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November 17, 2024

Ex-Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards died; knew power and prison

July 12, 2021 Kevin McGill, Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS, La. — 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. He was 93. Edwards […]

Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer has died at 77

May 18, 2021 Kevin McGill, Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Buddy 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 at age 77. His son, Chas […]