Office: | Louisiana State Representative for Webster Parish |
Term Start: | 1940 |
Term End: | 1944 |
Preceded: | Drayton R. Boucher |
Succeeded: | C.W. Thompson |
Office2: | District Attorney, 26th Judicial District of Louisiana |
Term Start2: | December 14, 1948 |
Term End2: | October 1, 1952 |
Preceded2: | Arthur M. Wallace |
Succeeded2: | Louis H. Padgett, Jr. |
Office3: | Judge, 26th Judicial District Court of Louisiana |
Term Start3: | October 1, 1952 |
Term End3: | 1960 |
Preceded3: | J. Frank McInnis |
Succeeded3: | Two judgeships: O. E. Price Enos C. McClendon, Jr. |
Office4: | Judge, Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal |
Term Start4: | 1960 |
Term End4: | 1978 |
Preceded4: | New position |
Office5: | Chief Judge, Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal |
Term Start5: | April 25, 1975 |
Term End5: | December 31, 1978 |
Preceded5: | H. Welborn Ayres |
Birth Date: | 26 August 1914 |
Birth Place: | Doyline, Webster Parish, Louisiana, USA |
Death Place: | Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana |
Spouse: | Mary Eloise Martin Bolin (1913-2007; married 1937-his death) |
Children: | James Bolin, Jr. Bruce M. Bolin Beth Bolin Falk Becky Bolin Maupin |
Party: | Democrat |
Occupation: | Attorney |
Residence: | Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana |
Alma Mater: | Minden High School Louisiana State UniversityLouisiana State University Law Center |
James Edwin Bolin Sr. (August 26, 1914 - March 25, 2002) was an American jurist and politician who served as a judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal. He was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Minden, the seat of government of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
Bolin was elected state representative when the one-term incumbent, Drayton Boucher of Springhill, ran successfully for the Louisiana State Senate. In the legislative runoff election, Bolin defeated former representative and Minden mayor J. Frank Colbert, 3,161 (57.3 percent) to 2,358 (42.7 percent).[1]
In 1956, Bolin defeated State Representative E. D. Gleason of Webster Parish, 2,503 to 912, for a seat at the proposed state constitutional convention. Because voters statewide rejected the calling of the convention, the election was moot.[2]
Bolin died in 2002 at the age of eighty-seven in an assisted living facility in Shreveport. He is honored through the naming of Bolin Hall at the Louisiana Army National Guard installation at Camp Minden, formerly part of the Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant.[3]