{{Infobox officeholder | image = Vol_Dooley.jpg | image_size = 175px | caption = | office = Sheriff of Bossier Parish, Louisiana | term_start = July 8, 1976 | term_end = July 1, 1988 | preceded = William Edward "Willie" Waggonner | succeeded = Larry Deen | birth_name = Vol Sevier Dooley Jr. | birth_date = January 20, 1927 | birth_place = Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA | spouse = (1) Bobbie Katherine Dooley (divorced)<br /> (2) Ruth Lilley Dooley | children = 7; 28 grandchildren | parents = Vol Sr., and Sadie Rae Hargrove Dooley | death_date = August 11, 2014 (aged 87) | death_place = Bossier City, Louisiana | death_cause = Lengthy illness | resting_place = Hillcrest Cemetery in Haughton, Louisiana | party = Democrat / later Republican | occupation = Law-enforcement officer | alma_mater = }} <!-- Deleted image removed: 200px|right|thumb|Sheriff Dooley in uniform (undated photo) -->
'''Vol Sevier Dooley Jr.''' (January 20, 1927 – August 11, 2014) was an American sheriff. He was the sheriff of Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana from 1976 until 1988. He was involved in the false conviction of rodeo star Jack Favor in 1967.
==Early life and career== Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Dooley joined Troop G of the Louisiana State Police in 1950, and in 1954, joined the Bossier Sheriff's Office.<ref name=shrtimes/> With the state police, he developed an expertise in fingerprinting and photographic equipment, which he brought to the sheriff's department.<ref name=statepolice>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4GtEKTzUGIC&pg=PA28 |title=Charles D. Cardin, Images of America: Bossier Parish', p. 28|publisher=Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing Company |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-7385-0172-7|accessdate=February 16, 2014}}</ref>
In 1967, as chief deputy, Dooley was accused of involvement in a plot by Sheriff Waggonner, Judge O. E. Price, and District Attorney Louis H. Padgett Jr. to falsely convict rodeo champion Jack Favor of Fort Worth, Texas, of the double-murder of an elderly couple.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/16846793/|title="Legal Blotch", January 6, 1982, p. 20|newspaper=Paris (Texas) News|accessdate=February 7, 2014}}</ref> Favor sued for wrongful conviction and imprisonment, settling for $55,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19760317&id=jxFXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WUMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6270,4230032|title=People in the News: Jack Favor, rodeo star ...|work=google.com|accessdate=February 6, 2014}}</ref>
==Service as sheriff== Dooley was elected sheriff in a special election in 1976 to fill the remainder of the preceding term,<ref name=shrtimes/><ref>"Vol Dooley wins", ''Minden Press-Herald'', November 3, 1976, p. 3</ref> and was reelected in 1979 and 1983.<ref>Lt. Bill Davis, Public Information Officer, Bossier Parish Sheriff's Department, List of Sheriffs since 1843</ref> In 1984, Dooley and six of his deputies were found liable for injuries incurred by prison inmate Jessie Lee Smith while being transported from the Bossier Parish Jail in Benton to the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19841748591FSupp1157_11631|title=Jessie Lee SMITH v. Vol S. DOOLEY et al., July 23, 1984|work=leagle.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref>
In 1985, Dooley was cited in a ''Chicago Tribune'' piece on Louisiana politics, noting Dooley's friendship with Governor Edwin Edwards:
{{blockquote|That's the long-accepted way things work in Louisiana, a state that operates under a political trickle-down theory, beginning with the governor. Just as in the economic trickle-down theory, the political version goes that if the big guns at the top are taken care of, the benefits will eventually reach everyone else down below. In the form, for example, of more hospital rooms. Eventually the power and its benefits, albeit on a much smaller scale, trickle down to the parishes--as the counties are called in Louisiana--to the Vol Dooleys and the Wiley Fallons.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/06/02/clout-southern-style/|title="Clout Southern Style: When It Comes To Politics, Chicago Ain't Got Nothin' On The Pelican State", June 2, 1985|newspaper=The Chicago Tribune|access-date=February 28, 2014}}</ref>}}
Dooley lost his final bid for reelection in October 1987 to former chief deputy, Larry Deen, with Dooley winning less than 29 percent of the vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10241987/10241987_08.html|title=Results for Election Date: 10/24/1987 (Bossier Parish)|work=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=February 4, 2014}}</ref> Dooley thereafter worked in security for the Port of Shreveport.<ref name=shrtimes/><ref name=statepolice/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.entergy-louisiana.com/content/economic_development/ports/Caddo_Bossier.pdf|title=Caddo-Bossier Port Commission|work=entergy-louisiana.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref>
==Personal life and death== Dooley divorced his first wife, with whom he had four children, and remarried. One of his sons, Vol Dooley III, was murdered in 2001. Dooley died in Bossier City at age 87, following a long illness.<ref name=shrtimes>{{cite news|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2014/08/12/ex-bossier-sheriff-vol-dooley-dies/13967151/|title=Ex-Bossier Sheriff Vol Dooley dies|newspaper=The Shreveport Times|accessdate=August 12, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2014/08/15/friends-colleagues-pay-tribute-dooley-funeral/14142793/|title=Friends, colleagues pay tribute to Dooley at funeral|author=Maya Lau|newspaper=The Shreveport Times|accessdate=August 16, 2014}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} {{Portal|Biography|United States|Politics}} {{s-start}} {{succession box |before=William Edward "Willie" Waggonner |title=Sheriff of Bossier Parish, Louisiana |years=1976—1988 |after=Larry Deen}} {{s-end}}
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