Hundley, Allen Van Horn

Submitted by Mike Miller

Allen Van Horn Hundley, clerk of Court of Rapides Parish, is a lawyer by profession, and has many of the professional and civic qualities that made his father a man of such importance in central Louisiana for many years.

Allen Van Horn Hundley was born at New Orleans June 21, l887, son of Allen B. and Addie B. (Van Horn) Hundley, his mother a native of New Orleans while his father was born in Union Parish. His father attended public schools, read law in private offices and graduated from the law department of Tulane University. For sixteen years he was an active attorney at Columbia, and in 1908 moved to Alexandria where he continued to practice until his death oil July 9, 1921. He held many offices, being assessor, clerk of court, superintendent of schools and for three terms district attorney. He was a democrat, a deacon in the Methodist Church. Mrs. Hundley died in New Orleans October 2, 1924. Of their four children, Allen Van Horn is the second.

Allen Van Horn Hundley spent most of his boyhood rears in Columbia, where he attended public schools. His education was continued in Soulé College at New Orleans in Louisiana State University, and through a commercial course at Tyler, Texas. For six years he was employed in the county clerk's office, and at the same time carried on his law studies, being admitted to the bar in 1922. From 1920 to 1924 Mr. Hundley held the office of city judge of Alexandria, and in January, 1924, was elected clerk of court, an office to which he has since given all his time.

He married in August, 1920, Bert Ethel Brasher, a native of Rapides Parish. They have one son, Allen V., Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Hundley are members of the Methodist Church. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and is Past Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan.

NOTE: The referenced source contains a black and white photograph of the subject with his/her autograph.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 247-248, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.