:Clyde C. Holloway

Clyde was born to James and Ever Holloway as the fourth of seven children. In 1968, he started the Clyde Holloway Nursery with his wife, Catherine K. Holloway.{{Cite web |date=October 18, 2016 |title=Memorial arrangements for Clyde C. Holloway |url=https://www.kalb.com/content/news/Memorial-arrangements-for-Clyde-C-Holloway-397517661.html |access-date=2022-06-04 |publisher=KALB-TV |language=en}} The couple also operated the Forest Hill Speedway for over two decades.

Holloway first gained public attention in 1980, when he led an anti-bussing movement in Rapides Parish, opposing a federal court's desegregation order. He led a group of white parents who seized a local elementary school that was set to be shuttered and operated it for their children.{{cite news |title=Parents defy court |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-crescent/164268930/ |access-date=30 January 2025 |work=The Post-Crescent |date=16 September 1980 |pages=2}} Holloway told reporters that he doubted federal judge Nauman Scott "would send federal marshals" to empty the building. Prompted by local support, Holloway launched his first campaign for Congress, losing to incumbent Gillis Long by more than 40 percentage points.{{cite news |last1=Morgan |first1=Robert |title=Holloway Says He's Not A 'One-Issue Candidate' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-town-talk/164269683/ |access-date=30 January 2025 |work=The Town Talk |date=28 August 1980 |pages=42}}

Holloway faced pushback for a public forum at which he said he would no longer urge his followers to remain calm: "If they want to burn [schools], let them go. We don't have anything left so let them do it."{{cite news |title=Long to intervene |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-town-talk/164270084/ |access-date=30 January 2025 |work=The Town Talk |date=9 August 1980 |pages=2}} The local daily, The Town Talk, called it a "betrayal" of his supporters and that Holloway had given "his personal go-ahead Friday night to those who think the torching of school buildings is the best solution to the desegregation mess."{{cite news |title=Holloway's Betrayal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-town-talk/164270269/ |access-date=30 January 2025 |work=The Town Talk |date=12 August 1980 |pages=6}}

After failing to stop the desegregation order, Holloway and his wife launched the Forrest Hill Academy, a segregation academy, in protest and ran it until its closure in 2004.{{cite news |last1=Peters |first1=Emily |title=Forest Hill school to close; Academy wracked by financial crisis; Friday last day |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-town-talk/164269137/ |access-date=30 January 2025 |work=The Town Talk |date=8 January 2004 |pages=1}}{{Cite web |title=Clyde C. Holloway Obituary (1943–2016) The Town Talk |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/thetowntalk/name/clyde-holloway-obituary?id=11386648 |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=Legacy.com}}

Holloway won election to Louisiana's 8th congressional district as a Republican, and was re-elected two more times before being redistricted to the 6th district and losing re-election. Holloway won the first round of votes against Richard Baker, but lost in the runoff with 49.4% of the vote to Baker's 50.6%. He was a candidate for Governor in the 1991 jungle primary, ultimately running a distant fourth behind Governor Buddy Roemer, State Representative and former Ku Klux Klan wizard David Duke, and the ultimate winner, former Governor Edwin Edwards.

Holloway served as a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission since 2009 and was its chairman at the time of his death. He was buried with a memorial arrangement at Forest Hill Town Hall.

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