Harry Connick, Sr.

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Sr. , known as Harry Connick Sr., is a New Orleans attorney who is best known for serving as the district attorney of the Parish of Orleans, which contains the City of New Orleans, from 1973 to 2003. His son, Harry Connick, Jr. is a successful jazz singer, pianist, actor, and humanitarian. The elder Connick is a singer, long performing a few nights a week at local clubs as a hobby. He has been outspoken on the use of narcotics and pressed for drug testing of highschool students.

Connick Sr. was born Joseph Harry Fowler Connick in Mobile, Alabama, the second of eight children of Jessie Catherine and James Paul Connick . Both his parents and grandparents were from Mobile. His father worked for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. When Harry was two years old, he and his family moved to New Orleans. Music was a large part of his early life, and he was particularly influenced by Glenn Miller. After high school, he served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II. After the war, he returned to New Orleans and graduated from Loyola University New Orleans with a degree in business administration.

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