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The Hopkins family requested memorials to the Oil and Gas Museum in Oil City 71601. Hopkins was honored two months before his death by the naming of "Roy 'Hoppy' Hopkins Drive" at the entrance to the Caddo Parish Ward II Industrial Park near Vivian.
The Hopkins family requested memorials to the Oil and Gas Museum in Oil City 71601. Hopkins was honored two months before his death by the naming of "Roy 'Hoppy' Hopkins Drive" at the entrance to the Caddo Parish Ward II Industrial Park near Vivian.
In a special election held on February 24, 2007, to choose Hopkins' successor, the Republican [[Jim Morris (Louisiana Politician)|Jim Morris]], a Caddo Parish commissioner, received 69 percent of the vote and defeated two other Republicans and two Democrats. Morris then won a full term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. In 2019, Morris revealed that he had switched his voter registration to [[Independent]] the preceding year; he was term-limited in the 2019 nonpartisan blanket primary.
In a special election held on February 24, 2007, to choose Hopkins' successor, the Republican [[Jim Morris (Louisiana Politician)|Jim Morris]], a Caddo Parish commissioner, received 69 percent of the vote and defeated two other Republicans and two Democrats.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, February 24, 2007.</ref> Morris then won a full term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. In 2019, Morris revealed that he had switched his voter registration to [[Independent]] the preceding year; he was term-limited in the 2019 nonpartisan blanket primary.
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