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A native of [[rural]] Greenwood in southwestern Caddo Parish,<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site23.php|title=Flournoy, J. Howell|publisher=Louisiana Historical Association:  ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' (lahistory.org)|accessdate=December 31, 2010}}</ref> Flournoy was the son of James Pattison "Pat" Flournoy, Sr., the Caddo Parish sheriff from 1906 to 1916, who had previously been the Shreveport municipal auditor, parish tax assessor, and coroner, at a time when medical examiners in Louisiana need not have been physicians.<ref name=cpso>{{cite web|url=http://www.caddohistory.com/caddo_sheriff_template_page_4.html|title=The Beginnings of the Modern Sheriff's Office|publisher=caddohistory.com|accessdate=December 31, 2010}}</ref> Flournoy was the paternal grandson of 19th century Sheriff Alonzo Flournoy.<ref name=history/>

A native of [[rural]] Greenwood in southwestern Caddo Parish,<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site23.php|title=Flournoy, J. Howell|publisher=Louisiana Historical Association:  ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' (lahistory.org)|accessdate=December 31, 2010}}</ref> Flournoy was the son of James Pattison "Pat" Flournoy, Sr., the Caddo Parish sheriff from 1906 to 1916, who had previously been the Shreveport municipal auditor, parish tax assessor, and coroner, at a time when medical examiners in Louisiana need not have been physicians.<ref name=cpso>{{cite web|url=http://www.caddohistory.com/caddo_sheriff_template_page_4.html|title=The Beginnings of the Modern Sheriff's Office|publisher=caddohistory.com|accessdate=December 31, 2010}}</ref> Flournoy was the paternal grandson of 19th century Sheriff Alonzo Flournoy.<ref name=history/>

Flournoy was educated in Shrveport publc schools and thereafter attended an unnamed business college. A Louisiana National Guardsman, he was a [[United States Army]] veteran of [[World War I]], with assignment on the [[Mexico|Mexican]] border.  He was also as an instructor in a machine gun school at Camp Hancock, [[Georgia]], and was commissioned a lieutenant.<ref name=sjobit>"Sheriff 26 Years – J. H. Flournoy Dies," ''[[Shreveport Journal]]'', December 14, 1966, p. 1.</ref>

Flournoy was educated in Shreveport public schools and thereafter attended an unnamed business college. A Louisiana National Guardsman, he was a [[United States Army]] veteran of [[World War I]], with assignment on the [[Mexico|Mexican]] border.  He was also as an instructor in a machine gun school at Camp Hancock, [[Georgia]], and was commissioned a lieutenant.<ref name=sjobit>"Sheriff 26 Years – J. H. Flournoy Dies," ''[[Shreveport Journal]]'', December 14, 1966, p. 1.</ref>

==Public career==

==Public career==