Lether Frazar

Lether Frazar

Lether Edward Frazar (December 1, 1904 – May 15, 1960) was the Democratic lieutenant governor of Louisiana under Governor Earl Kemp Long from 1956–1960, who had earlier, as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Beauregard Parish, authored the state teacher retirement law. Frazar was also the fourth president of McNeese State University (then McNeese State College) in Lake Charles. He served at McNeese from 1944–1955, when he resigned to prepare to become lieutenant governor. He was also the second president of his alma mater, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then Southwestern Louisiana Institute), having served from 1938-1941.

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