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July 12, 2021 6:15 PM By KEVIN McGILL
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Gerald Herbert
In this Aug. 23, 2011, photo, former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, 84, and his wife Trina Scott Edwards, 32, right, serve as honorary bartenders at Molly s On The Market Bar during a Press Club of New Orleans function in New Orleans. Edwin Washington Edwards, the high-living four-term governor whose three-decade dominance of Louisiana politics was all but overshadowed by scandal and an eight-year federal prison stretch, died Monday, July 12, 2021 . He was 93. Edwards died of respiratory problems with family and friends by his bedside, family spokesman Leo Honeycutt said. He had suffered bouts of ill health in recent years and entered hospice care this month at his home in Gonzales, near the Louisiana capital.
Originally published on July 13, 2021 12:59 am
A populist firebrand of Louisiana politics has died. Four-term Democratic Gov. Edwin Edwards, who also served prison time for corruption, died Monday at his home in Gonzales, La. He was 93. A statement from his family said he d been in hospice care for the past week with respiratory problems.
Edwards was the last of the larger-than-life populists who once dominated Louisiana politics. He built his career on political patronage, public works and sheer force of personality. I m of the people. I m common. I m ordinary. I don t speak good English,
cher, he said at age 87, employing his wayward charm trying to stage a political comeback.
Lafayette Daily Advertiser
Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, the charismatic Cajun rogue who served a record four terms in the Capitol as well as a stint in federal prison for corruption, died Monday morning. He was 93.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Edwards, who entered hospice care last week.
Edwards, the state’s last populist Democratic governor in the tradition of Huey Long and Earl Long, served consecutive terms from 1972 to 1980 and single terms from 1984 to 1988 and 1992 to 1996.
Before that he served as a state senator from Crowley and then represented Acadiana in Congress from 1965 to 1972.
“I’ve had a great life,” Edwards said in an interview with USA Today Network on his 90th birthday in 2017. “I ve been around the world six times and in every state and there s not a better place in America and the world than Louisiana.”
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