Eugene Eason
| Fulton Eugene Eason | |
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| Louisiana State Representative from District 10 (Webster Parish) | |
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In office March 23, 1991 – 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Bruce Martin Bolin |
| Succeeded by | Everett Gail Doerge |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 28, 1928 Clarks, Caldwell Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Died | March 25, 2007 (aged 78) Shreveport, Caddo Parish Louisiana |
| Resting place | Springhill Cemetery in Springhill, Louisiana |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Frances Smith Eason (married 1951-2006, her death) |
| Children |
John Wesley Eason |
| Residence | Springhill, Louisiana |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Religion | Baptist |
| Businessman Eason, a state legislator for nine months from 1991-1992, was a civic leader in his adopted city of Springhill, Louisiana, having served twice on the city council and for a long period on the Webster Parish Library Board. | |
John Wesley Eason
Joy Kathleen Langston
David Eugene Eason
Fulton Eugene Eason (May 28, 1928 – March 25, 2007) was a businessman from Springhill, Louisiana, who ran as a Republican in four elections for the Louisiana House of Representatives in calendar year 1991. He won the special election runoff on March 23 for a 9-month unexpired term from District 10, then encompassing all of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. Eason was the first Republican ever to seek election to the heavily Democratic Webster Parish seat in the Louisiana House.
Two educators, both since deceased, sought the representative's position, Ralph Lamar Rentz, Sr. (1930-1995), the former Webster Parish School Board personnel director, and Faye Newsome, the principal of Minden High School, but neither polled sufficient votes to enter the determining runoff election. In the first balloting Eason trailed Patti Lou Cook Odom of Minden. She is the daughter of Thelma Louise "Lou" Cook (died 1994) and Harold Ray "Boe" Cook (1925-1997), who came to Minden in 1961 and became co-owners of the Minden radio station KASO. Odom's husband, Charles Deck Odom, is a former member of the Webster Parish Police Jury. Her son, Chad Odom, ran unsuccessfully in 2014 for mayor of Minden; he was narrowly defeated by the Republican incumbent Tommy Davis. In the runoff campaign for the state House, Eason challenged Odom from the political right. He questioned her backing for affirmative action, minority set-aside arrangements on public contracts, abortion, the Second Amendment, the 1984 Mondale-Ferraro ticket. Eason said that he had been supporting Ronald W. Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush while Odom was backing liberal Democratic candidates.
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