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| name=Cecil Ray Blair​

| name=Cecil Ray Blair​

| office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator<br> for Rapides Parish​

| office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator<br> for Rapides Parish​

Blair lived, first, in the Paradise Community north of the Red River and later on Jackson Street Extension in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. He is most associated, however, with his farm near Lecompte (pronounced LEA COUNT), a community south of Alexandria.​

Blair lived, first, in the Paradise Community north of the Red River and later on Jackson Street Extension in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. He is most associated, however, with his farm near Lecompte (pronounced LEA COUNT), a community south of Alexandria.​

==Background==​

==Background==

Blair was the third of eight children born to a sharecropping family, a son of [[Alabama]] native Homer Franklin Blair (1889–1956) and the [[Mississippi]] native, the former Hersie Elnora Pearson (1888–1979). He was born in [[rural]] Morgantown in Marion County near Columbia in southwestern Mississippi. Blair grew up in Sicily Island, a small community in Catahoula Parish northeast of Alexandria.​ Coincidentally, years later, Blair served in the state Senate alongside another Catahoula Parish native, Jess Carr "Sonny" Gilbert of Sicily Island.​

Blair was the third of eight children born to a sharecropping family, a son of [[Alabama]] native Homer Franklin Blair (1889–1956) and the [[Mississippi]] native, the former Hersie Elnora Pearson (1888–1979). He was born in [[rural]] Morgantown in Marion County near Columbia in southwestern Mississippi. Blair grew up in Sicily Island, a small community in Catahoula Parish northeast of Alexandria.​ Coincidentally, years later, Blair served in the state Senate alongside another Catahoula Parish native, Jess Carr "Sonny" Gilbert of Sicily Island.​

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