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After Michot unseated Dodd, Frye telephoned him to offer congratulations. A few weeks later, Frye alleged that Michot, along with a brother, was operating a bar in Lafayette. Frye also claimed that Michot had offered him a high level job in a new Michot education department if Frye would withdraw from the general election contest.<ref name=mph>"Frye Released Papers Say Michot Unethical", ''Minden Press-Herald,'' January 27, 1972, p. 1.</ref> Michot denied the charges<ref name=mph/> and easily prevailed, 662,597 votes (63.5 percent) to Frye's 380,896 (36.5 percent).<ref name=returns/> At the time Frye challenged Michot, the Republican Party in Louisiana numbered fewer than 38,000 registrants in the state; Frye henced polled ten times the votes of his voter base. He lost his native  Webster and Tangipahoa Parish, where he resided at the time of that campaign. Frye polled majorities in East Baton Rouge Parish and five north Louisiana parishes: Caddo, Ouachita, LaSalle, Lincoln and Winn, the former stronghold of the [[Huey Long|Long]] political political faction.<ref name=returns/><ref>Billy Hathorn, "The Republican Party in Louisiana, 1920-1980", ([[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], [[Louisiana]]: [[Northwestern State University]], 1980), p. 203</ref>

After Michot unseated Dodd, Frye telephoned him to offer congratulations. A few weeks later, Frye alleged that Michot, along with a brother, was operating a bar in Lafayette. Frye also claimed that Michot had offered him a high level job in a new Michot education department if Frye would withdraw from the general election contest.<ref name=mph>"Frye Released Papers Say Michot Unethical", ''Minden Press-Herald,'' January 27, 1972, p. 1.</ref> Michot denied the charges<ref name=mph/> and easily prevailed, 662,597 votes (63.5 percent) to Frye's 380,896 (36.5 percent).<ref name=returns/> At the time Frye challenged Michot, the Republican Party in Louisiana numbered fewer than 38,000 registrants in the state; Frye henced polled ten times the votes of his voter base. He lost his native  Webster and Tangipahoa Parish, where he resided at the time of that campaign. Frye polled majorities in East Baton Rouge Parish and five north Louisiana parishes: Caddo, Ouachita, LaSalle, Lincoln and Winn, the former stronghold of the [[Huey Long|Long]] political political faction.<ref name=returns/><ref>Billy Hathorn, "The Republican Party in Louisiana, 1920-1980", ([[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], [[Louisiana]]: [[Northwestern State University]], 1980), p. 203</ref>

==Death and family==​

==Death and family==

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Years later, Frye retired to Springhill, located just south of the [[Arkansas]] state boundary. He died at the age of eighty-four. In addition to his wife, he is survived by four children, Robert Randal Frye (born 1947) of [[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]], Bettye Rene Frye (born 1951) of Baton Rouge, Deborah Jean Frye Ferachi (born 1952), and husband, Kenneth Raymond "Kenny" Ferachi (born 1950), of Plaquemine in Iberville Parish,  south of  Baton Rouge, and Kevin Dale Frye (born 1957) and wife Janice of Benton in Bossier Parish;  a sister, Nona Rhea Walker (1920-2016) of Baton Rouge; six grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/> He was predeceased by his brother, Dr. Jennings Bryan Frye, Jr. (1918–2005), of Baton Rouge.<ref name=obit/>​

Years later, Frye retired to Springhill, located just south of the [[Arkansas]] state boundary. He died at the age of eighty-four. In addition to his wife, he is survived by four children, Robert Randal Frye (born 1947) of [[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]], Bettye Rene Frye (born 1951) of Baton Rouge, Deborah Jean Frye Ferachi (born 1952), and husband, Kenneth Raymond "Kenny" Ferachi (born 1950), of Plaquemine in Iberville Parish,  south of  Baton Rouge, and Kevin Dale Frye (born 1957) and wife Janice of Benton in Bossier Parish;  a sister, Nona Rhea Walker (1920-2016) of Baton Rouge; six grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/> He was predeceased by his brother, Dr. Jennings Bryan Frye, Jr. (1918–2005), of Baton Rouge.<ref name=obit/>​