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|name=Frank Russo Fulco, Sr.

|name=Frank Russo Fulco, Sr.

|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative from Caddo Paris

|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br>for Caddo Paris

|term_start=1956

|term_start=1956

|term_end=1972

|term_end=1972

Assumption Parish, [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]

Assumption Parish, [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]

|death_date=August 20, 1999 (aged 80)

|death_date=August 20, 1999 (aged 80)

|resting_place=Forest Park Cemetery in Shreveport, Louisiana

|resting_place=Forest Park Cemetery in Shreveport, Louisiana

|spouse= Josie Tritico Fulco (married 1934-1999, his death)

|spouse= Josie Tritico Fulco (married 1934-1999, his death)

<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15140coll23/id/2266|title=Legislators support med bonds|publisher=''Shreveport Journal''|author=Harry Taylor|date=May 1966|accessdate=October 25, 2014}}</ref>

<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15140coll23/id/2266|title=Legislators support med bonds|publisher=''Shreveport Journal''|author=Harry Taylor|date=May 1966|accessdate=October 25, 2014}}</ref>

Early in 1969, Governor John McKeithen replaced Fulco on the House Budget Committee with freshman Representative Lonnie Odell Aulds, also of Shreveport. The matter sparked divisiveness in the Caddo Parish delegation, but McKeithen tried to smooth over the hard feelings with self-deprecating humor in an engagement in Shreveport in mid-February 1969.<ref>Charlotte Burrows, "McKeithen leaves them 'em Laughing, Gasping," ''The Shreveport Times,'' February 18, 1969.</ref>

Early in 1969, Governor John McKeithen replaced Fulco on the House Budget Committee with freshman Representative Lonnie Odell Aulds (1925-1984), also of Shreveport. The matter sparked divisiveness in the Caddo Parish delegation, but McKeithen tried to smooth over the hard feelings with self-deprecating humor in an engagement in Shreveport in mid-February 1969.<ref>Charlotte Burrows, "McKeithen leaves them 'em Laughing, Gasping," ''The Shreveport Times,'' February 18, 1969.</ref>

==Losing to Art Sour==

==Losing to Art Sour==

Fulco was defeated for a fifth term in 1972, in the newly-drawn single-member District 6 seat, by the strongly [[conservative]] Republican Arthur W. Sour, Jr. (124-2000)]], of Shreveport. Sour received 5,564 votes (53.2 percent) to Fulco's 4,886 (46.8 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, February 1, 1972.</ref> Fulco and Sour were both Catholics and both Byrd High School graduates.

Fulco was defeated for a fifth term in 1972, in the newly-drawn single-member District 6 seat, by the strongly [[conservative]] Republican Arthur W. Sour, Jr. (124-2000)]], of Shreveport. Sour received 5,564 votes (53.2 percent) to Fulco's 4,886 (46.8 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, February 1, 1972.</ref> Fulco and Sour were both Catholics and both Byrd High School graduates.

In the campaign, Fulco seemed to ignore Sour's candidacy because the Republican had lost House races in 1964 and 1968. Reports surfaced that Fulco was instead attempting to line up commitments to become the new House Speaker, but he instead lost his seat in an unusually strong Republican year in Caddo Parish. Sour had benefited from the election popularity of GOP gubernatorial nominee [[David C. Treen]], who carried Shreveport in his first race for governor. The speaker's position instead went to Fulco's fellow Democrat Edgerton L. "Bubba" Henry then of Jonesboro in Jackson Parish in north Louisiana but later  a long-term resident of [[Baton Rouge]]. The position had opened after the Democratic primary runoff in which [[incumbent]] John Sidney Garrett (1922-2005) of Haynesville in Claiborne Parish was unseated by the [[business]]woman Louise B. Johnson of Bernice in Union Parish.<ref>''The Shreveport Times,'' February 3, 1972.</ref>

In the campaign, Fulco seemed to ignore Sour's candidacy because the Republican had lost House races in 1964 and 1968. Reports surfaced that Fulco was instead attempting to line up commitments to become the new House Speaker, but he instead lost his seat in an unusually strong Republican year in Caddo Parish. Sour had benefited from the election popularity of GOP gubernatorial nominee [[David C. Treen]], who carried Shreveport in his first race for governor. The speaker's position instead went to Fulco's fellow Democrat Edgerton L. "Bubba" Henry, then of Jonesboro in Jackson Parish in north Louisiana but later  a long-term resident of [[Baton Rouge]]. The position had opened after the Democratic primary runoff in which [[incumbent]] [[John Sidney Garrett]] (1921-2005) of Haynesville in Claiborne Parish was unseated by the [[business]]woman Louise B. Johnson of Bernice in Union Parish.<ref>''The Shreveport Times,'' February 3, 1972.</ref>

==Constitutional convention==

==Constitutional convention==

After his legislative defeat, Fulco rebounded to win a position as delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention held in 1973.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>

After his legislative defeat, Fulco rebounded to win a position as delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention held in 1973.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>

The delegates wrote the Louisiana Constitution, which voters approved in 1974. Fulco's colleagues included  future [[U.S. Representative]] and Governor [[Buddy Roemer|Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III]], then of [[Bossier City]], future U.S. District Judge [[Tom Stagg]] of Shreveport, and [[Robert G. Pugh]], a Shreveport lawyer who advised three governors and wrote much of the section on local and state government in the Constitution. Another delegate was House Speaker E L. Henry, the man whose position Fulco had informally sought early in the previous year.

The delegates wrote the Louisiana Constitution, which voters approved in 1974. Fulco's colleagues included  future [[U.S. Representative]] and Governor [[Buddy Roemer|Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III]], then of [[Bossier City]], future U.S. District Judge [[Tom Stagg]] of Shreveport, and [[Robert G. Pugh]], a Shreveport lawyer who advised three governors and wrote much of the section on local and state government in the Constitution. Another delegate was House Speaker E. L. Henry, the man whose position Fulco had informally sought early in the previous year.

==Obituary==

==Obituary==