Career
Munson was at the peak of his political power as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee early in the John McKeithen administration. Munson suddenly resigned from office in September 1973. Through a special election, Dyer held the seat until 1980, when Charles West. DeWitt, Junior. of south Rapides Parish was elected to the post.
DeWitt was years later the House Speaker.
The Dyer sons included Wilbur Ronald "Pete" Dyer (born September 1942) of Baton Rouge, and Walter Frederick "Fred" Dyer (1937-2016), formerly a banker in Alexandria and charter member and past president of the Cenla Cosmopolitan Club. Dyer died at the age of seventy-seven, five years after his legislative tenure had ended.
