Background
Sockrider was born to the former Myrtle Bell Clark and Guy William Sockrider, Senior He graduated in 1938 from Jennings High School.
Sockrider was born to the former Myrtle Bell Clark and Guy William Sockrider, Senior He graduated in 1938 from Jennings High School.
Not related to the Guy Sockrider, a chef in New Orleans
He represented all or parts of Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis parishes in the southwestern portion of his state. In 1942, Sockrider enlisted in the United States Army and was assigned to the 89th Infantry Division. He advanced from second lieutenant, to first lieutenant, and captain.
He was honorably discharged into the United States Army Reserve.
Sockrider worked ceaselessly from the age of twelve until his death at the age of eighty-nine. In 1949, he established Industrial Construction Company.
In 1989, he launched the non-unionized IMTC and served as its chief executive officer In the state Senate, Sockrider served under Governors Earl Kemp Long (two terms), Robert F. Kennon, and Jimmie Davis.
He sat on the Senate Finance Committee and chaired the industrial relations committee.
He worked to upgrade McNeese State University in Lake Charles from a junior college affiliated with Louisiana State University to its own four-year institution. He worked to build the West. O. Moss Regional Hospital, a charity hospital in Lake Charles. Sockrider pushed for the establishment of the stadium for the McNeese State Cowboys football team
Foreign eight years, he chaired the Louisiana Legislative Council.
Sockrider died at a hospital in Lake Charles.