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Richard Harmon Drew, Jr. (born November 11, 1946), is a Louisiana fifth-generation judge, legal lecturer, and rhythm-and-blues musician. He is serving a second 10-year term (first elected 1998) on his state's Second Circuit Court of Appeal, based in Shreveport. ==Ancestry== Drew is a native of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, where he and his wife, the former Jean Talley, reside in the Drew ancestral home at 1002 Broadway Street. The home was built by the Minden businessman and later city council member William L. Life (1887–1972) and was acquired about 1915 by Drew's paternal grandfather. Drew's father, R. Harmon Drew, Sr., grandfather Harmon Caldwell Drew, great-grandfather Richard Cleveland Drew, and great-great-grandfather Richard Maxwell Drew, all held judgeships in Minden and Webster or surrounding parishes. The Drew family, under its patriarch, Newett Drew, settled Webster Parish about the Overton community in 1818, prior to the establishment of either the parish or the city of Minden.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Drew Family )〕 Drew is also a great-grandson of Samuel Mays Grigsby, a physician who died of pneumonia in 1892 at the age of thirty-two. Dr. Grigsby was from 1891 until his death the coroner of Webster Parish.〔List of Webster Parish Coroners, ''Webster Parish Centennial Booklet, 1871", Webster Parish Police Jury publication〕 Dr. Thomas Drew Carey (born 1947), a dermatologist from Ruston, another great-grandson of Dr. Grigsby and a cousin of Judge Harmon Drew, Jr., has in his possession Grigsby's diploma, graduation invitation, and scalpel. Grigsby graduated in 1887 from Alabama Medical College in Mobile, Alabama. The Grigsbys resided on Main Street near the Webster Parish Library in a house still standing. Mrs. Grigsby, Dr. Carey's great-grandmother, exchanged houses thereafter with Sam Webb, the founder of a since defunct Minden hardware store, operated for years by the aforementioned Will Life.〔Statement of Dr. Thomas Carey, Ruston, Louisiana, December 21, 2010〕 Drew was born to Richard Harmon Drew, Sr. (1917–1995), and the former Margaret Taylor Elam (1919–1977), a native of Mansfield in De Soto Parish who grew up in Shreveport and Baton Rouge. Margaret Drew was a direct descendant of U.S. President Zachary Taylor through Taylor's son, Confederate General Richard Taylor. Mrs. Zachary Taylor was also named Margaret.〔''Minden Herald'' and ''Webster Review'', May 2, 1957, p.8〕 Margaret Drew's paternal grandfather was Joseph Barton Elam, Sr., the first mayor of Mansfield, a state representative, and a U.S. representative. Her uncle, Charles Wheaton Elam, was also a state representative and a founder of the Louisiana State University Law Center. Margaret and Harmon Drew, Sr., were married in an Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge on Pearl Harbor Day 1940, exactly a year before the attack on the United States. Drew and his two sisters, Elizabeth Weaver and Caldwell Colvin, were reared, like their mother, as Episcopalians. The senior Drew, however, retained Presbyterian affiliation. Harmon and Jean Drew are members of St. John's Episcopal Church near their home though Jean was reared as a Methodist. In 1952, while speeding through Minden, the singer Lefty Frizzell, originally from Corsicana, Texas, crashed his Cadillac into the Drew home. Drew, Jr., slept through the mishap, but he recalls that his father having always thought that Frizzell had a "bad attitude"."〔Judge Harmon Drew, Jr., to Earlene Mendenhall Lyle, Lyle newsletter, May 4, 2008〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harmon Drew, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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