Editing Newellton, Louisiana (section)

==Notable people==
*[[Andrew F. Brimmer]] (1926-2012), economist and first African American to serve as governor of the [[Federal Reserve System]] who was born in Newellton
*[[Sarah Dorsey]], author, historian, and benefactor of [[Jefferson Davis]], lived at the Routh Plantation near Newellton in the early 1850s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site21.php|title=Dorsey, Sarah Anne Ellis|publisher=A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography (lahist.org)|access-date=December 16, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925003659/http://www.lahistory.org/site21.php|archive-date=September 25, 2016}}</ref>
*[[C.B. Forgotston]] (born in Newellton in 1945; died 2016) was a [[lawyer]] in [[Hammond, Louisiana|Hammond]] and a state [[government]] watchdog and [[political activist]]. Forgotston graduated from Newellton High School in 1962.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forgotston.com/2008/06/17/jindal-breaks-word-to-voters/|title=C.B. Forgotston biographical sketch|publisher=forgotston.com|access-date=January 23, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007002528/http://forgotston.com/2008/06/17/jindal-breaks-word-to-voters/|archive-date=October 7, 2008}}</ref> He was a frequent guest on ''The Moon Griffon Show'' radio talk program.
*[[Clyde V. Ratcliff]] (1879-1952), member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1944 to 1948; planter in Newellton<ref>Obituary of Clyde V. Ratcliff Sr., ''Tensas Gazette'', October 8, 1952</ref>
*[[Thomas M. Wade]] (1860-1929), member of Louisiana House of Representatives from 1888 to 1904, Louisiana State Board of Education, and Tensas Parish School Board; Tensas school superintendent for some twenty years after 1904<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0i5PAAAAMAAJ&q=thomas+m.+wade+of+tensas+parish&pg=PA102|title=Yearbook of American Clan Gregor Society, pp. 101-103|year=1916|publisher= [[Richmond, Virginia]]: Appeals Press, 1916, Egbert Watson Magruder, ed.|access-date=July 18, 2013}}</ref>