High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Harmon Drew, Sr. (February 5, 1917 ? December 18, 1995) was a fourth generation judge and a former Democratic state representative who was descended from pioneer families of Webster Parish in north Louisiana. The first Drew in the area, Newitt Drew, a Welshman who was born in Virginia in 1772, established a grist mill on Dorcheat Bayou in the early 1800s in what became the former community of Overton. Drew's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all held judicial positions in either the city of Minden, or Webster and surrounding parishes. His son, Richard Harmon Drew, Jr. (born 1946), of Minden is currently serving a 10-year term on the Second Circuit Court of Appeal, based in Shreveport.