Morris P. Lecompte, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller

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Morris P. Lecompte, one of the prominent younger members of the New

Orleans bar, has the qualifications of education, training and character for

his chosen vocation and has built up a good practice.  His offices are in the

Canal Commercial Bank Building.



He was born in Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, January 28, 1898,

son of Eugene L. and Lydia (Gooch) Lecompte.  His mother died in 1914

and his father is still living at Houma.  Morris P. Lecompte graduated from

the Houma High School in 1916, following which he spent one year in

academic studies at Tulane University and took his law degree at Tulane in

1920.  He was admitted to the bar the same year, and has been active in a

general practice at New Orleans for the past five years.



Mr. Lecompte is unmarried.  He is a member of the Catholic Church and

the Louisiana and American Bar Associations.  He is of French ancestry on

the paternal side and English through his mother.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 288-289, by Henry E. Chambers. 

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New

York, 1925.