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{{Infobox officeholder
|name= Fred Lyle “Buddy” Schiele, Sr.
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for Concordia Parish
|term_start=1964
|term_end=1968
|preceded=S. P. "Jack" Crane
|succeeded=David I. Patten
|office2=[[Sheriff]] of Concordia Parish
|term_start2=April 6, 1973
|term_end2=July 1980
|preceded2=Noah W. Cross
|succeeded2=John Patrick
||birth_date=November 28, 1933
|birth_place=Vidalia, Concordia Parish<br> [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
|death_place=[[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA
|death_date=January 24, 2002 (aged 68)<br>
'''Resting place''':<br>
Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, [[Mississippi]]
|residence=Vidalia and Alexandria, Louisiana
|party= [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|religion=[[United Methodist]]
|occupation=[[Farmer]]; [[Sheriff]]|spouse= Maxine Smith Schiele (married 1954-2002, his death)<br>
'''Children''':<br>
Fred Schiele, Jr.<br>
Carole Ann Schiele Rice<br>
Patricia Leigh Schiele<br>
Alan Maxwell Schiele<br>
Steven Lowery Schiele, II<br>
'''Alma mater''': <br>
Vidalia High School<br>
[[Louisiana State University]]
|footnotes='''Notes''':<br>
*Schiele had already been a one-term state representative, when his former legislative colleague, [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]], tapped him to succeed Noah W. Cross as [[sheriff]] of Schiele’s native Concordia Parish in eastern [[Louisiana]].<br>
*Schiele managed Edwards’ [[gubernatorial]] campaign in Concordia Parish in 1971-1972.<br>
*After his seven years as sheriff, Shiele completed his college degree later in life and was employed thereafter by the Louisiana Department of Corrections.
}}
'''Fred Lyle Schiele, Sr.''', known also as '''Buddy Schiele''' (November 28, 1933 – January 24, 2002), served from 1964 to 1968 as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for Concordia Parish in eastern [[Louisiana]] adjacent to the [[Mississippi River]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1880-2020|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=October 30, 2019}}</ref>
Schiele (pronounced SHE LEE) did not seek reelection in the 1967 primary election but instead unsuccessfully opposed [[incumbent]] [[Sheriff]] Noah W. Cross of Ferriday, also in Concordia Parish. He won the sheriff's position in April 1973.
==Background==
Schiele was one of four sons born in Vidalia in Concordia Parish, to Catesby Edward Schiele and the former Lucille Rountree (1897-1977). In 1951, he graduated from Vidalia High School. Thirty years later, at the age of forty-eight, he procured his bachelor’s degree in [[business administration]] from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref>Statement of Fred Schiele, Jr., July 2008.</ref> Prior to his involvement in politics, Schiele ran a [[cotton]] gin in Ferriday. He also served on the board of First Federal Savings and Loan in Vidalia.<ref name=cs/>
In 1954, Schiele married the former Maxine Smith (1937-2009), a 1955 graduate of Vidalia High School. The couple had five children: Fred Schiele, Jr. (born 1955), a former deputy sheriff for his father and the appointed chief of police in Ferriday, who later entered the trucking business in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]; Carole Ann Schiele Rice (born 1960) and Patricia Leigh Schiele (born 1962), both of Loranger in Tangipahoa Parish; Alan Maxwell Schiele (born 1964), a deputy sheriff in East Baton Rouge Parish, and Steven Lowery Schiele, II (born 1975) of Port Vincent, a [[village]] in Livingston Parish. Steven is named for Steven Schiele, I, a first cousin who was killed in an [[automobile]] accident in 1971. There were also three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.<ref>'Fred Schiele, ''The Alexandria Town Talk ,'' January 5, 2002; statement of Maxine Smith Schiele, July 2008.</ref>
==Political life==
On April 6, 1973, more than five years after he first ran for sheriff of Concordia Parish, Schiele was appointed to the office by [[Governor of Louisiana|Governor]] [[Edwin Washington Edwards]], pending a [[special election]], after incumbent Noah Cross was forced to resign after twenty-five years in office because of the failure of the [[appeal]] of his federal conviction of [[perjury]].<ref>’’The Concordia Sentinel,'' April 11, 1973, p. 1.</ref> Edwards settled on Schiele because the former legislator had successfully managed Edwards' 1971-1972 [[Governor|gubernatorial]] campaign in Concordia Parish.<ref name=cs>"Schiele to Succeed Cross in Appointment," ''The Concordia Sentinel,'' April 4, 1973, p. 1.</ref>
