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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Hendrix Marion "Mutt" Fowler, Sr.
|name=Hendrix Marion "Mutt" Fowler, Sr.
|image=H. M. Fowler of LA.jpg
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for<br>District 24 (Red River, De Soto, Bienville, and Sabine parishes)
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for<br>District 24 (Red River, De Soto, Bienville, and Sabine parishes)
|term_start=May 1972
|term_start=May 1972
Fowler worked for his brother, John R. Fowler (1912-1990), in the latter's drug store in Coushatta but subsequently in 1956 became an [[insurance]] agent. He turned over the insurance firm in 1982 to his son, H. M. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. (born December 6, 1943). He delivered papers for ''The Shreveport Times'' and was the Red River Parish agent for the Shreveport Production Credit Association.<ref name=obit/> Fowler in 1953 became mayor of Coushatta to succeed his brother, Douglas, and served for nineteen years. In the 1971-1972 election cycle, which brought [[Edwin Edwards]] to the governorship, he was elected to the legislature, in which he remained for fourteen years. In his last election in 1983, he defeated two intra-party rivals, "Dickie" Alexander and Ray Dyess. Fowler resigned from the House on April 1, 1986, to become executive director of the Sabine River Authority, a port commission on the Louisiana-[[Texas]] border governed by an 11-member board based in Many in Sabine Parish in western Louisiana.
Fowler worked for his brother, John R. Fowler (1912-1990), in the latter's drug store in Coushatta but subsequently in 1956 became an [[insurance]] agent. He turned over the insurance firm in 1982 to his son, H. M. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. (born December 6, 1943). He delivered papers for ''The Shreveport Times'' and was the Red River Parish agent for the Shreveport Production Credit Association.<ref name=obit/> Fowler in 1953 became mayor of Coushatta to succeed his brother, Douglas, and served for nineteen years. In the 1971-1972 election cycle, which brought [[Edwin Edwards]] to the governorship, he was elected to the legislature, in which he remained for fourteen years. In his last election in 1983, he defeated two intra-party rivals, "Dickie" Alexander and Ray Dyess. Fowler resigned from the House on April 1, 1986, to become executive director of the Sabine River Authority, a port commission on the Louisiana-[[Texas]] border governed by an 11-member board based in Many in Sabine Parish in western Louisiana.
==Troubles with Sabine River Authority==
==Troubles with Sabine River Authority==
Fowler died in September 2014 at the age of ninety-six. Except for his namesake grandson, H. M. Fowler III (who is buried at Wesley Chapel Cemetery in Red River Parish), the family is interred at Springville Cemetery just off U.S. Highway 71 in Coushatta.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=hm-fowler-mutt&pid=172500923&fhid=10234|title=H. M. "Mutt" Fowler|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=September 20, 2014}}</ref>
Fowler died in September 2014 at the age of ninety-six. Except for his namesake grandson, H. M. Fowler III (who is buried at Wesley Chapel Cemetery in Red River Parish), the family is interred at Springville Cemetery just off U.S. Highway 71 in Coushatta.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=hm-fowler-mutt&pid=172500923&fhid=10234|title=H. M. "Mutt" Fowler|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=September 20, 2014}}</ref>
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