Former Gov. Edwin Edwards, the charismatic rogue who served four terms in the Capitol as well as a stint in federal prison for corruption, can still pack a room. More than 500 people, among them ...

She was a Washington Mardi Gras queen, a model, an actress, a high school teacher – and the second oldest child of Edwin Edwards, the only four-term governor in Louisiana history. Now at 71, Victoria ...

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NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana's only four-term governor, Edwin Edwards, is turning 90-years-old on Aug. 7. To say he is a colorful character is an understatement. Edwards, who was always dogged by ...

Under the state Constitution Edwin Edwards will be almost 100 before he is allowed to run for a fifth term as governor. The implications should be obvious. We must draft a constitutional amendment and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana will implement closed-party primaries for all federal elections and elections for the ...

50 years after he first won a congressional seat, Edwin Edwards is asking voters to send him back to Washington. The four-time former governor is a Louisiana legend, but – as Sue Lincoln reports – it ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has agreed to cut short former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards’ court supervision following his release from prison. Sunny Hostin says Wisconsin Supreme Court ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Washington Edwards died peacefully Monday morning, July 12, 2021. Edwin was at his home in Gonzales surrounded by family and friends. Louisiana’s ...

Edwards was the last in a long line of colorful populist Democrats who once dominated Louisiana politics. He served four terms as governor, and... Edwin Edwards, The Larger-Than-Life Former Louisiana ...