Former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards passed away this morning at the age of 93. It was a week ago today that Edwards entered hospice care. The former four-term Governor died at his home in Gonzales surrounded by close family and friends. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Advocate reporter Tyler Bridges remembers former Governor Edwin Edwards, who he says was the most important political figure in Louisiana since Huey P. Long…
Edwin Edwards’ biographer Leo Honeycutt says the Silver Fox was lucid last week with his visitors at his home in Ascension Parish, but a couple of days ago he stopped eating. He says his last words were to his seven-year-old son, Eli…
Honeycutt wrote a best-selling biography on Edwin Edwards’s life that was released in 2009.
Edwards served four terms as governor, but also eight years in prison after he was convicted on racketeering charges for corrupting the state’s riverboat gaming licensing process.
After serving as a state senator and in the U-S House of Representatives, Edwards was elected as governor in 1971 and began the first of four terms in 1972.