Career
His tenure corresponded with the first administration of Governor John McKeithen. Parker owned a coin shop and was president of the Alexandria Association, an organization of merchants. He was also a deputy for the Rapides Parish Sheriff"s office and a radio news commentator.
Parker died at the age of seventy-four at the Alexandria Veterans Affairs Medical Center, located across the Red River in Pineville, Louisiana.
Mistress Parker died in Rogers, Arkansas, also at the age of seventy-four. Larry and Sylvia Parker are interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Ball north of Pineville in Rapides Parish.
Former State Senator B. G. Dyess, a Southern Baptist pastor, officiated at Mistress Snyder"s funeral service on February 14, 2011.
In 1966, Parker ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Louisiana"s 8th congressional district, since disbanded.
He lost to the one-term incumbent, Speedy Long of LaSalle Parish. In the spring of 1977, Parker ran for mayor of Alexandria in an all-Democratic contest in which Carroll East. Lanier unseated John K. Snyder.