Morris Albert Lottinger Sr. (August 16, 1902 – November 1978),[1] was a Democratic attorney who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1936 until 1950 from his native Houma in Terrebonne Parish in South Louisiana.
For the last two years of his tenure, he was the Speaker of the chamber under Governor Earl Kemp Long.
[6] Lottinger ran for the House in the 1932 party primary but lost, 1,638 to 1,221, to Allen J. Ellender, a favorite of the Long faction of the Louisiana Democratic Party, who became Speaker in May of that year.
[9] a His son, Morris Lottinger Jr., represented District 52, including Terrebonne Parish, in the state House from 1971 to 1975.
[2] Thereafter, he was a judge of the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal, which includes his Terrebonne Parish.