Carl Buell Close Sr. (October 17, 1907 – December 28, 1980), was a Democratic politician from Alexandria, Louisiana, who served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1944 to 1947,[1] when he stepped down to become the mayor of his adopted city of Alexandria, a post he held until 1953.

Close was born in rural Robertsville near Morrilton in Conway County in north central Arkansas.

In 1935, Carl Close married Sarah Ella Jordan (1907-1959) of Atkins in Pope County, Arkansas.

[2] The junior Close graduated from Bolton High School in Alexandria and Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, was an officer in the United States Air Force, and worked as data processing specialist in Alexandria, where he died in 2000 at the age of sixty-three.

[5] Two weeks later, W. W. Thomas at the municipal airport seeded a cloud with forty pounds of dry ice.