Burgess McCranie

Burgess Edmond McCranie, Sr. (September 17, 1905 - December 31, 1977), was a government official who, among other positions, served from 1953 to 1957 as the seventh mayor of Bossier City, the sister city to Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana and the ninth largest city in the state, as of the 2010 U.S. census.
A Democrat as have been all but one mayor of Bossier City, McCranie was the first mayor under the city commission government, which was disbanded after twenty-four years, effective in 1977in favor of the mayor-council format.
Biography
McCranie was the fourth of five children born in Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish to Thomas Kenton McCranie (1847-1914) and the former Viola Varina Wise (1861-1927).
McCranie succeeded Hoffman L. Fuller, whose tenure as mayor began in 1937.In 1956, Mayor McCranie was elected by his colleagues as vice-president of the Louisiana Municipal Association for the .
In 1961, four years after his single term as mayor had ended, McCranie became the executive director of the Federal Housing Commission in Bossier Parish. He also served as a Bossier Parish deputy under Sheriff Willie Waggonner. He was elected to the Bossier Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body, akin to the county commission in most other states. had two sons, Burgess E. McCranie, Jr. (born 1940), an attorney in New Orleans, and James Broussard McCranie (born 1952) of Bossier City, and three daughters, Sarah M. Polton (born 1943), wife of Richard Polton of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Judy McCranie (born 1947), formerly Judy Hughes, and Mrs. Tommie Sue Walker (born 1941), wife of Thomas Walker, both of Bossier City. The McCranies died eight months apart; they are interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref namebio/><ref namemphm/>

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