Jack M. Dyer is a Democrat

Democratic Party (United States)

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 who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives

Louisiana State Legislature

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 from East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

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, from 1960-1964.

As a young attorney, Dyer had worked to elect Bill Dodd as Louisiana state auditor in the 1956 Democratic primary

Primary election

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, when Dodd, a former lieutenant governor

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, unseated the incumbent

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 Allison R. Kolb

Allison Kolb

Allison Ray Kolb was the Democratic auditor of Louisiana from 1952 to 1956, who angered many local officials in the pursuit of his job duties and was hence defeated by former Lieutenant Governor William J. "Bill" Dodd in the 1956 party primary...

 of Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...

. Kolb later switched parties and ran unsuccessfully for state treasurer

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 in 1968 against the Democrat, Mary Evelyn Parker

Mary Evelyn Parker

Mary Evelyn Dickerson Parker is a former Democratic state treasurer of Louisiana, having served from 1968-1987. She was the first woman to have held the position. Prior to her tenure as treasurer, she held several appointed positions in state government...

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In 1960, Dyer was elected to the legislature but served only one term. Instead of seeking reelection, he ran unsuccessfully in 1963-1964 for the position of insurance commissioner

Insurance commissioner

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, then held by Rufus D. Hayes

Rufus D. Hayes

Rufus D. Hayes was an attorney, judge, and businessman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who served as his state’s insurance commissioner from 1957-1964. He was also a former district attorney in East Baton Rouge Parish and in 1958 the Louisiana Democratic state chairman...

, a former district attorney

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 in East Baton Rouge Parish. Dyer and Speedy O. Long

Speedy O. Long

Speedy Oteria Long was a Jena lawyer who was a Democratic U.S. Representative from central Louisiana between 1965 and 1973. Prior to his tenure in the since disbanded Eighth Congressional District, Speedy Long had been a member of the Louisiana state Senate...

, thereafter later a U.S. Representative from the defunct 8th congressional district

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, were defeated by Dudley A. Guglielmo

Dudley A. Guglielmo

Dudley Anthony Guglielmo, Sr. , was the Louisiana insurance commissioner from 1964 to 1972. He served two terms until he was denied renomination in the 1971 Democratic primary by Sherman A. Bernard, a house mover from Westwego in Jefferson Parish...

. Dyer ran on the intraparty ticket of former New Orleans

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 Mayor

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 deLesseps Story Morrison, while Long joined the opposing John J. McKeithen slate. When Speedy Long was elimnated from the runoff election between Dyer and Guglielmo, McKeithen endorsed Guglielmo. Others on the Morrison ticket were Claude B. Duval

Claude B. Duval

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 for lieutenant governor, who lost to incumbent C.C. "Taddy" Aycock

Clarence C. Aycock

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, and Raymond Laborde

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Raymond Julian Laborde, I , is a department store owner and a retired Democratic politician in his native Marksville, the seat of Avoyelles Parish in south Central Louisiana. He was the mayor of Marksville from 1958–1970 and thereafter served five terms from 1972–1992 in the Louisiana House of...

, the mayor of Marksville

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 and later a state representative, for custodian of voting machines. Laborde had advocated abolition of the new office but was defeated by incumbent Douglas Fowler

Douglas Fowler

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 of Coushatta

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 in Red River Parish

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 in north Louisiana. Originally an appointee to the position of Governor Earl Kemp Long, Fowler held the post until 1980, when it then passed for twenty more years to his son, Jerry M. Fowler

Jerry Fowler

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The author is unable to find information on Dyer after 1964. He is mentioned as a friend of Aubrey W. Young

Aubrey W. Young

Aubrey Walsworth Young was a public official in the U.S. state of Louisiana, who between 1965 and 1999 established multiple drug and alcohol treatment programs through the Department of Health and Hospitals. A political activist, Young organized his contacts from Alcoholics Anonymous to support...

 in Young's 2010 obituary

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