Charles Buddy Roemer
FILE – In this March 3, 2012 file photo, former Louisiana Gov. Charles “Buddy” Roemer gestures during a news conference in Baton Rouge, La. Roemer, a Harvard-educated reform-minded politician whose one tumultuous term as Louisiana’s governor was marked by bruising political battles over taxes, budgets and abortion, died Monday, May 17, 2021, at age 77. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)