Easy Reelection Victories
Fowler faced little difficulty in being reelected in the primaries held in 1983, 1987, 1991 or 1995. In 1987, his tally exceeded one million votes: 1,079,851 (83 percent) against fellow Democrat James Alan "Jim" Rentz (1933–2011), a native of Ruston and a United States Navy veteran of the Korean War, who polled 217,886 ballots (17 percent). Like Fowler, Rentz was a former professional football player. He was a former employee of the Louisiana Department of Education in Baton Rouge, where he had long resided.
In 1991, Republican Steve Young challenged Fowler in the jungle primary but also fared poorly. Fowler received 940,309 votes (72 percent) to Young's 372,480 (28 percent). In 1995, Fowler won again over Republican candidate Wray M. Anderson (born 1953) of Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish: 954,076 (75 percent) to 323,422 (25 percent). Anderson was cited after the campaign for failing to file a proper financial statement.
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