Bert Anthony Adams | |
Office: | Louisiana State Representative for Vernon Parish |
Term Start: | 1956 |
Term End: | 1968 |
Preceded: | F. E. Hernandez |
Succeeded: | Two-member district: E. Holman Jones Buddy Leach |
Birth Place: | DeRidder, Louisiana, U.S. |
Birth Date: | 23 October 1916 |
Resting Place: | Leesville Cemetery in Leesville, Louisiana |
Party: | Democratic |
Residence: | Leesville, Louisiana, U.S. |
Spouse: | Bernice Carnell Parker Adams |
Children: | Bert William "Skipper" Adams (deceased) Lynn Dell Pynes Gayle Shaw |
Branch: | Louisiana National Guard |
Battles: | World War II Korean War |
Bert Anthony Adams (October 23, 1916 - February 3, 2003) was a decorated war veteran who served from 1956 to 1968 as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Leesville in Vernon Parish in western Louisiana.[1]
Born in DeRidder in Beauregard Parish, Adams was a decorated United States Army veteran of World War II and the Korean War.[2]
Adams won his second term in the Democratic primary election held on December 5, 1959.[3]