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4 unusual facts about Vermilion Parish


Louisiana Highway 696

Louisiana Highway 696 (LA 696) is a state highway that serves Vermilion parish.

Louisiana Highway 697

Louisiana Highway 697 (LA 697) is a state highway that serves Vermilion parish.

Louisiana Highway 699

Louisiana Highway 699 (LA 699) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Vermilion parish, extending from LA 92 and intersecting with LA 35.

Louisiana Highway 700

Louisiana Highway 700 is a state highway that serves Vermilion and Lafayette parishes.


Gary Beard

Also running was a second Republican, Country music singer Sammy Kershaw of Abbeville, the seat of Vermilion Parish in southwestern Louisiana, who drew 30 percent of the ballots.

Overton Brooks

After winning an easy closed Democratic primary race, Waggonner faced a stronger-than-usual Republican challenger in Charlton Lyons, a Shreveport oilman originally from Vermilion Parish in south Louisiana.


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Roy R. Theriot

The couple had three children: Barbara Ellen Theriot (born 1949), Roy R. Theriot, Jr. (born 1952), and Sam H. Theriot, a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1979 to 1996 and thereafter the Vermilion Parish Clerk of Court for a single term from 1996 to 2000.