H. Flood Madison. Beginning the practice of law at Bastrop in 1891, Mr. H. Flood Madison, through a period of a third of a century accumulated creditable part of. the honors, responsibilities and successes of leadership in the professional, business and civic affairs of his community and parish. Frequently referred to as the most prominent citizen of Morehouse Parish, his prominence is based on solid character and an unselfish use of his opportunities and disinterested service. Mr. Madison was born at Oak Ridge in Morehouse Parish, in 1864, son of J. F. and Susan C. (Williams) Madison, and grandson of Col. James Madison of Farmville, Virginia. His father, J. F. Madison, was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, and from that state came into Louisiana in 1859, settling on a plantation at Oak Ridge, Morehouse Parish. It was in this parish that H. Flood Madison grew to manhood, attending the country schools and later the high school at Hamburg, Arkansas, and the Mississippi College at Clinton, where he was graduated in 1888. The winning of an education was by no means a matter of going to school with expenses paid from home. As a youth he began depending on his own exertions. After graduating from college he taught two years in the public schools of Louisiana. His law studies were pursued in Tulane University at New Orleans, and on graduating in 1891, he located at Bastrop. In the years since then, he has been honored with a successful law practice and some years ago took in his two sons as partners to share in the responsibilities of that extensive law business. Much of his practice has been concerned with important business and industrial interests. He has been president of the Bastrop State Bank since 1900. In 1924 this bank completed and occupied one of the finest banking buildings in Louisiana. Mr. Madison has been interested in politics entirely for the sake of such influence as he could render the cause of good government. He is a member of the State Board of Education; was a member of Constitutional Conventions of 1913 and 1921, for a long number of years has been chairman the Morehouse Parish Democratic Executive Committee. He has also to his credit a long service as a member of the Bastrop School Board and the Parish School Board. His has been a notable part in the activities that have within a few years made Bastrop one of the leading industrial centers of Louisiana, due largely to the happy location of the town in the center of a great natural gas field. The two most important industries at Bastrop are modern pulp mills manufacturing paper from wood pulp. Mr. Madison is the type of citizen who is invariably drafted to lead all important civic enterprises. He is a member of the Baptist Church. In 1894 he married Miss George Fulks, of Mississippi. She is a graduate of the Central Female Institute at Clinton. There are five children, all of whom have received liberal college and university educations: Mrs. D. I. Garrett, George T., H. Flood Madison, Jr.; H. W. Madison and Beryl. NOTE: The referenced source contains a black and white hotograph of the subject with his/her autograph. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 60-61, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.