Carl W. Bauer

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Carl Wiegmann Bauer
V.J. Bella
Louisiana State Senator for
District 21 (Assumption, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Terrebonne parishes)
In office
1972–1976
Preceded byHarvey Peltier Jr.
Succeeded byAnthony Guarisco Jr.
Personal details
Born
Carl Packard Wiegmann

(1933-10-04)October 4, 1933
Centerville, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, US
DiedJune 11, 2013(2013-06-11) (aged 79)
Lafayette, Louisiana
Cause of deathCancer
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses
  • Divorced from Jane Colvin Bauer Desonier[1]
  • Mary Jane Peacher Bauer (born c. 1949, married c. 1980–2013, his death)
RelationsRalph Norman Bauer and Margaret Wooster Bauer (adopted parents)
Residences
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Lawyer
  • Lobbyist
  • Businessman

Carl Wiegmann Bauer (October 4, 1933 – June 11, 2013) was a lawyer and businessman who served as a

lobbyist, specifically the "Coordinator of Governmental Relations," for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.[4]

Background

Born Carl Packard Wiegmann in rural

Sam Houston Jones and Jimmie Davis.[5] In 1929, as a freshman lawmaker, Ralph Bauer led the "Dynamite Squad" which sought to impeach and remove Governor Huey Pierce Long Jr., from office, but Long was spared conviction in the state Senate.[6]

In 1951, Bauer graduated from Franklin Senior High School. He then studied at

Reserve Officer Training Corps program, he was called into active duty in the United States Air Force. Bauer was trained as a navigator at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston, Texas. Until his release from duty in 1957, he was stationed in Waco, Texas, Panama City, Florida, and Sacramento, California. He thereafter finished his legal studies at LSU and joined the law firm Bauer and Bauer, named for his father and his uncle, Theodore Bauer.[5]

Public career

In 1966, freshman state Representative

Paul J. Hardy of St. Martin Parish. As a representative, Bauer was among sponsors of the 1971 law that created Acadiana as an official cultural and regional designation recognized by the state government.[4]

Bauer worked to four-lane

hurricane evacuation. The upgrade also prevents highway crashes that occur from crossovers and signals along U.S. 90.[4]

A few months after he entered the state Senate, in which he served alongside

Reconstruction. Treen and a Republican "search committee" had offered to support Bauer for the House seat in 1972 if the Democrat would switch parties, but Bauer remained Democrat and expected to face Treen in the general election.[8]

Bauer served as the chief lobbyist for twenty years at ULL, when he retired in 2010. Ray Authement, the former university president, termed Bauer "one of the most effective leaders, as far as grants and contracts, that we ever had."[4]

Bauer served on the boards of several financial institutions and a sugar-processing company. In addition to the Chamber of Commerce, Bauer was affiliated with many organizations over the years, including the Louisiana Bar Association, the Lafayette Economic Development Association, the Louisiana Enterprise Center, the Gulf and Great Plains legal foundations. In 1968, Bauer was named president of the LSU Foundation; he was later a member of the board of the USL Foundation. He was affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America and was a long-term member and past board chairman of Goodwill Industries of Acadiana. He was a member of the Masonic lodge, the Shriners, and Rotary International.[5]

Death

Ray Authement termed Bauer "courageous" for his struggles with cancer and failing eyesight. The loss of vision required that he learn to use a computer for the visually impaired.[4]

Bauer died at the age of seventy-nine.

Realtor whom he married c. 1980. He had six children, four from his first marriage and two from Mary Jane's former marriage to a man named "Heymann": Carla R. Bauer, of Atlanta, Georgia; Margaret Donovan Bauer of Greenville, North Carolina; Irene Colvin Bauer Casper and her husband, Trevor Allen Casper, of Lafayette; Theodore Norman "Ted" Bauer and his wife, Cassie, of Lafayette; Kelli Claire Heymann Dautreuil and her husband, Bryan, of Cecilia, Louisiana, and Blake Ronald Heymann and his wife, Kristi, of New Orleans. There were eight grandchildren. Bauer donated his body to medical science. A memorial service was held on June 14, 2013, at Asbury United Methodist Church
in Lafayette.

References

  1. ^ "Carl W. BAUER and Jane C. Bauer, Plaintiffs". charitableplanning.com. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
  2. ^ "Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812–2012" (PDF). house.louisiana.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 6, 2014. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
  3. ^ "Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880–2012" (PDF). legis.la.gov. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
  4. ^
    Shreveport Times
    . Retrieved June 13, 2013.
  5. ^
    Baton Rouge Morning Advocate
    . Retrieved June 13, 2013.
  6. . Retrieved June 14, 2013.
  7. ^ Louisiana Almanac, 2006
  8. Baton Rouge
    : Moran Publishing Company, 1979), p. 49.
  9. . Retrieved June 14, 2013.
Preceded by
Spencer G. Todd
Louisiana State Representative
for St. Mary Parish

Carl Wiegmann Bauer

1966–1972
Succeeded by
V.J. Bella
Preceded by Louisiana State Senator for
District 21 (Assumption, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Terrebonne parishes)

Carl Wiegmann Bauer

1972–1976
Succeeded by