Gil Dozier
| Gil Dozier | |
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| Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry | |
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In office May 10, 1976 – March 10, 1980 |
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| Preceded by | Dave L. Pearce |
| Succeeded by | Bob Odom |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Gilbert Lynel Dozier March 19, 1934 Fields in Beauregard Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Died | September 23, 2013 (aged 79) Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Cause of death | Cardiovascular disease |
| Resting place | Newlin Cemetery in Singer in Beauregard Parish |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Jean Helen Kirkland Dozier |
| Domestic partner | Treva Lea Tidwell |
| Relations |
Maternal grandfather: |
| Children |
Susan Laborde |
| Parents | A. J. and Sylvia Mae Hennigan Dozier |
| Residence |
St. Francisville |
| Alma mater |
University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| Occupation |
Lawyer; businessman |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Air Force |
| Rank | Lieutenant colonel |
Maternal grandfather:
Susan Laborde
Denise Dupre
Leslie Lynelle Dozier
Carrie Johns
Gilbert Hennigan Dozier
St. Francisville
West Feliciana Parish
Louisiana (moved 2011)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lawyer; businessman
Gilbert Lynel "Gil" Dozier (March 19, 1934 – September 23, 2013), was an attorney, businessman, farmer, and rancher who served from 1976 to 1980 as the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry. A Democrat, Dozier's political career ended with felony convictions and imprisonment for nearly four years. Most of his adult life was spent in and about Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Dozier was one of two sons born in rural Fields in Beauregard Parish in southwestern Louisiana to the educators A. J. Dozier (1907–1997) and the former Sylvia Mae Hennigan (1910–1977). Dozier's brother, Kenneth Rufus Dozier (born 1938) of DeRidder, is partly named for their paternal grandfather, Rufus Dozier. Sylvia Dozier's mother, the former Myrtie Mae Whitman, died before her fortieth birthday in 1927 in childbirth with her ninth pregnancy. Sylvia's father, Gilbert Franklin Hennigan, for whom Gil Dozier received his first name, was a rancher, a member and president of the Beauregard Parish School Board, and from 1944 to 1956 a state senator for Allen, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, and Beauregard parishes. As chairman of the Senate Education Committee, Hennigan was instrumental in the upgrading in 1950 of McNeese State University in Lake Charles to a four-year institution. Gil Dozier's uncle by marriage, Toby O'Rillion, the husband of Dozier's maternal aunt Hope, ran for the office of state comptroller in 1959 on the Bill Dodd intraparty ticket but was eliminated from the runoff election won by Roy R. Theriot, then the mayor of Abbeville in Vermilion Parish. With the new state constitution of 1974, the comptroller position became non-elected.
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