Rick L. Farrar

Rick Lamar Farrar
State Representative for District 27 (Rapides Parish)
In office 1992–1996
Preceded by	Carl Newton Gunter, Jr.
Succeeded by	Randy E. Wiggins
Constituency	House District 27
In office 2000–2008
Preceded by	Randy E. Wiggins
Succeeded by	Lowell Christopher Hazel
Personal details
Born	1960 Louisiana, USA
Political party	Democratic
Residence	Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Occupation	Attorney
(1) Farrar, an attorney in Pineville, Louisiana, served three nonconsecutive terms as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He was succeeded twice by the only Republicans to hold the District 27 seat, based in northern and eastern Rapides Parish. (2) Farrar was among the lawmakers in 2006 who passed the Pet Evacuation Bill after reports surfaced during Hurricane Katrina of pets having been abandoned in the natural disaster.

(1) Farrar, an attorney in Pineville, Louisiana, served three nonconsecutive terms as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He was succeeded twice by the only Republicans to hold the District 27 seat, based in northern and eastern Rapides Parish.

Rick Lamar Farrar, known as Rick L. Farrar (born 1960), is an attorney in Pineville, Louisiana, who served as the Democratic state representative from District 27 in Rapides Parish from 1992–1996 and again from 2000-2008.

In 1991, Farrar unseated long-term Democratic incumbent Carl Newton Gunter, Jr., of Deville in the eastern portion of the parish, 7,729 votes (57 percent) to Gunter's 5,929 (43 percent), exactly 1,800 votes. Gunter ran into organized opposition from feminist groups who oppose his pro-life stance. On October 21, 1995, Farrar was unseated by the Republican Randy E. Wiggins of Pineville, a State Farm Insurance agent in Alexandria. Wiggins received 6,350 votes (51.1 percent) to Farrar's 6,077 (48.9 percent). Wiggins is the first Republican ever elected to the Louisiana House from Rapides Parish since the days of Reconstruction.

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