Dayton Waller

Dayton Hollis Waller, Jr. , was a farmer and businessman from Shreveport, Louisiana, who was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He served a single term with six other atlarge members from 1968 until 1972.

Waller was born in Shreveport to Dayton Waller, Sr. , a native of Haynesville in Claiborne Parish in North Louisiana, and his wife, the former Elisabeth Lane , the fourth of five children of Shreveport industrialist Charles W. Lane, Sr., and the former Addie Noel. Charles Lane, the grandfather of Dayton Waller, Jr., was orphaned at thirteen. Selfeducated, he became the owner of the GiddensLane Company, a bank director, an appointee of the Caddo Levee Board, and later established the Charles W. Lane Company. The Lane Company is engaged in the management of commercial real estate development, agricultural lands, and petroleum and natural gas holdings. For years the firm was managed by E. Alton Sartor, Jr., another grandson of Charles W. Lane and hence a cousin of Dayton Waller, Jr. Sartors wife, Jean Oliver Sartor, was an artist in Shreveport.

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