Bio: Judge Frank M. Dougherty, Caddo, Bienville and Claiborne Parishes,
Louisiana Second Judicial District

File prepared by D.N.P.


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>From "Biographies of Louisiana Judges" edited by J. Cleveland Fruge'
for the Louisiana District Judges Association, publishers.  1971.
Reproduction permitted without written permission provided credit
line is retained.  Copyright, 1971, J. Cleveland Fruge'.

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     Judge Frank M. Dougherty, who commenced his judicial career in October,
1958, was born in Angelina County, Texas, July 26, 1912, the second of three
sons born to Frank E. and Della Pitts Dougherty, both deceased.

     He received his education in the public schools of east Texas, at Baylor
University and at Loyola University and holds a law degree from each
university.

     During the Second World War he served 33 months in the South Pacific
with the Fifth Amphibious Force and the Second marine Divisions 18th Regiment.

He participated in a number of campaigns including, among others, Guadalcanal,
Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian.

     He is married to the former Miss Paulyn Gill of Claiborne Parish and they
have two children, Ruth a student at Louisiana College, and John Michael a
student at Claiborne Academy, Homer, Louisiana.

     The judge is a skilled hunter and fisherman and an expert marksman and
has vigorously pursued these sports since childhood.  However, serious
physical injuries which he received in 1962, when a horse fell on him,
together with declining health have limited his participation in recent years.

     It is well known to his friends that his love for the outdoors stands

next to his love for his family.  The impounding of the free running streams
of the state and the destruction of the great hardwood forests of the
delta region have caused him much sorrow.

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