Hollis Downs
| Hollis Homer Downs | |
|---|---|
| Louisiana House of Representatives for District 12 (Lincoln and Union parishes) | |
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In office January 2003 – January 9, 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Jay McCallum |
| Succeeded by | Rob Shadoin |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 2, 1946 Farmerville, Union Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Catherine "Cathy" Downs |
| Children |
Including: |
| Parents |
Woodrow Alexander Downs |
| Alma mater | Louisiana Tech University |
| Occupation |
Businessman Professor at Louisiana Tech University |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Army |
Including:
Woodrow Alexander Downs
Hollis Homer Downs (born October 2, 1946) is an American academic and Republican former state legislator who represented District 12 (Lincoln and Union parishes) in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2003 to 2012. He is a finance professor at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.
A native of Farmerville, the seat of government of Union Parish, Downs is the second of three children of Woodrow Alexander Downs and Juel Meredith Downs Chappell (1919–2014), a native of Grayson in Caldwell Parish and a daughter of James Monroe Downs and the former Pearl Jane Hearne. After Woodrow Downs's death, Juel married Dr. William Chappell, Jr., since deceased, from whom she acquired a step-daughter, Nancy Oviatt and her husband Steve of Catharpin, Virginia, and a step-son, William Chappell, III, of Pearisburg, Virginia. In her later years, Juel, who had worked for the office of state social services in Farmerville, moved to Ruston. She had instituted the first Girl Scouts of America chapter in Farmerville.
Downs has an older brother, Robert Warren Downs and wife, Susan Jo Downs, of Houston, Texas. Downs's sister, Jane Downs Watts of Ruston, the wife of Tucker Watts, was formerly married to Bruce N. Lynn, II (born 1950), the son of the Republican former State Representative Bruce Lynn of Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana. Coincidentally, Bruce Lynn's wife died on the same day as Hollis Downs's mother. Margaret Lynn and Juel Downs Chappell hence shared three grandchildren, one of whom was Ross Alexander Lynn (1979–2013), a photographer and mountain climber killed in a farming accident on the Lynn plantation in Caddo Parish at the age of thirty-three. He preceded them in death by just over a year.The Ross Alexander Lynn Foundation was established in his honor in Ruston.
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