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'''Thomas Wafer Fuller''' (May 28, 1867 – December 20, 1920)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29373147/thomas-wafer-fuller|title=Minden Editor Dies Suddenly|publisher=''The Bienville Democrat,'' in Findagrave.com|accessdate=March 21, 2020}}</ref> was an [[educator]] and [[newspaper]]man from [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], [[Louisiana]],<ref name=jagan>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindenmemories.org/images/teachers/teachers.htm|title=Webster Parish historian John Emerson Agan, "Webster Superintendents of Schools"|publisher=mindenmemories.org|accessdate=June 6, 2011; website closed; information no longer available}}</ref> who served as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the Louisiana State Senate from 1896 to 1900.<ref name=legis>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Senate Directory 1880-Present|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=March 21, 2020}}</ref>
'''Thomas Wafer Fuller''' (May 28, 1867 – December 20, 1920)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29373147/thomas-wafer-fuller|title=Minden Editor Dies Suddenly|publisher=''The Bienville Democrat,'' in Findagrave.com|date=December 23, 1920|accessdate=March 21, 2020}}</ref> was an [[educator]] and [[newspaper]]man from [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], [[Louisiana]],<ref name=jagan>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindenmemories.org/images/teachers/teachers.htm|title=Webster Parish historian John Emerson Agan, "Webster Superintendents of Schools"|publisher=mindenmemories.org|accessdate=June 6, 2011; website closed; information no longer available}}</ref> who served as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the Louisiana State Senate from 1896 to 1900.<ref name=legis>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Senate Directory 1880-Present|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=March 21, 2020}}</ref>
Fuller's Senate colleague from Bossier Parish was John Augustus Way Lowry, Jr. (1848-1899), known as J.A. W. Lowry;; the two represented Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster parishes. Thereafter, a single-member district was created for Bossier and Webster parishes with Elam Sparks "E.S." Dortch (1841-1943) of Haughton in southeastern Bossier Parish as the senator from 1900 to 1908. One of the Senate colleagues of Fuller and Lowry was Samuel McCutcheon Lawrason (1852-1924), who represented East and West Feliciana parishes, the author of the Lawrason Act, which defines the scope of municipal government in Louisiana.<ref name=legis/>
Fuller's Senate colleague from Bossier Parish was John Augustus Way Lowry, Jr. (1848-1899), known as J.A. W. Lowry;; the two represented Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster parishes. Thereafter, a single-member district was created for Bossier and Webster parishes with Elam Sparks "E.S." Dortch (1841-1943) of Haughton in southeastern Bossier Parish as the senator from 1900 to 1908. One of the Senate colleagues of Fuller and Lowry was Samuel McCutcheon Lawrason (1852-1924), who represented East and West Feliciana parishes, the author of the Lawrason Act, which defines the scope of municipal government in Louisiana.<ref name=legis/>