 He was on the original advisory board of the New Orleans branch of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which was established in 1932 in the Hoover administration to provide loans to prevent large businesses from collapse during the Great Depression.For years, Bolton represented Rapides Parish on the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee.Bolton was a member (and president from 1929 to 1931) of the board of trustees of Baptist Hospital in Alexandria, now Rapides Medical Center.