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Richard Harmon Drew, Sr. (February 5, 1917 – December 18, 1995), was a fourth generation judge and a Democratic state representative who was descended from pioneer families of Webster Parish in North Louisiana. The first Drew in the area, Newett Drew (born in 1772 in Virginia), established a grist mill on Dorcheat Bayou in 1818 in what became the former community of Overton, subsequently obliterated by yellow fever. Drew's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all held judicial positions in either the city of Minden, or Webster and surrounding parishes. His son, Richard Harmon Drew, Jr., of Minden is currently serving his second 10-year term on the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal, based in Shreveport.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Drew Family )〕 ==Education and early years== Drew was born in Minden to Circuit Judge Harmon Caldwell Drew and the former Annie Lucile Grigsby (March 25, 1890 – August 10, 1974). His mother was born in Dubberly in south Webster Parish, the daughter of Dr. Samuel M. Grigsby (1860-1892) and the former Mary Elizabeth Myers (1860-1941), but had lived in Minden she was a two-year-old. Drew's paternal grandfather was Judge Richard Cleveland Drew. His great-grandfather, Richard Maxwell Drew, died at the age of twenty-eight but had been a district judge and state representative from 1848 to 1850. Harmon Drew, Sr., graduated in 1933 from Minden High School. He attended the former Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri. He then obtained his bachelor's degree from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish. In August 1936, young Drew was accidentally shot while fly-fishing with a friend on Dorcheat Bayou west of Minden. The wound required an operation for full recovery.〔"Drew (), shot accidentally yesterday", ''Minden Herald'', August 28, 1936, p. 1〕 Drew graduated from the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge and was admitted to the bar in 1941. Thereafter, he was a sergeant with the United States Army Air Corps, specifically the 13th Air Force Service Command, during World War II. He was stationed in the southwest Pacific Theater. After military service, Drew served simultaneously from 1945 to 1948 as the Minden city attorney and the assistant district attorney under D. A. Arthur M. Wallace, Sr., of Benton for the 26th Judicial District (Webster and Bossier parishes). In 1952, a Cadillac driven by the singer Lefty Frizzell crashed into the Drew home on Elm Street while Frizzell was speeding through Minden. Harmon Drew, Jr., recalls that his father always thought Frizzell, a native of Corsicana, Texas, had a "bad attitude".〔Judge Harmon Drew, Jr., to Earlene Mendenhall Lyle, Lyle newsletter, May 4, 2008〕 In 1975, fire engulfed the Drew home, and Representative Drew and his first wife narrowly averted death though the rescue efforts of Minden firefighters.〔''Minden Press-Herald'', December 12, 1975, p. 1〕 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「R. Harmon Drew, Sr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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