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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. (1924-2000), 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. (1924-2000), 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]] 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, [[E. L. "Bubba" Henry]], then of Jonesboro in Jackson Parish in north Louisiana, a 1979 gubernatorial candidate and later a long-term resident of [[Baton Rouge]]. The position had opened after the Democratic primary runoff in which [[incumbent]] [[John Sidney Garrett]] of Haynesville in Claiborne Parish was unseated by the [[business]]woman Louise Brazzel Johnson (1924-2002) of Bernice in Union Parish.<ref>''The Shreveport Times,'' February 3, 1972.</ref>

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