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==Background==

==Background==

Humphries was born in [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana. He was the second child and oldest boy of six children born to Guy E. Humphries, Sr., originally from El Dorado, [[Arkansas]], and the former Hattie A. Sheppard of Pelahatchie in Rankin County, [[Mississippi]]. His parents had previously lived near Delhi in Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana. The family moved to the Bayou Rigollette ([proounced ROW GULLEY) community in Rapides Parish so that the senior Humphries could procure treatment at the Alexandria Veterans Administration Hospital for tuberculosis, which he probably contracted during [[World War I]]. After his father's death, Humphries and his siblings helped their mother in the operation of the family farm.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20100325/OBITUARIES/100324021/1023/Judge-Guy-E.-Humphries--Jr.|title=Obiuary of Judge Guy E. Humphries, Jr.|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=March 25, 2010; no longer on-line.</ref>

Humphries was born in [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana. He was the second child and oldest boy of six children born to Guy E. Humphries, Sr., originally from El Dorado, [[Arkansas]], and the former Hattie A. Sheppard of Pelahatchie in Rankin County, [[Mississippi]]. His parents had previously lived near Delhi in Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana. The family moved to the Bayou Rigollette ([proounced ROW GULLEY) community in Rapides Parish so that the senior Humphries could procure treatment at the Alexandria Veterans Administration Hospital for tuberculosis, which he probably contracted during [[World War I]]. After his father's death, Humphries and his siblings helped their mother in the operation of the family farm.<ref name=obit>Obituary of Guy E. Humphries, Jr., ''The Alexandria Town Talk', accessed=March 25, 2010; no longer on-line.</ref>

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Humphries graduated from Tioga High School in Ward 10 of Rapides Parish and thereafter accepted employment with the Union Pacific Railroad. During [[World War II]], he served for more than three years in the [[United States Army]] Air Corps, the forerunner to the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]]. Two of those years were in the Pacific Theater of operations. He was a radio control operator and cryptographer, having been honorably discharged as a tech sergeant.<ref name=obit/> Through access to the G.I. Bill of Rights, he subsequently obtained his pre-law education at [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Louisiana College]] in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]] in Rapides Parish. He graduated in 1951 with a [[Juris Doctor]] degree from the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]]. His law school classmates included future [[U.S. Representative]] Gillis William Long (1923-1985), later Rapides Parish District Attorney [[Ed Ware]], and his subsequent 9th Judicial District Court colleague Lloyd George Teekell (1922-1996).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/lsu/1951/Page_127.html|title=Louisiana State University ''Gumbo'' yearbook, 1951|publisher=e-yearbook.com|accessdate=July 3, 2013}}</ref>  He was the vice-president of his law school senior class and earned the Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Award.<ref name=obit/>​

Humphries graduated from Tioga High School in Ward 10 of Rapides Parish and thereafter accepted employment with the Union Pacific Railroad. During [[World War II]], he served for more than three years in the [[United States Army]] Air Corps, the forerunner to the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]]. Two of those years were in the Pacific Theater of operations. He was a radio control operator and cryptographer, having been honorably discharged as a tech sergeant.<ref name=obit/> Through access to the G.I. Bill of Rights, he subsequently obtained his pre-law education at [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Louisiana College]] in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]] in Rapides Parish. He graduated in 1951 with a [[Juris Doctor]] degree from the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]]. His law school classmates included future [[U.S. Representative]] Gillis William Long (1923-1985), later Rapides Parish District Attorney [[Ed Ware]], and his subsequent 9th Judicial District Court colleague Lloyd George Teekell (1922-1996).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/lsu/1951/Page_127.html|title=Louisiana State University ''Gumbo'' yearbook, 1951|publisher=e-yearbook.com|accessdate=July 3, 2013}}</ref>  He was the vice-president of his law school senior class and earned the Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Award.<ref name=obit/>​