death_date children birth_date term_end alma_mater death_place preceded term_start spouse image name occupation resting_place succeeded relations birth_place party office parents religion article_title
26 january 2009 susannah fowler craig margaret fowler abrahams john marston fowler 26 april 1940 2000 coushatta high school baton rouge , east baton rouge parish , louisiana wiley douglas fowler , sr. 1980 -lrb- -lrb- 2 -rrb- mariann santangelo fowler -lrb- 1937-2005 -rrb- 1 -rrb- sue fowler , now sue weaver jerry_fowler . png jerry marston fowler businessman ; politician ; athlete cremation suzanne haik terrell h. m. fowler -lrb- uncle -rrb- shreveport , caddo parish , louisiana , usa democrat louisiana elections commissioner douglas fowler -lrb- 1906-1976 -rrb- fowler -lrb- 1906-1980 -rrb- , and abbie marston united methodist jerry fowler

jerry fowler

jerry marston fowler -lrb- april 26 , 1940 -- january 26 , 2009 -rrb- was a baton rouge businessman who served as louisiana 's state elections commissioner from 1980 until his defeat in the 1999 nonpartisan blanket primary .
he was part of the fowler family democratic political dynasty .
fowler vacated the position in 2000 and was thereafter indicted , convicted and imprisoned for bribery and income tax evasion in a scandal that grew out of acceptance of kickbacks on the purchase of voting machines .
fowler succeeded his ailing father , wiley douglas fowler , sr. , as elections commissioner .
collectively , the fowlers , who hailed from coushatta , the parish seat of rural red river parish , served forty-one years in the position , originally called the `` custodian of voting machines . ''
