Chris Faser

Background

Faser was born in Monroe in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, one of three children of Chris Faser, Senior (1884-1955), a plane crash victim, and the former Pearl Wrenn (1887-1958), a native of Bolivar County, Mississippi.

Career

The senior Fasers relocated in 1940 from Monroe to Winona in Montgomery County in north central Mississippi, where they operated a pharmacy business. Davis soon left the Christian Social Party to run successfully for governor. Faser became a confidant of the Davis campaign, which pushed to victory in a Democratic runoff election over the Covington lawyer Lewis L. Morgan.

He then became Governor Davis"s chief of staff

During this time, he was elected to the Mississippi legislature. In 1968, Faser was elected to one of seven seats for East Baton Rouge Parish in the Louisiana House.

Though he served for only one term, he was the floor leader for Davis"s successor as governor, Democrat John McKeithen.Upon leaving the legislature, Faser became the manager of the Capitol House Hotel and the Bellemont Motor Hotel, both in Baton Rouge. Governor Edwin Edwards, McKeithen"s successor, appointed Faser to serve on the Louisiana Tourist Development Commission.

Chris Faser, III, was an employee of the Louisiana Department of Insurance who retired to rural Batchelor in Pointe Coupee Parish, where he died at the age of seventy-four late in 2014.

Faser also had two step-children, Jamie Taber Tarwater (born July 1961) and Ronald (last name not mentioned in obituary). His honorary pallbearers included Louisiana politicians Donald Ray Kennard, West. Fox McKeithen, Francis C. Thompson, Aubrey West. Young, Robert "Bobby" Freeman, B. B. "Sixty" Rayburn, Risley C. Triche, Eugene McGehee, and Colonel Bo Garrison of the Louisiana State Police.

Membership

In 1942, Chris Faser, Junior., at the age of twenty-five was a staff member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission in Baton Rouge, when singer-politician Jimmie Davis, then of Shreveport, joined the commission as one of the then three (since five) elected members. He also was a board member of the Louisiana Retired State Employees Association and became the first vice president of that organization before Alzheimer"s disease compelled his retirement.

Connections

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Story Morrison, William