Enoch T. Nix
Enoch Talton Nix was a banker and civic figure from Bossier City, Louisiana, who served for thirty years on the elected Louisiana State Board of Education and its successor organization established under the Louisiana State Constitution of 1974, the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Nix was born to Henry and Maude Nix in Jamestown in Bienville Parish. He had two sisters, Sybil Nix and Laura Nix Bell. Nix graduated from Castor High School in Castor under principal E. R. Minchew. He then received a bachelors degree in agriculture from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Upon graduation from LSU, he was accepted into flight school in the United States Navy. He received a commission in 1942 in the United States Marine Corps. He flew the F4U Corsair in the Pacific theater. At the conclusion of the war, Nix was assigned with units which patrolled the border of Nationalist China and the Soviet Union.
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