J. Frank Colbert

Jefferson Franklin Colbert, known as J. Frank Colbert , was a Democratic politician and Georgist. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1920 to 1925 and from 1944 to 1946 as the mayor of the small city of Minden, the seat of government of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.

Colbert was born in Webster Parish to John A. Colbert and his third wife, the former Sarah Eliza Taylor. The senior Colbert was from 1892 to 1896 the Webster Parish clerk of court, an elected position. Colbert attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. He was editor of the defunct The Minden Democrat newspaper and another former publication, The SignalTribune, forerunner of the current Minden PressHerald. At the time of his death, he was engaged in the real estate business.

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