Charles Emery Tooke Jr. (July 19, 1912 – September 1986) was an attorney from

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, who served as a

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in the

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from 1948 to 1956, alongside, first,

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and, then, B. H. "Johnny" Rogers, both of

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. Tooke was born in DeRidder in

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in southwestern Louisiana, to Charles Emery Tooke Sr. (1880-1951), a native of

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in northwestern Louisiana, and the former Bessie Lee Roberts (1887-1961). He had a brother, Jack Roberts Tooke (1918-1972), and a sister, Sarah Katherine Tooke Pankey (1914-2012), who was an educator, primarily in Winnsboro in

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, Louisiana. Tooke was a lieutenant commander in the

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during

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. He worked in the military government and civil affairs of the Navy in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Tooke and his first wife, Lucia, had six children. Following the death of his first wife, Tooke married Thais Grimes. Tooke is interred at Forest Park Cemetery in Shreveport, alongside his first wife, Lucia.

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