Background
Sevier was a descendant of John Sevier, a fighter in the American Revolution, an early governor of Tennessee, and the namesake of Sevierville in Sevier County in eastern Tennessee.
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Henry Sevier
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Columbia University; Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Louisiana State University.
Career
Sevier"s election occurred a few months after the assassination of Huey Pierce Long, Junior., and at the time there was much voter sympathy for the pro-Long faction. The staunchly anti-Long Mason Spencer had announced that he would run for governor but withdrew before the election, and victory went to the Longite choice, Richard Leche of New Orleans. Sevier was a son of the former Roxie Roberta Allen and James Douglas Sevier, Senior, a native of Portuguese Gibson, in Claiborne County in southwestern Mississippi, who became a planter in Madison Parish in 1880.
Sevier graduated in 1917 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
By 1921, he had completed postgraduate work at Columbia University in New York City and graduated from the Louisiana State University Law Center. He entered into practice with Jefferson B. Snyder of Tallulah, the political boss of the delta parishes in northeastern Louisiana, who wielded power as the regional district attorney from 1904 to 1948.
After Snyder"s death, he formed the Sevier, Yerger, and Sevier law firm in Tallulah. He was president of the Tallulah State Bank and Trust Company.
Like Snyder, Sevier was active in the Democratic State Central Committee.
He was the national committeeman during the first administration of Governor Jimmie Davis. In 1952, when his legislative service ended, he was the state Democratic chairman under Governor Earl Kemp Long. In 1918, Sevier married the former Retta Brooks (1899-1992) in Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana.
Sevier died in 1974 in Mercy Hospital in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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Purple Heart; Silver Star Purple Heart
The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed, while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the U.S. military.The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed, while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the U.S. military.