Robert Stephen Ellis

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ELLIS, Robert Stephen, Sr., jurist, businessman. Born, Amite, La., June 20, 1871; son of Thomas Cargill Warner Ellis and Martina Virginia Hamilton Ellis. Education: Staunton Military Academy, Virginia; Centenary College, Jackson, La.; and Tulane University, 1894. Member, Kappa Sigma fraternity. Admitted to the state bar, 1894; practiced law for two years in New Orleans; removed to Amite, La., practiced law. District attorney, 1900-1908; resigned to become judge of the then Twenty-first Judicial District, comprising the parishes of St. Helena, Livingston, and Tangipahoa; served four terms in this office. Member of the Democratic Committee, and in 1922, unsuccessful candidate for judgeship of the Louisiana Supreme Court. Married, June 17, 1896, Maud Sands Addison of Amite. Children: Robert, Jr. (q.v.), Lloyd, Martina, Maud, Heloise, and May. Member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, served as a steward. During World War I, chairman of the Legal Advisory Board of Tangipahoa Parish; vice-president of the Fluker Realty Company, Fluker, La.; president of the Amite City Gravel and Sand Company. Member of Amite City Lodge No. 175, Free and Accepted Masons, a past master; St. Helena, Chapter No. 43, Royal Arch Masons, a past highpriest, and Kenneth Commandery No. 9, Knights Templar, Hammond, La. Member, Dixie Camp, No. 119, Sons of the Confederate Veterans, and an ex-officio member of the Louisiana State Bar Association. Died, July 24, 1945; interred Ellis family graveyard, Amite, La. M.E.B. Sources: Henry E. Chambers, History of Louisiana, II, (1925); James M. Thomson, Louisiana Today (1939); Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana Centennial, Official Souvenir Program, March 23-24, 1969; Ellis family papers.