Louisiana State Representative from Madison Parish
In office 1936–1952
Preceded by
Mason Spencer
Succeeded by
Edgar H. Lancaster, Jr.
Personal details
Born
(1896-01-24)January 24, 1896 Madison Parish, Louisiana, U.S.
Died
June 1, 1974(1974-06-01) (aged 78) Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.
Resting place
Silver Cross Cemetery in Tallulah
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Retta Brooks Sevier (married 1918-1974, his death)
Relations
Cousins:
Andrew L. Sevier
Andrew Jackson Sevier
William Putnam Sevier
Children
Carolyn Sevier Yerger
Roberta Sevier Gandy
Henry Clay Sevier, Jr.
Parent(s)
Roxie Roberta Allen and James Douglas Sevier, Sr.
Residence(s)
Tallulah, Louisiana, U.S.
Alma mater
Louisiana State University
Columbia University
Louisiana State University Law Center
Occupation
Lawyer; law partner of Jefferson B. Snyder
Military service
Branch/service
United States Army
Battles/wars
World War I in France
Henry Clay "Happy" Sevier, Sr. (January 24, 1896 – June 1, 1974) was a lawyer and politician from Tallulah, Louisiana. One of a large political family, he served from 1936 to 1952 as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Madison Parish.[1]
^"Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016" (PDF). house.louisiana.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 6, 2014. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
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Constitutional minimum age of 30, such as HenryClay, who was sworn into office at age 29, and John Henry Eaton, the youngest U.S. senator in history...
state native Andrew Jackson, over the National Republican candidate, HenryClay. Jackson won Tennessee by a large margin of 90.84%. This is the most recent...
electoral vote, but no candidate won the electoral majority. With the help of HenryClay, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams in a contingent...
district was ceded to the federal government to become Tennessee before Sevier could take his seat, but was seated anyway. Supported the Crawford faction...
election, Jackson's supporters accused Adams and HenryClay of having reached a "corrupt bargain" in which Clay helped Adams win the contingent election in...
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Papers." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 23 (1951). Swint, Henry Lee, ed. "Reports from Educational Agents of the Freedmen's Bureau in Tennessee...
CPVI. The delegation has 9 members: 8 Republicans and 1 Democrat. John Sevier was elected in North Carolina's 5th district, which included the territory...
Biosphere Reserve in 1988. The park anchors a large tourism industry based in Sevier County, Tennessee, adjacent to the park. Major attractions include Dollywood...
Nation (now part of Oklahoma); rest of northern portion was dissolved into Sevier County in 1828. All of its southern portion was in Texas, and was nominally...
leaders coming of age in the 1820s and 1830s, such as Andrew Jackson, HenryClay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun, the founders represented heroic...
gathering supplies for the Continental Army. Later in the war, he and John Sevier led expeditions over the Appalachian Mountains against the British forces...
censuring him. The Congress reconvened in December 1833, at which point HenryClay introduced a two-part resolution which, in its first part, asserted that...