politician member of the Louisiana State Senate
He succeeded his father, Charles M. Poston, Senior, a one-term senator from 1960 to 1964. Poston was born in rural Benson in southern De Soto Parish to Charles M. Poston, Senior (1898–1968) and Marjorie A. Poston (1899–1995), both railroad employees.
He attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge before he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps, forerunner of the Air Force, during World World War World War II
Poston was reared in Hornbeck in Vernon Parish, a small town midway between Leesville, the seat of Vernon Parish, and Many, the seat of Sabine Parish. Poston was an aerial engineer gunner sergeant on a B-17 bomber. Just shy of his fortieth birthday, Poston was elected to the now District 30 Senate seat, which encompasses part of Calcasieu and Beauregard, Sabine, and Vernon parishes.
During his tenure, he served for sixteen years as chairman of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee and for eight years on the Senate Retirement Committee.
Poston did not seek an eighth term in the Senate in the nonpartisan blanket primary, or jungle primary, held on October 19, 1991. Instead, two Democratic state representatives from Beauregard Parish, Allen Bradley of DeRidder and James David Cain of Dry Creek competed for the post.
Cain defeated Bradley. Both later switched to Republican affiliation.
Bradley left politics, and Cain lost a special election in 2006 for Louisiana insurance commissioner.
He was term-limited in the 2007 primary for state senator Poston was a member, teacher, deacon, and Sunday school director of the First Baptist Church since April 15, 1957. He was affiliated with the Masonic lodge in Hornbeck for more than fifty years and of the Order of the Eastern Star chapter in Florien in Sabine Parish.
On June 5, 1943, Poston, at the age of nineteen, married then 16-year-old Judith M. Poston (born ca 1927).
Poston died of Alzheimer"s disease at Sabine Retirement and Rehabilitation Center in Many. Services were held on October 5, 2009, at Warren Meadows Funeral Home in Many, with the Reverend Wayne Chance and the Reverend Bill Hines officiating.
Interment was at Prewitt"s Chapel Cemetery in Hornbeck.
