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| name=Benjamin Henry Pavy
| name=Benjamin Henry Pavy
==Background==
==Background==
Pavy was born in Coulee Croche in St. Landry Parish to Alfred Henry Pavy (died 1908) and the former Laperle Guidry. He was educated in the Opelousas public schools.<ref name=dlb/> His brother, Felix Octave Pavy (1879-1962), an Opelousas [[physician]] who was a member of the St. Landry Parish Police Jury, the St. Landry Parish School Board, and thereafter the Louisiana House of Representatives, having served from 1932 to 1936, during the time of the administration of Long's gubernatorial successor, Oscar Kelly Allen of Wnnfield in north Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.la.us/members/h1812-2012.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives: St. Landry Parish, 1812-2012|publisher=Legis.state.la.us|accessdate=April 13, 2019}}</ref>
Pavy was born in Coulee Croche in St. Landry Parish to Alfred Henry Pavy (died 1908) and the former Laperle Guidry. He was educated in the Opelousas public schools.<ref name=dlb/> His brother, [[Felix Octave Pavy]], an Opelousas [[physician]] who was a member of the St. Landry Parish Police Jury, the St. Landry Parish School Board, and thereafter the Louisiana House of Representatives, having served from 1932 to 1936, during the time of the administration of Long's gubernatorial successor, Oscar Kelly Allen of Wnnfield in north Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.la.us/members/h1812-2012.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives: St. Landry Parish, 1812-2012|publisher=Legis.state.la.us|accessdate=April 13, 2019}}</ref>
On November 4, 1896, Pavy wed the former Ida Veazie (1875-1940) of Opelousas. Their children included three sons, Alfred Veazie Pavy (1899–1979) and the twins Albert Lionel Pavy (1902–1986) and Alfred Dudley Pavy (1902–1930), and four daughters, Yvonne Louise Pavy Weiss Bourgeois (1908–1963), Marie Aline Pavy (1911–1998), Evelyn Laperle Pavy (1904–1974), and Ida Catherine Pavy Boudreaux (1922–2015).<ref name=dlb/>
On November 4, 1896, Pavy wed the former Ida Veazie (1875-1940) of Opelousas. Their children included three sons, Alfred Veazie Pavy (1899–1979) and the twins Albert Lionel Pavy (1902–1986) and Alfred Dudley Pavy (1902–1930), and four daughters, Yvonne Louise Pavy Weiss Bourgeois (1908–1963), Marie Aline Pavy (1911–1998), Evelyn Laperle Pavy (1904–1974), and Ida Catherine Pavy Boudreaux (1922–2015).<ref name=dlb/>
==Career==
==Career==
Pavy was employed at the age of seventeen in the parish clerk of court's office. He worked there again when his father was elected as the St. Landry Parish clerk of court. He began his law practice in Opelousas in 1901, after having read law in the office of his future father-in-law, Edward P. Veazie (1850-1916). Pavy was elected as [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to the 16th District judgeship in 1910 — at the time there were no [[Republican Party|Republicans]] competitive in Louisiana — and served until a change in the district lines caused him not to run again. The new lines placed the anti-Long St. Landry Parish in a revised district with pro-Long voter majorities in Acadia, Lafayette, and Vermilion parishes.<ref name=dlb/>
Pavy was employed at the age of seventeen in the parish clerk of court's office. He worked there again when his father was elected as the St. Landry Parish clerk of court. He began his law practice in Opelousas in 1901, after having read law in the office of his future father-in-law, Edward P. Veazie (1850-1916). Pavy was elected as [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to the 16th District judgeship in 1910 — at the time there were no [[Republican Party|Republicans]] competitive in Louisiana — and served until a change in the district lines caused him not to run again. The new lines placed the [[anti-Long]] St. Landry Parish in a revised district with [[pro-Long]] voter majorities in Acadia, Lafayette, and Vermilion parishes.<ref name=dlb/>
===The bitter clash with Huey Long===
===The bitter clash with Huey Long===
