J. C. Gilbert
Jess Carr "Sonny" Gilbert, II (born March 6, 1922), is a retired cotton farmer and a former Democratic member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from the town of Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish in northeastern Louisiana. Gilbert served three consecutive terms in the Louisiana State Senate from 1960 to 1972, having represented Franklin, Richland, and Catahoula parishes.
In 1972, he was elected for a single four-year term to the Louisiana House of Representatives from newly established District 21 (Catahoula and neighboring Concordia parishes). Gilbert was allied with the anti-Long faction in the legislature. During the 1980s, as a retired lawmaker and a political conservative, Gilbert switched his party registration to Republican.
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“It’s true I’ve got no shirts to wear;
It’s true my butcher’s bill is due;
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—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)