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| birth_date = December 28, 1942

| death_date = March 27, 2016 (aged 73) | death_place =La Grange, Fayette County, [[Texas]]

| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]/ later [[Republican Party|Republican]]

| children=Including:Rebeccah F. Smith<br>Elizabeth A. Fuselier<br>Charles Fuselier, Jr. (born 1965) | religion=[[Episcopalian]]

Fuselier's father, Charles J. Joseph Fuselier(1918-1979), was resigned in 1978 as the St. Martin Parish sheriff prior to 1978, when he died in office. Charles A. Fuselier was elected sheriff in 1979 and took office in the summer of 1980, after the two-year interim period of SheriffAllan Sheriff Allan B. Durand (1919–2006). Durand had been chief deputy under the first Sheriff Fuselier and continued thereafter as first deputy under Charles A. Fuselier until Durand's retirement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pellerinfuneralhome.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=1072392|title=LifeLegacyLife Legacy: Allan B. Durand|publisher=pellerinfuneralhomePellerinfuneralhome.com|accessdate=December 8, 2013}}</ref> He was reelected in 1983 with more than 86 percent of the ballots cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10221983/10221983_50.html|title=Resultsfor Results for Election in St. Martin Parish|date=October 22, 1983|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=December 8, 2013}}</ref> In his last contested re-election in 1995, Fuselier polled more than 65 percent of the vote over three opponents.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10211995/10211995_50.html|title=Resultsfor Results for Election Date: 10/21/1995: St. Martin Parish|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=December 8, 2013}}</ref> He was succeeded by Ronald J. "Ronny" Theriot (born 1946), an [[Independent voter|Independent]] and former major with the LouisianaState Police, who assumed the office on October 16, 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10042003/10042003_50.html|title=Results for Election Date: 10/4/2003: St. Martin Parish|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=December 8,2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stmartinsheriff.org/about-us|title=About Us: Sheriff Ronald J. Theriot|publisher=Stmartinsheriff.org|accessdate=December 8, 2013}}</ref> In 1983, Fuselier oversaw the completion of a new jail; in 1990, the installation of a parish-wide [[911]] system; in 1991, the creation of a sheriff's substation, and in 1995, the construction of a facility for juveniles.In 1996, he received the "National Sheriff of the Year" award, an honor for which he expressed "shock". [[U.S. Representative]] Jimmy Hayes of Louisiana's since disbanded 7th congressional district honored Fuselier in a speech delivered on the floor of Congress. In his address, Hayes noted that Fuselier initiated a local partnership between the sheriff's office, the St. Martinville chief of police, and the [[American Association of Retired Persons]] to create the first TRIAD program in St. Martin Parish, seeks to prevent crimes against senior citizens.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://capitolwords.org/date/1996/04/16/E530_honoring-sheriff-charles-a-fuselier-sheriff-of-the/|title=Honoring Sheriff Charles A. Fuselier, Sheriff of the Year|publisher=Capitolwords.org|accessdate=December8, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.is/20131209023046/http://capitolwords.org/date/1996/04/16/E530_honoring-sheriff-charles-a-fuselier-sheriff-of-the/#|archive-date=December 9, 2013|dead-url=yes|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 1999, the St. Martin Parish sheriff's officeunder Fuselier became the first in Louisiana to receive the imprint of the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.<ref name=fourhclubs>{{cite web|url=http://www.lanewsbureau.com/inst/2008RS/HCR/00/08RS-HCR35_Enrolled.pdf|title=A Concurrent Resolution|publisher=lanewsbureau.com|accessdate=December 8, 2013}}</ref> He was named "Sheriff of the Year" in Louisiana by the [[Farm Bureau]]. He was a past president of the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association and a former board member of the National Sheriffs' Association. For thirty years, he was a member of the board of directors of Teche Bank.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvertiser/obituary.aspx?pid=179435084|title=Charles Fuselier obituary|date=March 30, 2016|publisher=''Lafayette Daily Advertiser''|accessdate=February 24, 2019}}</ref>

As a student from 1953 to 1959 at St. Martinville Senior High School, an entity of the St. Martin Parish School Board, Fuselier was active in [[4-H]]. Thereafter, as sheriff he was heavily involved in the promotionof 4-H programs. In 1981, he established the Charles Fuselier Livestock Award, named for his father, and the subsequent Charles Fuselier Scholarship in 2002. In 2008, he was inducted into the 4-H Hall of Fame, housed in a museum in AvoyellesParish south of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]].<ref name=fourhclubs/> In 2003, Fuselier was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, . As of 2014, only four other sheriffs have received this designation, Cat Doucet, L [[Leonard R. "Pop" Hataway, Harry Lee, and Jessel Ourso.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.louisianapoliticalmuseum.com/fame.php|title=Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame|publisher=louisianapoliticalmuseum.com|accessdate=December3, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220072323/http://www.louisianapoliticalmuseum.com/fame.php|archivedate=December 20, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Fuselier died at the age of seventy-three in La Grange in Fayette County, [[Texas]]. His remains are at the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in New Iberia, Louisiana, where his services were held.<ref name=obit/>

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