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Fowler's public career ended in [[indictment]] and a [[plea bargain]] for the circumvention of state bid laws and dissatisfaction over his having allocated scarce public monies on low-priority projects. He served forty-five days in the Sabine Parish Jail. Fowler was the third member of a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] political dynasty that also included two Louisiana state elections commissioners, the second of whom was indicted, convicted, and imprisoned for [[bribery]] and [[income tax]] evasion.<ref name=newspapers>''The Shreveport Times,'' March 8, 1986; March 10, 31, 1989; May 22, 1990; October 15, 1992.</ref>
Fowler's public career ended in [[indictment]] and a [[plea bargain]] for the circumvention of state bid laws and dissatisfaction over his having allocated scarce public monies on low-priority projects. He served forty-five days in the Sabine Parish Jail. Fowler was the third member of a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] political dynasty that also included two Louisiana state elections commissioners, the second of whom was indicted, convicted, and imprisoned for [[bribery]] and [[income tax]] evasion.<ref name=newspapers>''The Shreveport Times,'' March 8, 1986; March 10, 31, 1989; May 22, 1990; October 15, 1992.</ref>
==The Fowler dynasty==
==The Fowler dynasty==
Fowler was born to Angus Jesse Fowler and the former Zula Fair in the Holly Springs community near Coushatta,<ref name=obit/> forty miles south of [[Shreveport]]. He had two brothers and two sisters. His older brother, [[Douglas Fowler]], was elected three times as the Red River Parish clerk of court (1940–1952) and later served two years as Coushatta's mayor from 1952 to 1954. Douglas Fowler was elected as "custodian of voting machines" in the 1959-1960 Louisiana state election cycle and served until December 31, 1979, when ill health forced him to retire. His title had been changed under a new state constitution to "elections commissioner" effective with his last term, which began in 1976.
Fowler was born to Angus Jesse Fowler and the former Zula Fair in the Holly Springs community near Coushatta,<ref name=obit/> forty miles south of [[Shreveport]]. He had two brothers and two sisters. His older brother, [[Douglas Fowler]], was elected three times as the Red River Parish clerk of court (1940–1952) and later served two years as Coushatta's mayor from 1952 to 1954. Douglas Fowler was elected as "custodian of voting machines" in the 1959-1960 Louisiana state election cycle and served until December 31, 1979, when ill health forced him to retire. His title had been changed under a new state constitution to "elections commissioner" effective with his last term, which began in 1976.