J. C. Seaman

Who is J. C. Seaman?

Joseph Carryl Seaman, Sr., known as J.C. Seaman, was a five-term member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Waterproof in Tensas Parish in northeast Louisiana, having served from 1944-1964.

During his tenure as representative, Lake Bruin State Park, originally established in 1928 as a fish hatchery, opened near St. Joseph on Lake Bruin, an oxbow lake of the Mississippi River.

A native of Waterproof, Seaman was the son of Horace P. Seaman, a federal employee on the Mississippi River levee system, and the former Pearl Davidson. He graduated from the since defunct Waterproof High School, as did both of his sons. He was drafted into the United States Army near the end of World War I and hence never served in hostilities. Seaman was an insurance agent and banker with the former Bank of St. Joseph in Waterproof, now Cross Keys Bank, located near the Waterproof Town Hall.

Seaman was first married to the former Evie Hinton Greaves, and the couple had one son, J. C. Seaman, Jr.. Evie was a daughter of the former Elizabeth R. "Vardie" Pitchford and Harry Percy "Hal" Greaves, a physician and the mayor of Waterproof from 1913-1924. Evie Seaman died two months prior to her son's second birthday.