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This week’s Cass County Pioneer is from the political realm. Clyde Edward Fant, Sr. was born in Linden October 18, 1905. He graduated from Marshall College (now East Texas Baptist University) in 1925. After a brief stint in teaching, he worked for a lumber company and later joined Southwestern Gas and Electric Company. His career in the utility sector led him to Shreveport, where he became an executive with Interstate Electric Company. Fant’s political career began when he was appointed Shreveport’s Public Utilities Commissioner in 1944. In 1946, he was elected mayor, serving until 1954. After a four-year hiatus, during which he managed an insurance agency, he was re-elected in 1958 and served until 1970. His twenty-year tenure remains the longest in Shreveport’s history.

The History of Cass County,

Acts 8:26 - And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza which is desert. 27: And he arose and went and behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem for worship. 28: Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. 29: Then the Spirit said unto Philip, go near, and join thyself to this chariot. 30: And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? 31. And he said, how can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. 38: And he commanded the chariot to stand still and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch and he baptized him.