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Eight years later, Foshee was elected to a single term in the state Senate when he unseated 20-year Democratic Senator Sylvan N. Friedman, a pro-[[Earl Long|Long]] [[farmer]], cattleman, and large landowner from Natchez in south Natchitoches Parish (not to be confused with Natchez, [[Mississippi]]). After securing the pivotal Democratic nomination, Foshee then handily defeated in the [[general election]] held on February 1, 1972, the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Bob Reese]],<ref name=ssdi/> a businessman who later became chairman of the Natchitoches Parish Board of Election Supervisors and served on the Republican State Central Committee from 1968 to 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.longdistancevoter.org/files/voter_forms/Louisiana_registrar_of_voters.pdf|title=Louisiana Parish Election Officials LIst|publisher=longdistancevoter.org|accessdate=September 26, 2009}}</ref> Reese had earlier run for the Louisiana House from Jackson Parish,  having been defeated by future Speaker [[E. L. "Bubba" Henry]].<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, February 6, 1968.</ref>​
 
Eight years later, Foshee was elected to a single term in the state Senate when he unseated 20-year Democratic Senator Sylvan N. Friedman, a pro-[[Earl Long|Long]] [[farmer]], cattleman, and large landowner from Natchez in south Natchitoches Parish (not to be confused with Natchez, [[Mississippi]]). After securing the pivotal Democratic nomination, Foshee then handily defeated in the [[general election]] held on February 1, 1972, the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Bob Reese]],<ref name=ssdi/> a businessman who later became chairman of the Natchitoches Parish Board of Election Supervisors and served on the Republican State Central Committee from 1968 to 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.longdistancevoter.org/files/voter_forms/Louisiana_registrar_of_voters.pdf|title=Louisiana Parish Election Officials LIst|publisher=longdistancevoter.org|accessdate=September 26, 2009}}</ref> Reese had earlier run for the Louisiana House from Jackson Parish,  having been defeated by future Speaker [[E. L. "Bubba" Henry]].<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, February 6, 1968.</ref>​
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In the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary in 1975, Foshee was unseated by his fellow Democrat, Donald Gene Kelly, a Natchitoches [[attorney]] and thoroughbred horse breeder originally from Coushatta in Red River Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/Documents/SenateMembership1880ForwardRevisedMar2011.pdf |publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=October 21, 2019}}</rerf> In 1979, Foshee’s 23-year-old son, George Barnes "Barney" Foshee (1956–2000), failed in an attempt to unseat Kelly, who scored the second of his  five terms in the state Senate. In 1987, Foshee himself unsuccessfully challenged Kelly, 25,619 votes (62.5 percent) to 15,346 (37.5 percent).<ref<Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>​
 
In the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary in 1975, Foshee was unseated by his fellow Democrat, Donald Gene Kelly, a Natchitoches [[attorney]] and thoroughbred horse breeder originally from Coushatta in Red River Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/Documents/SenateMembership1880ForwardRevisedMar2011.pdf |publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=October 21, 2019}}</rerf> In 1979, Foshee’s 23-year-old son, George Barnes "Barney" Foshee (1956–2000), failed in an attempt to unseat Kelly, who scored the second of his  five terms in the state Senate. In 1987, Foshee himself unsuccessfully challenged Kelly, 25,619 votes (62.5 percent) to 15,346 (37.5 percent).<ref<Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>​
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Foshee considers himself to have been an independent "good government" type of legislator, concerned in particular about bills relating to insurance, reducing taxes, and removing from the state payroll, so-called "deadheads" or phantom employees who perform little or no actual work for their government checks. Though outgoing [[Governor]] [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] supported Foshee's initial election to the House, Foshee considered himself neither "pro-Long" nor "anti-Long" within his state's then dominant Democratic Party.<ref name=statement/>​
 
Foshee considers himself to have been an independent "good government" type of legislator, concerned in particular about bills relating to insurance, reducing taxes, and removing from the state payroll, so-called "deadheads" or phantom employees who perform little or no actual work for their government checks. Though outgoing [[Governor]] [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] supported Foshee's initial election to the House, Foshee considered himself neither "pro-Long" nor "anti-Long" within his state's then dominant Democratic Party.<ref name=statement/>​
  

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Paul Lee Foshee, Sr.​

Louisiana State Senator for
principally Natchitoches Parish​
In office
1972​ – 1976​
Preceded by Sylvan N. Friedman​
Succeeded by Donald Gene Kelly​

Louisiana State Representative for Natchitoches Parish (one of two members)​
In office
1960​ – 1964​
Preceded by E. H. Haynes

Monnie T. Cheves​

Succeeded by Ray Darryl Tarver​

Born November 12, 1932
Natchitoches
Louisiana, USA
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Divorced from:

(1) Charlene Addington Foshee
​ (2) Venita Ann Higgs Foshee (deceased)
​ (3) Martha Martinez Foshee
​ (4) Joyce Wall Foshee
​ (5) Karen Cook Foshee​ (6) Katherine Joan Phares Foshee (divorced)​

Children Paul Lee Foshee, Jr.

