John D. Ewing
John Dunbrack Ewing, Sr. | |
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Born | conservative Ewing was a delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention which shattered precedent by nominating Franklin D. Roosevelt to a third term. | February 13, 1892
John Dunbrack Ewing, Sr. (February 13, 1892 – May 18, 1952), was a
In 1927, Ewing and former Shreveport mayor and businessman Andrew Querbes co-chaired a committee of prominent Shreveport citizens that began correspondence with the United States Department of War in Washington D. C. to sell Shreveport as the sight for a planned Army airfield that would serve as an expansion of the Third Attack Group, then located in Galveston, Texas. The group originally proposed land adjacent to Cross Lake but this location was deemed unsuitable by the War Department. Instead, approval was given for unincorporated land located in nearby Bossier Parish, which the City of Shreveport annexed through a municipal bond and donated to the federal government for construction of the facility, now known as Barksdale Air Force Base.[1]
References
- "John Dunbrack Ewing", A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. 1 (1988), p. 292
- Kathryn Hill, "Captain John D. Ewing: Civic Leader/Journalist," North Louisiana History, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Fall 2001), pp. 3–10
- "John D. Ewing Dies: Publisher in the South", New York Times, May 18, 1952, p. 92
- Margaret Martin, "Colonel Robert Ewing: Louisiana Journalist and Politician", (Master's thesis, 1964, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge)
- http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html
- Time (magazine)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110726005201/http://dunbrack.org/data/ps05/ps05_345.html
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- ISBN 9781455603862.