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The City Hall building during the administration of Mayor P. Elmo Futrell Jr., now houses the only museum in Louisiana dedicated to municipal government.
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Futrell was born in Pollock in Grant Parish north of Pineville to Perry Futrell Sr. (1891–1986), and the former Amanda N. "Mandy" Willett (1890–1977). In the 1930 U.S. Census, the Futrells were living in Catahoula Parish. [3] Futrell was living with his parents and two younger siblings in Dry Prong in Grant Parish at the time of the 1940 U.S. Census.[4]
Pollock is a small town in Grant Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 469 as of the 2010 census, up from 376 in 2000. Pollock and southern Grant Parish have been experiencing residential and business growth in recent years. The population of Pollock increased between the 2000 and 2010 censuses as a result of the annexation of the land surrounding a federal prison, the United States Penitentiary, Pollock.
Grant Parish is a parish located in the North Central portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,309. The parish seat is Colfax. The parish was founded in 1869.
Catahoula Parish is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,407. Its seat is Harrisonburg, on the Ouachita River. The parish was formed in 1808, shortly after the United States acquired this territory in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
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Futrell did appraisal work for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. In 1975, in a suit regarding five acres of property off U.S. Highway 71 northwest of Campti in Natchitoches Parish, the state sought to declare Futrell as an expert appraiser. The trial judge immediately agreed that Futrell had the qualifications to appraise the property: "I don't want to cut you short, but Mr. Futrell has been qualified numerous times in this court and I would be willing to accept him on the basis of what I already know about him."[6]
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Campti is a town in the northern part of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,057 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Natchitoches Micropolitan Statistical Area. Campti is a flat area of mostly farmland. It sets on the eastern bank of the Red River. Considerable cattle are also raised in the general area.
Term as mayor
In the Democratic primary elections held on April 7, 1962, Futrell unseated the one-term Mayor George B. Hoffman[7] (May 16, 1910 – January 14, 2000),[8][9] previously the city marshal and a Methodist layman. Hoffman's wife, the former Lorraine Carmen Barron (1911-1996), was the organist at the First United Methodist Church of Pineville.[10]
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.
In 1963, after less than a year in office, Futrell and the five-member city council faced a recall attempt after Pineville police began the shooting on sight of stray dogs because of several instances of dog bites. The petition signers also objected to the city having initiated a street improvement campaign which charged residents directly for the costs of paving. Johnnie A. Mounce, who owned seven dogs and operated an outboard motor business, launched a petition to remove the officials. "It's awful the way they’ve been running down and shooting dogs in streets and in yards. They’ve already hit one child. And then, they're forcing people to pay for paving their streets. People who can't pay can lose their homes. I just don’t think it's right. So I’m trying to call for another election," Mounce said. Futrell said that the law calling for the shooting of stray dogs has been on the books for years but rarely previously enforced. Futrell ordered the crackdown but stressed only dogs whose owners could not be located or those animals which could not be caught were being shot.[11]
A recall election is a procedure by which, in certain polities, voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended. Recalls, which are initiated when sufficient voters sign a petition, have a history dating back to ancient Athenian democracy and feature in several current constitutions. In indirect or representative democracy, people's representatives are elected and these representatives rule for a specific period of time. However, where the facility to recall exists, should any representative come to be perceived as not properly discharging their responsibilities, then they can be called back with the written request of specific number or proportion of voters.
In 1964, his third year in office, Futrell was named "Mayor of the Year" by the Louisiana Municipal Association.[12] Despite weathering the recall attempt and "Mayor of the Year" honors, Futrell was narrowly unseated in the Democratic primary election in the spring of 1966 by his fellow Democrat, Floyd W. Smith Jr., a native of Winnfield.[2] After a single term as mayor, Smith was succeeded in 1970 by Fred Baden, who held the post for twenty-eight consecutive years.
Family life
Futrell, who was of German descent,[13] was married to the former Mildred Russell (1921-2011), a native of Jena in La Salle Parish, whom he met at Northwestern State University. After his death, she left Pineville to live in Baton Rouge.[14] The couple had two sons, Ronnie Elmo Futrell (1949-2015), a Louisiana College graduate and warden at Work Training Facility-North, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Gay Sontag;[15] and Russell W. Futrell (born 1953) of Baton Rouge, who was in Saudi Arabia at the time of his father's death. Their daughter, Sandra Gail Futrell Kirkpatrick (born 1945) of Baton Rouge, is the widow of Thomas Killgore Kirkpatrick (1944–2009), a son of political figures Claude and Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick. The couple married in 1965 at the First Baptist Church of Pineville.[16]
Futrell had two surviving sisters, Pauline F. Cain and Gladys F. Morrison, both of Pineville, and five grandchildren.[1] Grandson William Marshall "Bill" Futrell (1972-2009), one of two sons of Ronnie and Elizabeth Futrell, a veteran of the Louisiana National Guard, and a law enforcement officer, died in Pineville at the age of thirty-seven.[17]
Futrell was a deacon at the First Baptist Church of Pineville, often considered the home church for Louisiana College. He died in Dallas, Texas, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, then known as Zale Lipshy University Hospital. Perry and Mildred Futrell are interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Ball north of Pineville.[1]
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