of their particular venue. In some areas, lifeguards are part of the emergency services system to incidents and in some communities, the lifeguard service also carries out mountain rescues, or may function as the primary EMS provider.
Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts university in Lexington, Virginia. Established in 1749, the university is a colonial-era college and the ninth-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
Lexington is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 7,042. It is the county seat of Rockbridge County, although the two are separate jurisdictions. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Lexington with Rockbridge County for statistical purposes. Lexington is about 57 miles (92 km) east of the West Virginia border and is about 50 miles (80 km) north of Roanoke, Virginia. It was first settled in 1777.
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Legal career
Foote received his legal training after the war at Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans and was admitted to the practice of law in 1947. For three years he was a Rapides Parish assistant district attorney.[7] He became the full-time city judge in 1955, a post he held until 1985.[8] Judge Foote was particularly known for his commitment to juvenile justice and his role in the founding of the Renaissance Home for Youth, a juvenile offender facility located west of Alexandria.[8] Joining Foote in 1972 in co-founding the Renaissance Home were Guy E. Humphries, Jr., a Louisiana 9th Judicial District Court judge who died three months before Judge Foote, and Dr. Glenn Earl Bryant (1922–2003), a former pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in downtown Alexandria.[10]
An admission to practice law is acquired when a lawyer receives a license to practice law. In jurisdictions with two types of lawyer, as with barristers and solicitors, barristers must gain admission to the bar whereas for solicitors there are distinct practising certificates.
Rapides Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 131,613. The parish seat is Alexandria, which developed along the Red River of the South. Rapides is the French spelling of "rapids" and is pronounced ra-PEEDS. The parish was created in 1807 after the United States acquired this territory in the Louisiana Purchase.
The Renaissance Home for Youth is a criminal rehabilitation center and shelter care facility located near Alexandria, Louisiana, USA at 6177 Bayou Rapides Road in western Rapides Parish. The facility was co-founded in 1972 by Guy E. Humphries, Jr., a Ninth Judicial District Court judge, Dr. Glenn Earl Bryant (1922–2003), then the pastor of the large downtown Emmanuel Baptist Church, and George M. Foote, then the Alexandria municipal judge. The center is a non-profit corporation financed from mostly originally donated assets. The facility was established to meet the "need apparent for an alternative to adult jail or reform school warehousing for kids who deserved a second chance".
The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a mainline Protestant denomination and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a leader in evangelicalism. The present denomination was founded in 1968 in Dallas, Texas, by union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley in England, as well as the Great Awakening in the United States. As such, the church's theological orientation is decidedly Wesleyan. It embraces both liturgical and evangelical elements.
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Foote's widow is the former Antonia "Toni" Voelker, whose family in 1936 became the John Deere dealer in Alexandria.[11] The Footes resided on Georges Lane in the Alexandria Garden District. There are seven Foote children: Evelyn Neill Marriott (David); George M. Foote (Jane); Edward S. Foote; William Ross Foote (Elizabeth); A. Lee Foote (Naomi); R. Hale Foote (Beth); and Ray A. Foote (Diana). Foote's surviving sister is Jane Ann Foote Culpepper (born c. 1926), surviving widow of Judge William A. Culpepper[12] of Alexandria, who served one four-year term on the state 9th Judicial District Court and twenty-two years on the Louisiana Circuit Court of Appeal for the Third District, part of the time as chief judge. He also instituted the United Way of America in Alexandria and in 1973 chaired the Alexandria Charter Commission.[13]
Judge Foote also had twenty-eight surviving grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren.[8] The Footes' oldest child and only daughter, Neill, and her husband, David Cannon Marriott, are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Salt Lake City, Utah. They have ten children. An eleventh child, Judge Foote's namesake granddaughter, Georgia Marriott (1980-2002), was struck by a truck and killed while she was riding her bicycle near the Indiana University Bloomington campus, where she was studying violin.[14]
Foote's son, W. Ross Foote, served for thirteen years prior to 2004 on the Louisiana 9th Judicial District Court prior to returning to his Alexandria law firm, Smith Foote. Since 2010, Foote's wife, George Foote's daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Erny Foote, a native of Lafayette, Louisiana, is a judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, an appointee of U.S. PresidentBarack H. Obama sponsored by U.S. SenatorMary Landrieu. Prior to her appointment to the federal judiciary, Elizabeth Foote was engaged in the full-time practice of law as a partner at Smith Foote. From 1978 to 1979, she was a law clerk for Judge William Culpepper.[15]
Judge Foote was a close friend and Bolton classmate of Howard B. Gist, Jr., the Alexandria city attorney during three municipal administrations prior to 1973. Like Foote, Gist attendede Washington and Lee and the Tulane Law School. Both were veterans of the War in the Pacific but in different branches of the military. Both were avid fishermen and hunters in the community.[16][17]
Alexandria businessman Edwin Caplan said upon the news of Judge Foote's death at the age of ninety: "He made a difference in everything he did and every life he touched. [If one's] purpose in life was to set a good example ... George Foote certainly excels at that."[18]
↑ It is unclear if Judge Foote is related to the late southern author Shelby Foote, a native of Greenville, Mississippi. Shelby Foote had the middle name "Dade"; so did Shelby's father and Judge Foote's father. There was also a "George M. Foote" (1873-1935) who served prior to 1920 as the mayor of Gulfport, Mississippi.
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