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Waller ran successfully for the state House of Representatives in the 1967-1968 election cycle, when Democrats swept the Caddo Parish offices. He served in the House during the second administration of [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]]. Voted out was the [[Republican Party|Republican]] state Representative Taylor Walters O'Hearn (1907-1997) of Shreveport, who had served the preceding four-year term from 1964 to 1968. A second Republican representative [[Morley Hudson]] did not seek a second term in 1968. When Waller left the House in 1972, two other Republicans were elected in single-member districts in Caddo Parish, [[B. F. O'Neal, Jr.]], and Arthur William "Art" Sour (1924-2000).<ref name=house/>
Waller ran successfully for the state House of Representatives in the 1967-1968 election cycle, when Democrats swept the Caddo Parish offices. He served in the House during the second administration of [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]]. Voted out was the [[Republican Party|Republican]] state Representative Taylor Walters O'Hearn (1907-1997) of Shreveport, who had served the preceding four-year term from 1964 to 1968. A second Republican representative [[Morley Hudson]] did not seek a second term in 1968. When Waller left the House in 1972, two other Republicans were elected in single-member districts in Caddo Parish, [[B. F. O'Neal, Jr.]], and Arthur William "Art" Sour (1924-2000).<ref name=house/>
Waller was a member of the Caddo Parish Levee Board under Governors [[Jimmie Davis]], John McKeithen, and [[Dave Treen|David C. Treen]].<ref name=obit/>
Waller was a member of the Caddo Parish Levee Board under Governors [[Jimmie Davis]], John McKeithen, and [[David C. Treen]].<ref name=obit/>
==Personal life==
==Personal life==