Louis P. Cashman Sr. succeeded his father as publisher of the Vicksburg Post. He was recognized by the profession and by his community as a leader, serving as president of the Mississippi Press Association, the Vicksburg Rotary Club and Delta Broadcasting Co. which operated radio station WQBC. He was a two term director of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, and a director of Vicksburg Building and Loan Association, O’Neill-McNamara Hardware Co., First National Bank and Trust, the YMCA, a member of the board of Mercy Hospital, the Vicksburg Bridge Commission and a member of the State Eleemosynary Board.
He was chosen as man of the year in 1959 by the Vicksburg Jaycees.
His newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for coverage of a tornado which struck the city on Dec. 5, 1953, killing 38 persons. He and his staff were able to issue a copy of the Sunday Post-Herald on schedule using makeshift tools such as rainwater for processing film and charcoal for heating press plates. The award of the Pulitzer was made on May 3, 1954.
The Cashman family is storied within the Association, with five generations serving as president between 1894-1990. Cashman's son, Louis P. Cashman Jr., and his grandson, Louis P. Cashman III, joined him in the Hall of Fame in 2002 and 2011, respectively.
