Elliot D’Evereux Coleman I (May 1, 1881 – May 26, 1963), was a cotton planter and law-enforcement officer who served from 1936 to 1960 as the sheriff of Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana.
Earlier, he had been a state police bodyguard of U.S.
Senator Huey P.
Long, Jr., on September 8, 1935, the night of Long's assassination.