Guy Humphries
| Guy Earl Humphries, Jr. | |
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| Louisiana Ninth Judicial District Court Judge | |
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In office September 8, 1960 – December 31, 1981 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 11, 1923 Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States |
| Died | March 20, 2010 (aged 86) Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Ann Virginia Davis Humphries (married 1948–2008, her death) |
| Children | Guy E. Humphries, III Richard Davis Humphries Ann Humphries Jacob |
| Alma mater |
Louisiana College Louisiana State University Law Center |
| Occupation |
Judge Attorney |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Army Air Corps |
| Rank | Cryptanalyst |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
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(1) As a judge, Humphries grew concerned over the fate of youthful offenders and joined with two friends, a Baptist minister and the Alexandria city judge, to establish the Renaissance Home for Youth in Rapides Parish. |
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(1) As a judge, Humphries grew concerned over the fate of youthful offenders and joined with two friends, a Baptist minister and the Alexandria city judge, to establish the Renaissance Home for Youth in Rapides Parish.
Guy Earl Humphries, Jr. (May 11, 1923 – March 20, 2010), was a Ninth Judicial District Court judge in Alexandria, Louisiana, known also as a co-founder of the Renaissance Home for Youth, a criminal rehabilitation center in Rapides Parish. At the time of his death, Humphries had been retired from the bench eight years longer than the twenty-one years of his judicial tenure.
Humphries was born in Shreveport in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana. He was the second child and oldest boy of six children born to Guy E. Humphries, Sr., originally from El Dorado, Arkansas, and the former Hattie A. Sheppard of Pelahatchie in Rankin County in central Mississippi. His parents had previously lived near Delhi in Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana. The family moved to the Bayou Rigollette community of Rapides Parish so that the senior Humphries could procure treatment at the Alexandria Veterans Administration Hospital for tuberculosis, which he probably contracted during World War I. After his father's death, Humphries and his siblings helped their mother in the operation of the family farm.
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