Bio: Phanor Breazeale,  Natchitoches Parish La
Submitted by: Kay Thompson Brown



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Phanor Breazeale
b: 1858 d: 1934



Phanor Breazeale was  a Representative from Louisiana; born in Natchitoches
Parish, La., December 29, 1858
He attended private schools and  moved to Natchitoches, La., in 1877.  There
he clerked in a mercantile establishment for two years.
He studied law; clerk in the supreme court of the State, graduated
from the law department of Tulane University, New Orleans, in 1881, was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Natchitoches.  He
also engaged in newspaper work 1882-1884; president of the school board of
Natchitoches Parish 1888-1891; district attorney for the tenth judicial
district 1892-1900; member of the State constitutional convention in 1898;
elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1904; resumed the practice of law in Natchitoches, La.;
appointed in October 1908 member of a commission to codify the criminal laws
of Louisiana and to prepare a code of criminal procedure; member of the
Democratic State central committee since 1908 and a member of the executive
committee; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908 and 1916;
member of the constitutional convention to frame a constitution for the State
of Louisiana in 1921; died in Natchitoches, La., April 29, 1934.

He is buried  in the Catholic Cemetery.