A week after he entered hospice, Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards took his final breath this morning at the age of 93. 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 first term as governor began in 1971. Biographer Leo Honeycutt says Edwards took advantage of an oil boom in 1974 and changed the severance making Louisiana the most-cash-rich state in the nation. Edwards told Jim Engster in 2011 that he always looked out for the working class…
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.