Career
A native of Arkansas, Payne succeeded J. South. Bacon of Heflin in south Webster Parish but was unseated in the 1936 primary election by Drayton Boucher, a 28-year-old educator from Springhill in northern Webster Parish.
A native of Arkansas, Payne succeeded J. South. Bacon of Heflin in south Webster Parish but was unseated in the 1936 primary election by Drayton Boucher, a 28-year-old educator from Springhill in northern Webster Parish.
From 1912 to 1920, Payne was the Ward 2 member of the Webster Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body akin to the county commission in other states.