Background
Pleasant, Ruffin Golson was born on June 2, 1871 in Shiloh, Louisiana, United States. Son of Benjamin Franklin and Martha Washington (Duty) Pleasant.
Pleasant Hill, the historic home of Governor and Mrs. Pleasant in the Highlands section of Shreveport
Pleasant, Ruffin Golson was born on June 2, 1871 in Shiloh, Louisiana, United States. Son of Benjamin Franklin and Martha Washington (Duty) Pleasant.
Ruston College, 1885. Mount Lebanon College, Louisiana, 1887-1888 and 1888-1889. Louisiana State University, 1890-1894.
Studied law Harvard and Yale.
Colonel 1st Louisiana Regiment Infantry, United States Volumes, Spanish-American War, 1898. Began practice, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1899. City attorney, Shreveport, 1902-1908.
Assistant attorney general, Louisiana, 1911-1912. Attorney general, June 1, 1912-1916. Governor of Louisiana, term 1916-1920.
By Christ living within, and by the powerful work of the Holy Spirit, people can inadequately yet genuinely love and live in the spirit of God’s commands.
Christians acting as the salt of the earth and the light of the world have a responsibility to engage their culture, including participating in the political process.
The sense of being connected is how the Church as a whole should be structured. At its heart is an understanding of the Christian community as the 'body of Christ '.
Married Anne Ector, February 14, 1906.