Jesse C. Deen
| Jesse C. Deen | |
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| Louisiana State Representative for District 9 (Bossier and Webster parishes) |
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In office May 1972 – March 1988 |
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| Preceded by | Ford E. Stinson |
| Succeeded by | Billy Montgomery |
| Member of the Bossier Parish Police Jury | |
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In office 1960 – May 1972 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Jesse Claude Deen April 24, 1922 Eros, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | December 7, 2015 (aged 93) Bossier Parish, Louisiana |
| Resting place | Rose-Neath Cemetery in Bossier City, Louisiana |
| Political party | Democrat-later-Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Evelyn Young Deen (married 1947-2015, his death) |
| Children |
Former Bossier Parish Sheriff Larry Deen, 3 others Twelve grandchildren |
| Residence | Rocky Mount Community |
| Alma mater |
Montgomery (Louisiana) High School |
| Occupation | Educator |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Navy |
| Battles/wars | World War II stateside service |
Former Bossier Parish Sheriff Larry Deen, 3 others
Montgomery (Louisiana) High School
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Jesse Claude Deen (April 24, 1922 – December 7, 2015) was an American educator and politician from Bossier Parish, Louisiana, who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives for primarily Bossier Parish from 1972 to 1988. At times, he also represented a small portion of neighboring Webster Parish.
Deen was born in 1922 at rural Eros in Jackson Parish in North Louisiana and reared in the Hargis community in Grant Parish north of Alexandria. He was one of five children of Marion Claude Deen (1889-1973), a native of Atlanta in Winn Parish native, and the former Minnie E. Durham (1888-1974), both of whom are interred at the Hargis Baptist Church Cemetery.
In 1940, Deen graduated from Montgomery High School in Montgomery, a town in northwestern Grant Parish. After service in the United States Navy in both San Diego and Long Beach, California during World War II, Deen earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning, located in Lafayette. Later, he procured a Master of Science from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He did further graduate study at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, then known as Northeast Louisiana University.
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