Cliff Ammons

Who was Cliff Ammons?

Clifton R. Ammons, known as Cliff Ammons, was an educator and businessman from Many, Louisiana, who served from 1960-1964 as a Democrat from Sabine Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives. He is principally remembered as "the father of Toledo Bend Reservoir", a large recreational and power complex on the Louisiana/Texas border. Toledo Bend encompasses parts of four counties in Texas as well as Sabine and De Soto parishes in Louisiana. It is the largest lake in Texas and the largest waterway of its kind on the borders of Texas.Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana is much larger in area, but it is a brackish estuary and not a true lake.