Sheriff Schiele won a full term in the 1975 election, but he was unseated in 1979 by fellow Democrat John Patrick, an [[insurance]] agent. He then completed his college degree and was employed thereafter by the Probation and Paroles section of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety. Schiele attempted a comeback in 1987, when he challenged incumbent Sheriff Hubert Lee McGlothin (1940-2004), who had previously been the [[mayor]] of Ferriday. In the 1987 contest, Schiele polled 1,155 votes (12.8 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> McGlothin resigned midway in his second term as sheriff as a result of a criminal conviction. The Concordia Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body, then appointed Randy Maxwell, effective August 31, 1990, to serve until a special election was held on March 21, 1991. In that all-Democrat contest, Maxwell defeated Schiele, 4,619 (62.9 percent) to 1,900 (25.9 percent). Two other candidates shared the remaining 11.3 percent of the vote.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, March 23, 1991.</ref> Maxwell was unopposed in the nonpartisan blanket primary for sheriff on October 19, 1991, and has since remained in the position though he has had close elections.<ref>{{cite web |url=
http://www.concordiasentinel.com/news.php?id=807|title=Joey Martin|title=Randy Maxwell: 'Still a lot to do'|publisher=''The Concordia Sentine''|date=October 18, 2007}}</ref>
==Death==
The probation and paroles division relocated the Schieles to [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], where he died of a massive heart attack at the age of sixty-eight. He was a [[United Methodist]]. After her husband’s death, Mrs. Schiele, a native of Natchez, [[Mississippi]], moved to Loranger to be near her two daughters. Schiele, like Sheriff Cross his predecessor, is interred at the Natchez City Cemetery across the Mississippi River from Vidalia.<ref>Natchez City Cemetery records, Natchez, Mississippi.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schiele, Fred}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:United Methodists]]
|name= Fred Lyle “Buddy” Schiele, Sr.
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for Concordia Parish
|term_start=1964
|term_end=1968
|preceded=S. P. "Jack" Crane
|succeeded=David I. Patten
|office2=[[Sheriff]] of Concordia Parish
|term_start2=April 6, 1973
|term_end2=July 1980
|preceded2=Noah W. Cross
|succeeded2=John Patrick
||birth_date=November 28, 1933
|birth_place=Vidalia, Concordia Parish<br> [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
|death_place=[[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA
|death_date=January 24, 2002 (aged 68)<br>
'''Resting place''':<br>
Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, [[Mississippi]]
|residence=Vidalia and Alexandria, Louisiana
|party= [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|religion=[[United Methodist]]
|occupation=[[Farmer]]; [[Sheriff]]|spouse= Maxine Smith Schiele (married 1954-2002, his death)<br>
'''Children''':<br>
Fred Schiele, Jr.<br>
Carole Ann Schiele Rice<br>
Patricia Leigh Schiele<br>
Alan Maxwell Schiele<br>
Steven Lowery Schiele, II<br>
'''Alma mater''': <br>
Vidalia High School<br>
[[Louisiana State University]]
|footnotes='''Notes''':<br>
*Schiele had already been a one-term state representative, when his former legislative colleague, [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]], tapped him to succeed Noah W. Cross as [[sheriff]] of Schiele’s native Concordia Parish in eastern [[Louisiana]].<br>
*Schiele managed Edwards’ [[gubernatorial]] campaign in Concordia Parish in 1971-1972.<br>
*After his seven years as sheriff, Shiele completed his college degree later in life and was employed thereafter by the Louisiana Department of Corrections.
}}
'''Fred Lyle Schiele, Sr.''', known also as '''Buddy Schiele''' (November 28, 1933 – January 24, 2002), served from 1964 to 1968 as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for Concordia Parish in eastern [[Louisiana]] adjacent to the [[Mississippi River]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1880-2020|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=October 30, 2019}}</ref>
Schiele (pronounced SHE LEE) did not seek reelection in the 1967 primary election but instead unsuccessfully opposed [[incumbent]] [[Sheriff]] Noah W. Cross of Ferriday, also in Concordia Parish. He won the sheriff's position in April 1973.
