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Fulco was a former member of the influential Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee. "He had been in politics nearly all his life. He did it to help people. He was one of the honest ones, and we're thankful for that," said Frank Fulco, Jr. (born 1937), of Shreveport.[3]
Fulco was a co-founder of Standard Printing Company and was active after 1929 in the Shreveport business community. He published community newspapers throughout the state, including the Broadmoor News, which served his own Shreveport neighborhood.[6] Fulco resided at 148 Pennsylvania Street in Broadmoor.[7]
Italian-American causes
Fulco was long active in fraternal and civic organizations, particularly the Progressive Men's Club. He traveled across Louisiana to promote good citizenship among young men of Italian descent. It was on a trip to Lake Charles that Fulco had met Josie. The government of Italy recognized Fulco's efforts with a "Certificate of Appreciation" presented in the chamber of the Louisiana House of Representative in Baton Rouge. In Shreveport, Fulco was the first inductee into the Italian-American Hall of Fame.[6] Son Frank, II, said that his father "did a lot for the Italian people. He lived his whole life doing favors for people."[3]
Political career
In 1936, Fulco was elected for a single four-year term to the Caddo Parish Police Jury, later the Caddo Parish Commission, the governing board of the parish. Fulco, at twenty-seven, was the youngest member of the body. One of his colleagues, Earl Williamson, of Vivian in north Caddo Parish, would serve on the board for some forty years. Williamson, like Fulco, was part of the Long faction.
Fulco's legislative tenure coincided with the administrations of GovernorsEarl Kemp Long, Jimmie Davis, and John J. McKeithen. Elected in 1956 and 1960, Fulco won his third term as part of a Caddo Parish five-member at-large delegation in the general election held on March 3, 1964. Fulco finished fourth among the five winners. Two Republicans, Morley A. Hudson and Taylor W. O'Hearn led the tabulations, followed by Democrats Algie D. Brown, Fulco, and future State Senator and U.S. SenatorJ. Bennett Johnston, Jr. Eliminated was the sixth-place candidate, veteran Representative Wellborn Jack, a Shreveport attorney. Fulco jokingly declared that "the elephant trampled us" but predicted that he could work well with both Hudson and O'Hearn despite their different parties. The Hudson and O'Hearn victories were attributed that year in part to the coattails of GOP gubernatorial nominee Charlton Lyons of Shreveport.[8]
In 1966, Fulco introduced legislation to extend homestead exemptions to veterans of the Vietnam War and the Cold War. He worked to build a school for the mentally retarded in northwestern Louisiana, to license out-of-state salespeople operating within Louisiana, and to eliminate the double sales tax paid by out-of-state residents who relocate to Louisiana and relicense their vehicles. [9]
Early in 1969, Governor John McKeithen replaced Fulco on the House Budget Committee with freshman Representative Lonnie O. Aulds, also of Shreveport. The matter sparked divisiveness in the Caddo Parish delegation, but McKeithen tried to smooth over the hard feelings with self-deprecating humor in an engagement in Shreveport in mid-February 1969.[10]
Losing to Art Sour
Fulco was defeated for a fifth term in 1972, in the newly-drawn single-member District 6 seat, by the strongly conservative Republican Arthur W. Sour, Jr., of Shreveport. Sour received 5,564 votes (53.2 percent) to Fulco's 4,886 (46.8 percent).[11] Fulco and Sour were both Catholics and both Byrd High School graduates.
In the campaign, Fulco seemed to ignore Sour's candidacy because the Republican had lost House races in 1964 and 1968. Reports surfaced that Fulco was instead attempting to line up commitments to become the new House Speaker, but he instead lost his seat in an unusually strong Republican year in Caddo Parish. Sour (1924–2000) had benefited from the election popularity of GOP gubernatorial nominee David C. Treen, who carried Shreveport in his first race for governor. The speakership in turn went to Fulco's fellow Democrat E.L. "Bubba" Henry of Jonesboro, the seat of Jackson Parish in north Louisiana. The position had opened after the Democratic primary runoff in which incumbentJohn S. Garrett of Haynesville in Claiborne Parish was unseated by the businesswoman Louise B. Johnson of Bernice in Union Parish.[12]
Constitutional convention
After his legislative defeat, Fulco rebounded to win a position as delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention held in 1973.[6]
The delegates wrote the Louisiana Constitution, which voters approved in 1974. Fulco's colleagues included future U.S. Representative and Governor Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III, then of Bossier City, future U.S. District JudgeTom Stagg of Shreveport, and Robert G. Pugh, a Shreveport lawyer who advised three governors and wrote much of the section on local and state government in the Constitution. Another delegate was House Speaker E.L. Henry, the man whose position Fulco had informally sought early in the previous year.
Obituary
Fulco died a week before his 91st birthday in a Shreveport hospital. He went into cardiac arrest while he was undergoing kidney dialysis. "He had diabetes, suffered several heart attacks. And two weeks ago, we put him in the hospital. His kidneys were failing," said Frank Fulco, Jr.[3]
Services were held on August 23, 1999, at the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Shreveport, with Father Pike Thomas officiating. Interment was at Forest Park Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers included two former legislative colleagues, Algie Brown of Shreveport (Fulco's fellow 1928 Byrd classmate) and L.D. "Buddy" Napper of Ruston, LSUS Chancellor Vincent Marsala, and then Caddo Parish SheriffDon Hathaway.[6]
In addition to his wife and son Frank, Fulco was survived by a younger son, Michael J. Fulco (born 1953)[13] and his wife, of Monroe, the seat of Ouachita Parish; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren,[6] and one brother, Charles R. Fulco (1922–2003) of Shreveport.[1]
↑ Frank Fulco, Sr., obituary, Shreveport Times, August 22, 1999
1 2 3 4 5 Frank Fulco, Sr., obituary, Shreveport Times, August 22, 1999.
↑ William McCleary, "The Broadmoor Neighborhood: One of Shreveport's Older Communities", North Louisiana History, Vol. XLII (Winter-Spring 2011), p. 5.
↑ Louisiana Election Statistics, March 3, 1964, Baton Rouge: Secretary of State; Shreveport Journal, March 4, 1964, p. 1.
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