Phanor Breazeale, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Phanor Breazeale

U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 4th congressional district

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1858

Place of Birth: Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 29-Apr-1934

Profession: lawyer, politician, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Phanor Breazeale

  • Phanor Breazeale (December 29, 1858 – April 29, 1934) was a U.S.
  • Representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district. Born in Natchitoches Parish in north central Louisiana, Breazeale attended private schools.
  • In 1877, at the close of Reconstruction, he moved to Natchitoches, the parish seat. He worked in a mercantile establishment for two years and studied law.
  • He relocated to New Orleans, where he was a clerk in the Louisiana Supreme Court.
  • He graduated in 1881 from the d Tulane University Law School in New Orleans and was admitted to the bar that same year.
  • He began his law practice in Natchitoches, the oldest established city in the state.
  • From 1882 to 1884, Breazeale was also engaged in newspaper work. From 1888 to 1891, he was the president of the Natchitoches Parish School Board.
  • He was elected district attorney for the 10th Judicial District, having served from 1892 to 1899.
  • He was a member of the Louisiana state constitutional convention in 1898, which drew up a document in existence for twenty-three years.
  • Thereafter, he was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1921. Breazeale was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1905). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1904, having been defeated by the attorney John T.
  • Watkins of Minden in Webster Parish.
  • He then resumed the practice of law in Natchitoches.
  • He was appointed in October 1908 as a member of a commission to codify Louisiana's criminal laws and to prepare a code of criminal procedure. Breazeale was a member of the Democratic State central committee from 1908 until his death.
  • He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908 and again in 1916. Breazeale died in Natchitoches and is interred at the Catholic Cemetery there. In a commencement address delivered in May 1918 at the former Ashland High School in Ashland in northern Natchitoches Parish, Breazeale focused on the American Red Cross during World War I and its record of service to which he urged the graduates to aspire.

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