Fran Lea Foshee Poole
​ George Barnes Foshee (deceased)
​ Lane Chase Foshee (deceased)
​ Seven grandchildren
Parents:
George Washington and Mamie Lee Smith Foshee

Occupation Businessman

Paul Lee Foshee, Sr. (born November 12, 1932), is a retired crop duster from Natchitoches, Louisiana, who served as a Democrat nonconsecutively in both houses of his state's legislature during the 1960s and 1970s.​ ​

Background

Foshee is descended from an old-line Natchitoches family, which first came to the Cane River area in 1690 from Paris, France.[1] 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 desegregation), and in 1961, he completed studies for a bachelor's degree in social science at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches.[1]

Foshee has been married and divorced 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.[2] 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.[3]

From the first marriage, Foshee also has a daughter, Fran Lea Foshee Poole, and the late son, George Foshee.[2] 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.[4] 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.[1]

Foshee holds Patent 5033695, July 23, 1991, on the Aileron counterbalance mount bracket used on the Brumann crop dusting plane. The device operates similarly to power steering in automobiles. The patent expired in 2010.[5]​ ​

Political life

​ From 1960 to 1964, beginning at the age of twenty-seven, Foshee served a single four-year term as a state representative for Natchitoches Parish. With former Representative Curtis Boozman, he was elected in a two-member district in which the incumbents, Monnie T. Cheves and E. H. Hayes, were unseated in the 1959-1960 election cycle. Hayes was a former agriculture teacher at Natchitoches High School;[6]​ Cheves, a professor at Northwestern State University.[7]

Eight years later, Foshee was elected to a single term in the state Senate when he unseated 20-year Democratic Senator Sylvan N. Friedman, a pro-Long farmer, cattleman, and large landowner from Natchez in south Natchitoches Parish (not to be confused with Natchez, Mississippi). After securing the pivotal Democratic nomination, Foshee then handily defeated in the general election held on February 1, 1972, the Republican Bob Reese,[8] a businessman who later became chairman of the Natchitoches Parish Board of Election Supervisors and served on the Republican State Central Committee from 1968 to 1996.[9] Reese had earlier run for the Louisiana House from Jackson Parish, having been defeated by future Speaker E. L. "Bubba" Henry.[10]

In the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary in 1975, Foshee was unseated by his fellow Democrat, Donald Gene Kelly, a Natchitoches attorney and thoroughbred horse breeder originally from Coushatta in Red River Parish.[11]

Foshee considers himself to have been an independent "good government" type of legislator, concerned in particular about bills relating to insurance, reducing taxes, and removing from the state payroll, so-called "deadheads" or phantom employees who perform little or no actual work for their government checks. Though outgoing Governor Earl Kemp Long supported Foshee's initial election to the House, Foshee considered himself neither "pro-Long" nor "anti-Long" within his state's then dominant Democratic Party.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Statement of Paul Foshee, Sr., Natchitoches, Louisiana, September 24, 2009.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Paul Foshee. culpepper.net/foshee. Retrieved on September 23, 2009.
  3. National Agricultural Aviation Association listing, agaviationlorg, September 23, 2009, inforrmation no longer available.
  4. Fern Park Cemetery, Natchitoches, Louisiana. rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved on September 23, 2009.
  5. US Patent 5033695 - Aileron counterbalance mount bracket. patentstorm.us/patents. Retrieved on September 29, 2009.
  6. Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2020 (Natchitoches Parish). Louisiana House of Representative (May 21, 2019). Retrieved on October 21, 2009.
  7. In Memoriam: Monnie T. Cheves. The Alexandria Town Talk (August 17, 1988). Retrieved on September 9, 2014.
  8. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named ssdi
  9. Louisiana Parish Election Officials LIst. longdistancevoter.org. Retrieved on September 26, 2009.
  10. Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, February 6, 1968.
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    . Louisiana State Senate. Retrieved on October 21, 2019.</rerf> In 1979, Foshee’s 23-year-old son, George Barnes "Barney" Foshee (1956–2000), failed in an attempt to unseat Kelly, who scored the second of his five terms in the state Senate. In 1987, Foshee himself unsuccessfully challenged Kelly, 25,619 votes (62.5 percent) to 15,346 (37.5 percent).<ref<Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.

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