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Carroll Buck

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Carroll Buck

Birth
Evergreen, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
14 Jun 1975 (aged 82)
Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Roseland, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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husband of Martina Hamilton Ellis

BUCK, Carroll, attorney, assistant attorney general. Born, Evergreen, La., August 28, 1893; son of William Powell Buck and Sarah Ann Cappel. Education: local schools; Louisiana State University, LL. B., 1917. Removed to Amite, La., 1917, and entered the law office of Bolivar E. Kemp, Sr. (q.v.); shortly thereafter became a partner. Appointed assistant to Louisiana attorney general, 1948. Remained in the attorney general's office until resignation, 1971. Member, Kappa Alpha Fraternity, Amite Rotary Club, a Master Mason of the Royal Arch Masons, Evergreen La. Chapter No. 189., chairman, Appeals Board of the Selective Service Board (World War II). Member, Louisiana Bar Association, the Twenty-First Judicial District Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Member, Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, Amite, La. Married Martina Hamilton Ellis, daughter of Robert S. Ellis, Sr. (q.v.), and Maud Addison Ellis. No children. Died, June 14, 1975; interred Ellis family graveyard, Amite, La. M.E.B. & C.B.W.P. Sources: La Commission des Avoyelles with Sue Eakin, Avoyelles, Crossroads of Louisiana … (1981); Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, Centennial, Official Souvenir Program, March 23-24, 1969; Personal Letters; Family Bible in possession of Robert Buck of Kinder, La.; family papers.
husband of Martina Hamilton Ellis

BUCK, Carroll, attorney, assistant attorney general. Born, Evergreen, La., August 28, 1893; son of William Powell Buck and Sarah Ann Cappel. Education: local schools; Louisiana State University, LL. B., 1917. Removed to Amite, La., 1917, and entered the law office of Bolivar E. Kemp, Sr. (q.v.); shortly thereafter became a partner. Appointed assistant to Louisiana attorney general, 1948. Remained in the attorney general's office until resignation, 1971. Member, Kappa Alpha Fraternity, Amite Rotary Club, a Master Mason of the Royal Arch Masons, Evergreen La. Chapter No. 189., chairman, Appeals Board of the Selective Service Board (World War II). Member, Louisiana Bar Association, the Twenty-First Judicial District Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Member, Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, Amite, La. Married Martina Hamilton Ellis, daughter of Robert S. Ellis, Sr. (q.v.), and Maud Addison Ellis. No children. Died, June 14, 1975; interred Ellis family graveyard, Amite, La. M.E.B. & C.B.W.P. Sources: La Commission des Avoyelles with Sue Eakin, Avoyelles, Crossroads of Louisiana … (1981); Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, Centennial, Official Souvenir Program, March 23-24, 1969; Personal Letters; Family Bible in possession of Robert Buck of Kinder, La.; family papers.


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