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A tall, well proportioned man [and] totally gray. He dressed with a flair. He wore white linen suits, brightly colored ties and ankle high boots. It was not uncommon for him to have a small revolver in an ankle holster tucked inside a boot. . . . As a younger man, he was quite dashing with a dazzling smile. But his most arresting features were his eyebrows . . . thick and black [and] shaped like an upside down V and, combined with eyes that seemed to dance crazily when he grinned, gave him a devilish look."<ref>Ron Gomez, p. 70.</ref></blockquote>
A tall, well proportioned man [and] totally gray. He dressed with a flair. He wore white linen suits, brightly colored ties and ankle high boots. It was not uncommon for him to have a small revolver in an ankle holster tucked inside a boot. . . . As a younger man, he was quite dashing with a dazzling smile. But his most arresting features were his eyebrows . . . thick and black [and] shaped like an upside down V and, combined with eyes that seemed to dance crazily when he grinned, gave him a devilish look."<ref>Ron Gomez, p. 70.</ref></blockquote>
Gomez recalls a day in the House in the early 1980s when Wall pulled a pistol on Representative Carl Newton Gunter, Jr. (1938-1999) of Deville in Rapides Parish after Gunter inadvertently disconnected Wall's conference call with his banking colleagues.<ref name="Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71">Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71.</ref> At that point, the House sergeant-at-arms, Richard L. Barrios, and Representative John Clifford Ensminger, Sr., also of West Monroe, grabbed Wall to prevent him from harming the shaken Gunter.<ref name="Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71"/>
Gomez recalls a day in the House in the early 1980s when Wall pulled a pistol on Representative Carl Newton Gunter, Jr. (1938-1999) of Deville in Rapides Parish after Gunter inadvertently disconnected Wall's conference call with his banking colleagues.<ref name="Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71">Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71.</ref> At that point, the House sergeant-at-arms, Richard L. Barrios, and Representative [[John C. Ensminger]], Sr., also of West Monroe, grabbed Wall to prevent him from harming the shaken Gunter.<ref name="Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71"/>
===House Retirement Committee===
===House Retirement Committee===