On his 25th birthday in 1891 , Elam married the former Lucy Belle Burden , daughter of John Charles and Emma Gertrude Barbee Burden of Baton Rouge . The couple had three children , Charles Wheaton , Jr. ( b. 1892 ) , Daniel ( b. 1898 ) , and Emma Gertrude ( 1900-1972 ) . From 1892 to 1896 , Elam served a single term in the Louisiana House of Representatives . During the American Civil War , his father had been the House Speaker and was thereafter a two-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana 's 4th congressional district . From 1904 to 1910 , Charles Elam was a member of the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors , in which capacity he worked for the establishment of the Louisiana State University Law Center . He was a delegate to the 1909 Louisiana state constitutional convention and to the 1912 Democratic National Convention , which nominated the Wilson-Marshall ticket . Elam was state counsel for the Kansas City Southern Railway
1912 Democratic National Convention
1912 Democratic National Convention
Charles Wheaton Elam