William Crosson Feazel (June 10, 1895 - March 16, 1965) was a

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from

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. Born near Farmerville in

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, he attended the public schools and engaged as an independent oil and gas producer. Feazel was a member of the

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from 1932 to 1936. He was appointed by Governor

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on May 18, 1948, as a

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to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of

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. Feazel served from May 18 to December 30, 1948. He was not a candidate for election to the vacancy in 1948 and resumed the oil and gas business in Monroe and

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. He was a resident of West Monroe, and died in Shreveport in 1965; interment was in Hasley Cemetery, West Monroe. His seat went to his fellow Democrat,

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, the son of Huey P. Long, Jr.

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, ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics'' (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Claitor's Publishers, 1991), p. 162-163

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