People from Natchitoches, Louisiana - Kate Chopin, Jerry Fowler, Grits Gresham, Robert Deblieux, Marie Therese Metoyer, Jimmy D. Long (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Kate Chopin, Jerry Fowler, Grits Gresham, Robert DeBlieux, Marie Therese Metoyer, Jimmy D. Long, James L. McCorkle, Jr., George Doherty, Gerald Long, Paul L. Foshee, Arthur C. Watson, Donald G. Kelly, Rick Nowlin, Bob Reese, A.R. Johnson, Dan Flores, Don Shows, Arnold R. Kilpatrick, Billy Montgomery, Leopold Caspari, John S. Kyser, Ada Jack Carver Snell, John Keeny, Moses Austin, Henry C. Dethloff, Taylor Townsend, H. Welborn Ayres, Pat Listach, Medford Bryan Evans, Marietta LeBreton, John William Payne, James Benjamin Aswell, Rene J. Bienvenu, Eugene P. Watson, Pierre Bossier, Mary Belle de Vargas, Petey Perot, Steve Dowden. Excerpt: Jerry Marston Fowler (April 26, 1940 - January 26, 2009) was a Baton Rouge businessman who served as Louisiana's state Elections Commissioner from 1980 until his defeat in the 1999 jungle primary. He was part of the Fowler family Democratic political dynasty. Fowler vacated the position in 2000 and was thereafter indicted, convicted and imprisoned for bribery and income tax evasion in a scandal that grew out of acceptance of kickbacks on the purchase of voting machines. Fowler succeeded his ailing father, Wiley Douglas Fowler, Sr. (1906-1980), as Elections Commissioner. Collectively, the Fowlers, who hailed from Coushatta, the seat of rural Red River Parish, served forty-one years in the position, originally called the "Custodian of Voting Machines." W. Douglas Fowler was originally appointed voting machine custodian by Governor Earl Kemp Long. A former Red RiverParish clerk of court and a one-time Coushatta mayor, Fowler was then elected to his first full term as elections commissioner in the 1959-1960 election cycle. He was reelected with minimal opposition in 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1975. (The primaries for the 1968 and the 1972 elections were held late in 1967 and 1971). To Louisiana ...