Carl Newton Gunter Jr. (October 16, 1938 – July 6, 1999), was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 1992.

[1][2] In 1957, Gunter married his high school sweetheart, the former Jessie Paulk (born 1940), and they had six children.

Gunter worked as an offshore roustabout and opened a business called Pineville Motor Parts.

Gunter's advocates argue that he was asserting that fetuses conceived within an incestuous relationship should also have a right to life.

Former colleague Claude "Buddy" Leach of Leesville, who delivered Gunter's eulogy, told how Gunter once threatened Governor Edwin Washington Edwards into removing businessman Joe D. Smith Jr., then publisher of the local newspaper, Alexandria Daily Town Talk from the[7] LSU Board of Supervisors.