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|birth_date=January 31, 1935

|birth_date=January 31, 1935

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|death_date=

|death_date=August 27, 2023 (aged 88)

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|death_place=[[New Orleans]], Louisiana

|residence=Gretna, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana  

|residence=Gretna, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana  

|spouse= Not first wife:<br>

|spouse=Not first wife:<br>

Barbara Turner Windhorst

Barbara Turner Windhorst

|children=[[Stephen J. Windhorst]]

|children=[[Stephen J. Windhorst]]

|footnotes='''Notes''':<br>

|footnotes='''Notes''':<br>

* Windhorst voted as a [[conservative]] in both social and economic matters while he served from 1972 to 1992 as a state senator for [[suburb]]an Jefferson Parish.

* Windhorst voted as a [[conservative]] in both social and economic matters while he served from 1972 to 1992 as a state senator for [[suburb]]an Jefferson Parish.

* After Windhorst's retirement, a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] won Windhorst’s state Senate seat, and the district became increasingly [[African American]].

* After Windhorst's retirement, a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] won Windhorst’s state Senate seat, and the district became increasingly [[African American]] in composition.

* As Windhorst left the Senate, his son, Stephen Windhorst, began a nine-year legislative career in the Louisiana House of Representatives in a different district, and was  elected judge in October 2000.  

* As Windhorst left the Senate, his son, Stephen Windhorst, began a nine-year legislative career in the Louisiana House of Representatives in a different district, and was  elected judge in October 2000.  

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'''Fritz Heinrich Windhorst''' (born January 31, 1935) is an [[attorney]] in Gretna in [[suburb]]an Jefferson Paris outside [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/fritz-windhorst-710773|title=Fritz Windhorst|publisher=lawyers.justia.com|accessdate=November 22, 2020}}</ref> who served from 1972 to 1992 as a state senator for Jefferson and Orleans parishes, originally District 8, and later District 7. Windhorst was a [[conservative]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] from 1972 to 1985, when he switched to [[Republican Party|Republican]] affiliation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2024|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=November 22, 2020}}</ref> His son, [[Stephen J. Windhorst]], served as a Republican state representative from 1992 to 2000, when he resigned to accept a state court judgeship.

'''Fritz Heinrich Windhorst''' (January 31, 1935 &mdash; August 27, 2023)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obits.theadvocate.com/us/obituaries/theadvocate/name/fritz-windhorst-obituary?id=52979561|title=Fritz Windhorst obituary|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=August 29, 2023|accessdate=August 30, 2023}}</ref> was an [[attorney]] in Gretna in [[suburb]]an Jefferson Paris outside [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/fritz-windhorst-710773|title=Fritz Windhorst|publisher=lawyers.justia.com|accessdate=November 22, 2020}}</ref> who served from 1972 to 1992 as a state senator for Jefferson and Orleans parishes, originally District 8, and later District 7. Windhorst was a [[conservative]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] from 1972 to 1985, when he switched to [[Republican Party|Republican]] affiliation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2024|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=November 22, 2020}}</ref> His son, [[Stephen J. Windhorst]], served as a Republican state representative from 1992 to 2000, when he resigned to accept a state court judgeship.

==Family background==

==Family background==

When Windhorst retired in 1991, two-term Democratic State Representative Francis C. Heitmeier was elected to the position with 55 percent of the vote in the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] against five opponents. The lone Republican candidate hoping to succeed Windhorst finished with fewer than 17 percent of the ballots.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref> Because African-American influence in the Westbank increased throughout the 1990s, Heitmeier won with 58 percent of the vote in the 1995 primary and faced no opponents in 1999 and 2003. Heitmeier was term-limited in 2007.

When Windhorst retired in 1991, two-term Democratic State Representative Francis C. Heitmeier was elected to the position with 55 percent of the vote in the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] against five opponents. The lone Republican candidate hoping to succeed Windhorst finished with fewer than 17 percent of the ballots.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref> Because African-American influence in the Westbank increased throughout the 1990s, Heitmeier won with 58 percent of the vote in the 1995 primary and faced no opponents in 1999 and 2003. Heitmeier was term-limited in 2007.

Windhorst is Roman Catholic and a member of the West Bank Rotary International.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rotarywestbank.org/pdf/2006/041106.pdf|title=The West Bank Rotator: Service Before Self|publisher=rotarywestbank.org|accessdate=October 16, 2009; material no longer accessible on-line}}</ref>

Windhorst was a Roman Catholic and a member of the West Bank Rotary International.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rotarywestbank.org/pdf/2006/041106.pdf|title=The West Bank Rotator: Service Before Self|publisher=rotarywestbank.org|accessdate=October 16, 2009; material no longer accessible on-line}}</ref>

==References==

==References==