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==Politics==
==Politics==
[[Image:Myrtis Orr of LA.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Mrs. Orr in her later years]]
Orr contested the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] in October 1987, and received 5,846 votes (44 percent), comfortably beating incumbent William R. Sumlin's 4,176 votes (31%). As a result, Sumlin did not contest the November election, and Orr was automatically declared representative-elect without a second round of voting.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>
Orr contested the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] in October 1987, and received 5,846 votes (44 percent), comfortably beating incumbent William R. Sumlin's 4,176 votes (31%). As a result, Sumlin did not contest the November election, and Orr was automatically declared representative-elect without a second round of voting.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>
==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Orr and his wife, the former Myrtis Chandler (born 1924), a former home economics teacher, had two daughters, Virginia Orr Rice of [[Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]], the widow of Ed Orr, and Marilyn Orr Hyams and husband Bill of Ruston. He was active in the Temple Baptist Church in Ruston, where he was at times a [[Sunday school]] teacher and a [[deacon]].<ref name=rdl/> The Louisiana Tech Alumni Association awarded Myrtis Orr with the Tower Medallion in 2018, which Virgil Orr had received in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://spark.adobe.com/page/bN1pd2IrOWrjy/|title=Myrtis Orr Joins Hall of Distinguished Alumni|publisher=The Tenent|date=April 2018|accessdate=May 4, 2021}}</ref>
Orr and his wife, the former Myrtis Chandler (born 1924), a former home economics teacher, had two daughters, Virginia Orr Rice of [[Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]], the widow of Ed Orr, and Marilyn Orr Hyams and husband Bill of Ruston. He was active in the Temple Baptist Church in Ruston, where he was at times a [[Sunday school]] teacher and a [[deacon]].<ref name=rdl/> The Louisiana Tech Alumni Association awarded Myrtis Orr with the Tower Medallion in 2018, which Virgil Orr had received in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://spark.adobe.com/page/bN1pd2IrOWrjy/|title=Myrtis Orr Joins Hall of Distinguished Alumni|publisher=The Tenent|date=April 2018|accessdate=May 4, 2021}}</ref>