Pavy is widely believed to be one of the reasons why Huey Long was shot, because shortly before Long died, he had obtained legislative passage of a law changing the configuration of Pavy's judicial district so that it included more Long supporters, a way to defeat Pavy when he ran for reelection in 1936, by which time Long had already been assassinated. One of his sons-in-law, Carl Austin Weiss. Sr., M.D., (1906-1935), was Long's alleged assassin though the Pavy and Weiss families have long disputed that assertion.<ref name=dlb>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-p/|title=Pavy, Benjamin Henry|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' (publication of the Louisiana Historical Association), Vol. 2|date=1988|page=635.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/huey_long/16.html|title=Kingfish's Death: Another Version|publisher=Crimelibrary.com|accessdate=April 13, 2019}}</ref>
Pavy is widely believed to be one of the reasons why Huey Long was shot, because shortly before Long died, he had obtained legislative passage of a law changing the configuration of Pavy's judicial district so that it included more Long supporters, a way to defeat Pavy when he ran for reelection in 1936, by which time Long had already been assassinated. One of his sons-in-law, Carl Austin Weiss. Sr., M.D., (1906-1935), was Long's alleged assassin though the Pavy and Weiss families have long disputed that assertion.<ref name=dlb>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-p/|title=Pavy, Benjamin Henry|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' (publication of the Louisiana Historical Association), 1988, Vol. 2, p. 635.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/huey_long/16.html|title=Kingfish's Death: Another Version|publisher=Crimelibrary.com|accessdate=April 13, 2019}}</ref>
Elton J. Doucet (1901–1992), younger brother of legendary St. Landry Parish Sheriff Daly Joseph "Cat" Doucet, Sr. (1899-1975) recalled Judge Pavy shortly before Doucet's own death in a 1991 interview: "All the farmers and all the poor people was {sic} for Huey P. Long. The Pavys couldn't get nothing {sic} they wanted from Huey. If he was your friend, he'd help you. If you were his enemy he'd stomp you down."<ref>{{cite web|url=
Elton J. Doucet (1901–1992), younger brother of legendary St. Landry Parish Sheriff Daly Joseph "Cat" Doucet, Sr. (1899-1975), recalled Judge Pavy shortly before Doucet's own death in a 1991 interview: "All the farmers and all the poor people was {sic} for Huey P. Long. The Pavys couldn't get nothing {sic} they wanted from Huey. If he was your friend, he'd help you. If you were his enemy he'd stomp you down."<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://web.archive.org/web/20120331180409/http://files.usgwarchives.org/la/orleans/newspapers/00000058.txt|title="Weiss's Body May Hold Clue"|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=October 17, 1991|accessdate=December 15, 2010.}}</ref>
https://web.archive.org/web/20120331180409/http://files.usgwarchives.org/la/orleans/newspapers/00000058.txt|title="Weiss's Body May Hold Clue"|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=October 17, 1991|accessdate=December 15, 2010.}}</ref>
* Richard D. White, Jr., ''Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long'' (New York: Random House, 2006), pp. 261–262, 264.
* Richard D. White, Jr., ''Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long'' (New York: Random House, 2006), pp. 261–262, 264.
* Henry E. Chambers, ''A History of Louisiana'', Vol. 2, p. 377 ([[Chicago]] and [[New York City]]: American Historical Society, Inc., 1925).
* Henry E. Chambers, ''A History of Louisiana'', Vol. 2, p. 377 ([[Chicago]] and [[New York City]]: American Historical Society, Inc., 1925).
* Donald A. Pavy, ''Accident and Deception: The Huey Long Shooting']. (New Iberia, Louisiana: Cajun Publishers, 1999).
* Donald A. Pavy, ''Accident and Deception: The Huey Long Shooting'' (New Iberia, Louisiana: Cajun Publishers, 1999).
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