Background
Doctor Pavy succeeded his father-in-law in the House and served a single term from 1932 to 1936.
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Felix Pavy
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He attended the former Saint Charles College in Grand Coteau, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and Tulane University School of Medicine, from which he received his Doctor of Medicine
Career
Pavy was born in Grand Coteau in Saint Landry Parish. degree in 1904. He practiced medicine first for many years in rural Leonville in Saint Landry Parish. In 1947, he moved to Opelousas, where he remained until his death in the spring of 1962 of a two-month illness.
Pavy was a past president of the Saint Landry Parish School Board.
In 1928, four years before his election to the state House of Representative, Pavy had opposed Huey Long by running as an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor against the Long-designated choice, Paul Cyr, a dentist from Jeanerette in Iberia Parish. Cyr later broke with the Longs.
At the time of his death, Doctor Pavy was vice-president of the gravity drainage district in Arnaudville. He was affiliated with fraternal benefit society, the Woodmen of the World, and both the Saint Landry and Louisiana state medical societies.
Membership
Doctor Pavy"s father-in-law was the attorney Gilbert L. Dupré, who from 1913 to 1932 was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. A long-term member of the Saint Landry Parish Police Jury, he was for seventeen years the president of that body.
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Religion
Roman Catholic Church