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'''Paul Lee Foshee, Sr.''' (born November 12, 1932), is a retired crop duster from [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], [[Louisiana]], who served as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] nonconsecutively in both houses of his state's legislature during the 1960s and 1970s.
'''Paul Lee Foshee, Sr.''' (born November 12, 1932), is a retired crop duster from [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], [[Louisiana]], who served as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] nonconsecutively in both houses of his state's legislature during the 1960s and 1970s.
==Background==
==Baqckground==
Foshee is descended from an old-line Natchitoches family, which first came to the Cane River area in 1690 from [[Paris]], [[France]].<ref name=statement>Statement of Paul Foshee, Sr., [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], [[Louisiana]], September 24, 2009.</ref> His parents, who married in 1928, were George Washington Foshee (1893–1973), a veteran of [[World War I]] and a [[sawmill]] operator in Natchitoches, and the former Mamie Lee Smith (1906–1991). Foshee was reared in the [[Baptist]] Church. In 1950, he graduated from Natchitoches High School (renamed Natchitoches Central High School after [[Segregation|desegregation]]), and in 1961, he completed studies for a bachelor's degree in social science at [[Northwestern State University]] in Natchitoches.<ref name=statement/>
Foshee is descended from an old-line Natchitoches family, which first came to the Cane River area in 1690 from [[Paris]], [[France]].<ref name=statement>Statement of Paul Foshee, Sr., [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], [[Louisiana]], September 24, 2009.</ref> His parents, who married in 1928, were George Washington Foshee (1893–1973), a veteran of [[World War I]] and a [[sawmill]] operator in Natchitoches, and the former Mamie Lee Smith (1906–1991). Foshee was reared in the [[Baptist]] Church. In 1950, he graduated from Natchitoches High School (renamed Natchitoches Central High School after [[Segregation|desegregation]]), and in 1961, he completed studies for a bachelor's degree in social science at [[Northwestern State University]] in Natchitoches.<ref name=statement/>
Foshee has been married and [[divorce]]d six times. From his first marriage to the former Charlene Addington, the daughter of Charles Garland Addington and the former Wanda Vera Smiddy (1916–1975), he had four children.<ref name=genealogy>{{cite web|url=http://culpepper.net/foshee/d0036/g0000048.html#I18945|title=Paul Foshee|publisher=culpepper.net/foshee|accessdate=September 23, 2009}}</ref> Paul Foshee, Jr. (born 1951), operates Foshee Dusting Company in Natchitoches, the business that Foshee founded in 1952. Foshee, Sr., retired from flying in 1998.<ref>National Agricultural Aviation Association listing, agaviationlorg, September 23, 2009, inforrmation no longer available.</ref>
Foshee has been married and [[divorce]]d six times. From his first marriage to the former Charlene Addington, the daughter of Charles Garland Addington and the former Wanda Vera Smiddy (1916–1975), he had four children.<ref name=genealogy>{{cite web|url=http://culpepper.net/foshee/d0036/g0000048.html#I18945|title=Paul Foshee|publisher=culpepper.net/foshee|accessdate=September 23, 2009}}</ref> Paul Foshee, Jr. (born 1951), operates Foshee Dusting Company in Natchitoches, the business that Foshee founded in 1952. Foshee, Sr., retired from flying in 1998.<ref>National Agricultural Aviation Association listing, agaviationlorg, September 23, 2009, inforrmation no longer available.</ref>
From the first marriage, Foshee also has a daughter, Fran Lea Foshee Poole, and the late son, George Foshee.<ref name=genealogy/> A fourth child from the first marriage, Christie Cheryl Foshee, died at birth; no dates are marked on her gravestone in Fern Park Cemetery in Natchitoches.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lanatchi/fernpark.htm|title=Fern Park Cemetery, Natchitoches, Louisiana|publisher=rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=September 23, 2009}}</ref> From the second marriage to the former Venita Ann Higgs, since deceased, Foshee had a third son, Lane Chase Foshee (1970–1999). He has no children from his subsequent marriages to the former Martha Martinez, Joyce Wall, Karen Cook, and Katherine Joan Phares.<ref name=statement/>
From the first marriage, Foshee also has a daughter, Fran Lea Foshee Poole, and the late son, George Foshee.<ref name=genealogy/> A fourth child from the first marriage, Christie Cheryl Foshee, died at birth; no dates are marked on her gravestone in Fern Park Cemetery in Natchitoches.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lanatchi/fernpark.htm|title=Fern Park Cemetery, Natchitoches, Louisiana|publisher=rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=September 23, 2009}}</ref> From the second marriage to the former Venita Ann Higgs, since deceased, Foshee had a third son, Lane Chase Foshee (1970–1999). He has no children from his subsequent marriages to the former Martha Martinez, Joyce Wall, Karen Cook, and Katherine Joan Phares.<ref name=statement/>