14 Facts About Phanor Breazeale

Phanor Breazeale served three terms as a US representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.

Phanor Breazeale worked in a mercantile establishment for two years and studied law.

Phanor Breazeale relocated to New Orleans, where he was a clerk in the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Phanor Breazeale graduated in 1881 from the d Tulane University Law School in New Orleans and was admitted to the bar that same year.

Phanor Breazeale began his law practice in Natchitoches, the oldest established city in the state.

From 1882 to 1884, Phanor Breazeale was engaged in newspaper work.

Phanor Breazeale was elected district attorney for the 10th Judicial District, having served from 1892 to 1899.

Phanor Breazeale was a member of the Louisiana state constitutional convention in 1898, which drew up a document in existence for twenty-three years.

Phanor Breazeale was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses.

Phanor Breazeale was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1904, having been defeated by the attorney John T Watkins of Minden in Webster Parish.

Phanor Breazeale was appointed in October 1908 as a member of a commission to codify Louisiana's criminal laws and to prepare a code of criminal procedure.

Phanor Breazeale was a member of the Democratic State central committee from 1908 until his death.

Phanor Breazeale was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908 and again in 1916.

Phanor Breazeale died in Natchitoches and is interred at the Catholic Cemetery there.