{{Short description|American politician (1904–1960)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{no footnotes|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | order = | office = 44th [[Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana]] | birth_name = Lether Edward Frazar | birth_date = {{birth date|1904|12|1}} | birth_place = [[DeRidder, Louisiana]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1960|05|15|1904|12|01}} | term_start = May 8, 1956 | term_end = May 10, 1960 | governor = [[Earl K. Long]] | predecessor = [[C. E. Barham]] | successor = [[Clarence C. Aycock|Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock]] | office2 = [[Louisiana House of Representatives|Louisiana State Representative for Beauregard Parish]] | term_start2 = 1936 | term_end2 = 1940 | preceded2 = Monette Jones | succeeded2 = Stuart S. Kay | occupation = Educator, college president | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | spouse = Lily Hooper Frazar (1904–1994) | children = 2 }}
'''Lether Edward Frazar''' (December 1, 1904 – May 15, 1960) was a [[Louisiana]] politician who served as the 44th [[lieutenant governor of Louisiana]]. Frazar served in the [[Louisiana House of Representatives]].<ref name="Museum">{{cite web |title=Frazar left legacy in education |url=https://beauregardmuseum.org/f/frazar-left-legacy-in-education |website=Frazar Garden Museum |access-date=3 February 2023}}{{dead link|date=February 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> His Ph.D. was from [[Columbia University]]. He was president of the [[University of Louisiana at Lafayette]] from 1938 to 1941 and of [[McNeese State University]] from 1944 to 1955.
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==Sources== *"Lether Edward Frazar", ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. I (1988), p. 319 *[http://library.mcneese.edu/depts/archive/frazarle087.htm Lether E. Frazar Collection] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110201093810/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,869040,00.html Earl's Whirl] *[http://www.louisiana.edu/AboutUs/History/Presidents.shtml University of Louisiana - presidents] *[https://archive.today/20020430085814/http://www.geauxcowboys-eastside.org/fbq022.asp 2002 McNeese Football Banquet] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080610164135/http://www.louisiana.edu/AboutUs/History/General.shtml University of Louisiana] *[http://geology.louisiana.edu/alumnifriends/rocktour/broussard.shtml Broussard Hall] *{{cite web|url=http://www.6294.biz/Tau%20Sigma%20Delta%20Fraternity%20History.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930004217/http://www.6294.biz/Tau%20Sigma%20Delta%20Fraternity%20History.htm|title=Tau Sigma Delta Fraternity|archivedate=September 30, 2007}} *[http://www.mcneese.edu/faculty/facultybook/support.htm McNeese State University Faculty/Staff Handbook] *[http://www.beau.org/~cemetery/ALFA-F.HTM Listing of all Headstones located in Beauregard Parish] *http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?p=lether+e.+frazar&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&u=www.burkfoster.com/StruckbyLightning.htm&w=lether+e+frazar&d=AaAyv0VuN1tv&icp=1&.intl=us *[http://www.dequincynews.com/cent/pruitt.htm Douglass-Pruitt House] {{Portalbar|Biography|Education|Politics}}
{{s-start}} {{s-ppo}} {{s-bef|before=[[C. E. Barham]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] nominee for [[Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana]]|years=1956}} {{s-aft|after=[[Taddy Aycock]]}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before = [[C. E. Barham]] | title = [[Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana]] | years = 1956–1960 | after = [[Clarence C. Aycock|Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock]] }} {{succession box |before=Monette Jones |title=[[Louisiana House of Representatives|Louisiana State Representative for Beauregard Parish]] |years=1936–1940 |after=Stuart S. Kay }} {{succession box | before = Dr. Rodney Cline (1941–1944) | title = President of McNeese State University (previously McNeese State College) in Lake Charles, Louisiana) | years = 1944–1955 | after = Dr. Wayne N. Cusic (1955–1969) }} {{succession box | before = Edwin Lewis Stephens | title = President of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (previously Southwestern Louisiana Institute) | years = 1938–1941 | after = Joel L. Fletcher }} {{s-end}} {{Lieutenant Governors of Louisiana}}
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