James Edwin Bolin Sr. (August 26, 1914 – March 25, 2002) was an American

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and

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who served as a judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal. He was a Democratic member of the

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from

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, the

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in northwestern

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Legislator and soldier

Bolin was elected state representative when the one-term incumbent, Drayton Boucher of Springhill, ran successfully for the

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. 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).

Judicial career

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.

Honors

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

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installation at

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, formerly part of the

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References

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