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U. S. Senator
1949 - 1987

John Holmes Overton, a United States Representative, May 12, 1931 to March 3, 1933 and then United States Senator from Louisiana, March 4, 1933 until his death on May 14, 1948. 

He was a native of Marksville, La, a graduate of Louisiana State University and earned a law degree from Tulane University.  He died in the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland and is buried with his wife Ada Ruth Dismukes, his parents and many of his family in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Pineville, Louisiana.

He was Huey Long's counsel in the impeachment action in 1929.

Mt. Olivet Cemetery

Pineville, Louisiana

John Holmes Overton
Sept. 17, 1875
May 14, 1948

United States Senator
March 4, 1933      May 14, 1948

Ruth Dismukes
Overton
Dec. 31, 1912
Aug. 27, 1973
(Wife of John Holmes Overton)

Thomas
Overton
Mar. 26, 1835
Aug. 14, 1913
(Father of John Holmes Overton)

Laura Waddill
Overton
Mar. 17, 1845
Oct. 27, 1937
(Mother of John Holmes Overton)

John Holmes
Overton Jr.
Feb. 7, 1915
Oct. 23, 1946

Mary E. Overton
Brazelton
Dec. 19, 1916
Sept.6, 1988
(Daughter of John Holmes Overton)

Elbert Colyar
Brazelton
Oct. 2, 1911
July 1, 2000
(Husband of Mary E. Overton)

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