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Fournet's elected predecessor was Paul Narcisse Cyr (1878-1946), a [[dentist]] from Jeanerette in Iberia Parish. Long succeeded in removing his rival Cyr from the lieutenant governorship in 1931 and replacing him with[Alvin O. King, a Long loyalist from [[Lake Charles]] in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana.
Fournet's elected predecessor was Paul Narcisse Cyr (1878-1946), a [[dentist]] from Jeanerette in Iberia Parish. Long succeeded in removing his rival Cyr from the lieutenant governorship in 1931 and replacing him with[Alvin O. King, a Long loyalist from [[Lake Charles]] in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana.
==Election to the Supreme Court==
==Election to the Louisiana Supreme Court==
Fournet did not complete his term as lieutenant governor because he won a [[special election]] to the [[New Orleans]]-based state Supreme Court in the fall of 1934. Long, using sound trucks, campaigned personally for Fournet. He became an associate justice on January 2, 1935, and chief justice in 1949. He retired by constitutional mandate in 1970 at the age of seventy-five. He was also a former member of the prestigious LSU Board of Supervisors.
Fournet did not complete his term as lieutenant governor because he won a [[special election]] to the [[New Orleans]]-based state Supreme Court in the fall of 1934. Long, using sound trucks, campaigned personally for Fournet. He became an associate justice on January 2, 1935, and chief justice in 1949. He retired by constitutional mandate in 1970 at the age of seventy-five. He was also a former member of the prestigious LSU Board of Supervisors.