Lawrence Tyler Fuglaar, Sr. | |
Nationality: | American |
Office: | Louisiana State Representative for Rapides Parish |
Party: | Democrat |
Term Start: | 1948 |
Term End: | 1952 |
Preceded: | At-large members: Carl B. Close C. H. "Sammy" Downs John R. Hunter, Jr. |
Succeeded: | At-large members: Cecil R. Blair James R. Eubank Lloyd George Teekell H. N. Goff |
Birth Date: | 6 September 1895 |
Birth Place: | Pineville, Louisiana, US |
Death Cause: | Drowning |
Death Place: | Drowned at Toledo Bend Reservoir Hemphill, Sabine County Texas, USA |
Resting Place: | Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, Louisiana |
Residence: | Pineville, Louisiana |
Spouse: | (1) Hilda Johnson Fuglaar (died 1930) (2) Leona J. Fuglaar |
Children: | Marjorie Elaine Dunbar Lawrence T. Fuglaar, Jr. Thomas Eugene Fuglaar Patricia Ann Fuglaar Leslie Lee Fuglaar |
Parents: | Thomas Hall Fuglaar, Sr. Elodie Boyd Smith |
Lawrence Tyler Fuglaar, Sr. (September 6, 1895 - April 18, 1972),[1] was a Democrat from Pineville, Louisiana, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1948 to 1952 during the second administration of Governor Earl Kemp Long.[2] [3] [4]
In 1972, Fuglaar drowned when his boat capsized while he was fishing with his wife on Toledo Bend Reservoir near Hemphill in Sabine County in East Texas. His second wife, Leona J. Fuglaar (1911-1985), summoned for help and survived.[5]
Fuglaar and his second wife are interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville.[1]