1925 Biography - Tandy T. Webb

Hon. Tandy Tatum Webb, for three terms a member of the Legislature from Ouachita Parish, is a veteran business man of Monroe, where his name has been prominently associated with real estate transactions for over a quarter of a century.

Mr. Webb was born in Barbour County, Alabama, November 4, 1857, son of Dr. I. P. and Fannie (Bonnell) Webb. It was in the Bonnell home, among his mother's people, that Mr. Webb was born. His father's home at that time was across time river in Muskogee County, Georgia, near Columbus. Dr. I. P. Webb was gifted with various talents. Removing to Louisiana with his family in 1858, he first located about nine miles north of Coushatta, in what is now Red River Parish, then a part of Natchitoches Parish. While there he organized a company and went into Confederate service, participating in the Red River campaign, and was at time battles of Pleasant Hill and Mansfield. After time war he chose as his home place old Sparta, then the parish scat of Bienville Parish. In addition to the practice of medicine he conducted a plantation and a mercantile business and exercised a noteworthy influence in the affairs of his district. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1879, a member of the Legislature, was president of the parish police jury and parish school board, and was chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee. Doctor Webb died in 1913.

Tandy Tatum Webb was an infant when his parents came to Louisiana. His school education was acquired at Sparta, Homer and Mount Lebanon. Leaving Sparta, he located at Minden, in Webster Parish, and was a citizen there about fifteen years. During that time he was for four years parish assessor.

Since coming to Monroe, in 1898, Mr. Webb has been engaged in the real estate business. That has been his principal occupation, but he is perhaps best known in the parish for his long continued and able service in the Legislature. He was three times elected to represent Ouachita Parish in the House of Representatives, in 1916, 1920 and 1924. He has been a student of the legislative program and of the best interests of his parish and state, and has given time to his duties that meant the sacrifice of his pecuniary interests and home, in the session of 1924 he was chairman of time committee on contingent expenses. This gave him an opportunity to exercise his studied policy of enforcing strict economy in all matters of state government. He blocked many proposals for useless and extravagant expenditure in many bills that were considered by this committee. He was also a member of the committees on municipal corporations, parochial affairs, pensions and militia,

Mr. Webb married Miss Florence Wilkins of Minden, La. They have two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Bubb and Miss Carol O. Webb.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, volume 2, page 230.