10 Facts About Vic Stelly

Victor Theodore Stelly was an American politician who was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, best known for the since repealed Stelly Plan tax-shifting amendment.

Vic Stelly was a member of the Louisiana Board of Regents for Higher Education from 2007 through 2013, resigning before his term ended because he was dismayed at cuts to higher education.

In 2006, Stelly was selected to the Louisiana Political Hall of Fame.

Vic Stelly authored an amendment to the Louisiana State Constitution which became known as the Vic Stelly Plan.

Vic Stelly was born in Carencro, Louisiana, and moved to Zachary, Louisiana, when he was four years old.

Vic Stelly's father, Gordon Stelly, was a petro-chemical operator, and his mother Dorothea Olive Martin Stelly, was a stay-at-home mother.

Vic Stelly was an All-State football player at Zachary High School and graduated from Northwestern in Natchitoches where he played football.

Vic Stelly was an insurance agent for 25 years in Moss Bluff.

Vic Stelly died from complications of COVID-19 on December 26,2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana, just 15 hours before his wife Terry died of the same illness and sixteen days short of his 80th birthday.

Vic Stelly's papers are held by the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Frazar Memorial Library at McNeese State University.