Harney Felix Brunot (October 8, 1860 – March 11, 1944) was a justice of the

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from June 4, 1923, to December 31, 1936. Born in

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, to Robert Felix Brunot and Jane Elizabeth Brunot, née Neeley,"Death Notices", ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' (March 13, 1944), p. 18. Brunot received an LL.B. from

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in 1882. He was a city attorney for

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, from 1884 to 1896, when he became a judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court. He held that office until 1921, except for a period from 1904 to 1906 when he held the office of State Printer. From 1921 to 1923, he was a judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District Court, and was then elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court in 1923,"Jones Being Elected Judge", ''The Alexandria Town Talk'' (July 24, 1923), p. 3. remaining there until 1936. Brunot's wife, Alice M. Magee, was the state law librarian. They had a son and a daughter.

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