Judge Leven L. Hooe; Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Judge Leven L. Hooe.  More than half of the time since his admission 
to the bar. Judge Hooe has given to some important public position in 
Rapides Parish.  He is now judge of the District Court at Alexandria.  
In Judge Hooe Central Louisiana has One of its strongest and ablest men.

He was born in Rapides Parish in 1866, son of J. G. P. and Delia 
(Luckett) Hooe, his father a native of Virginia, and his mother of 
Rapides Parish. His father came to Louisiana about the time of the 
Civil war.  He had at an earlier date served with William Walker's 
famous expedition to Nicaragua, and in the Civil war he joined 
General Walker's Confederate brigade and was a captain throughout 
the war, participating in a number of battles and campaigns.  He 
was a member of the Episcopal church, a democrat, but held or sought
no important offices.  However, for one term he was sergeant-at-arms 
of the State Senate.  His death occurred in 1888 at the age of fifty-
two, and his widow survived him until 1912, when she passed away at 
the age of fifty-six.  In his private life he was a planter.  He was 
a member of the company of white citizens that participated in the 
Colfax riots, in suppressing the Negro uprising and establishing white 
supremacy in the State of Louisiana.

Leven L. Hooe, only child of his parents, grew up at Alexandria, where 
he attended public schools.  He graduated Bachelor of Science from 
Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1886, and finished his 
law course in Tulane College at New Orleans in 1888, being admitted 
to the bar the same year.  Shortly afterwards he engaged in private 
practice at Alexandria and gave his full time and energies to a growing 
business as an attorney for the next twelve years.  In 1900 he was 
elected parish superintendent of schools, an. office he held until 
1908, in which year he was elected city judge.  He was a judge of the 
City Court until 1920, when he was elected judge of the Thirteenth 
Judicial District, comprising the parishes of Grant and Rapides.  He 
was re-elected in 1924 for a term of six years.

Judge Hooe married Miss Minnie Texada in 1892.  She is a daughter of 
L. E. Texada, a pioneer of Rapides Parish.  Mrs. Hooe was educated in 
public and private schools at Alexandria.  Of the four children born 
to their marriage, the two living are:  John, a dealer in automobile 
tires at Alexandria; and Minnie, wife of D. S. O'Shee, a druggist at 
Alexandria.

Judge Hooe is a member of the Episcopal Church, is affiliated with the 
Woodmen of the World and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 
and has taken an active part in democratic politics, attending numerous 
party conventions.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 223, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and 
New York, 1925.