==Background==
Schiele was one of four sons born in Vidalia in Concordia Parish, to Catesby Edward Schiele and the former Lucille Rountree (1897-1977). In 1951, he graduated from Vidalia High School. Thirty years later, at the age of forty-eight, he procured his bachelor’s degree in [[business administration]] from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref>Statement of Fred Schiele, Jr., July 2008.</ref> Prior to his involvement in politics, Schiele ran a [[cotton]] gin in Ferriday. He also served on the board of First Federal Savings and Loan in Vidalia.<ref name=cs/>
In 1954, Schiele married the former Maxine Smith (1937-2009), a 1955 graduate of Vidalia High School. The couple had five children: Fred Schiele, Jr. (born 1955), a former deputy sheriff for his father and the appointed chief of police in Ferriday, who later entered the trucking business in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]; Carole Ann Schiele Rice (born 1960) and Patricia Leigh Schiele (born 1962), both of Loranger in Tangipahoa Parish; Alan Maxwell Schiele (born 1964), a deputy sheriff in East Baton Rouge Parish, and Steven Lowery Schiele, II (born 1975) of Port Vincent, a [[village]] in Livingston Parish. Steven is named for Steven Schiele, I, a first cousin who was killed in an [[automobile]] accident in 1971. There were also three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.<ref>'Fred Schiele, ''The Alexandria Town Talk ,'' January 5, 2002; statement of Maxine Smith Schiele, July 2008.</ref>
==Political life==
On April 6, 1973, more than five years after he first ran for sheriff of Concordia Parish, Schiele was appointed to the office by [[Governor of Louisiana|Governor]] [[Edwin Washington Edwards]], pending a [[special election]], after incumbent Noah Cross was forced to resign after twenty-five years in office because of the failure of the [[appeal]] of his federal conviction of [[perjury]].<ref>’’The Concordia Sentinel,'' April 11, 1973, p. 1.</ref> Edwards settled on Schiele because the former legislator had successfully managed Edwards' 1971-1972 [[Governor|gubernatorial]] campaign in Concordia Parish.<ref name=cs>"Schiele to Succeed Cross in Appointment," ''The Concordia Sentinel,'' April 4, 1973, p. 1.</ref>
Sheriff Schiele won a full term in the 1975 election, but he was unseated in 1979 by fellow Democrat John Patrick, an [[insurance]] agent. He then completed his college degree and was employed thereafter by the Probation and Paroles section of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety. Schiele attempted a comeback in 1987, when he challenged incumbent Sheriff Hubert Lee McGlothin (1940-2004), who had previously been the [[mayor]] of Ferriday. In the 1987 contest, Schiele polled 1,155 votes (12.8 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> McGlothin resigned midway in his second term as sheriff as a result of a criminal conviction. The Concordia Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body, then appointed Randy Maxwell, effective August 31, 1990, to serve until a special election was held on March 21, 1991. In that all-Democrat contest, Maxwell defeated Schiele, 4,619 (62.9 percent) to 1,900 (25.9 percent). Two other candidates shared the remaining 11.3 percent of the vote.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, March 23, 1991.</ref> Maxwell was unopposed in the nonpartisan blanket primary for sheriff on October 19, 1991, and has since remained in the position though he has had close elections.<ref>{{cite web |url=
http://www.concordiasentinel.com/news.php?id=807|title=Joey Martin|title=Randy Maxwell: 'Still a lot to do'|publisher=''The Concordia Sentine''|date=October 18, 2007}}</ref>
==Death==
The probation and paroles division relocated the Schieles to [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], where he died of a massive heart attack at the age of sixty-eight. He was a [[United Methodist]]. After her husband’s death, Mrs. Schiele, a native of Natchez, [[Mississippi]], moved to Loranger to be near her two daughters. Schiele, like Sheriff Cross his predecessor, is interred at the Natchez City Cemetery across the Mississippi River from Vidalia.<ref>Natchez City Cemetery records, Natchez, Mississippi.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schiele, Fred}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:United Methodists]]