Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards laid to rest
LOUISIANAIANS. >> I’VE ALWAYS KNOWN HIM TO BE A STRONG INDIVIDUAL, BOTH ARTICULATE AND HIS MINDO S SHARP. IT WAS DIFFICULT TO SEE HIM IN THAT PARTICULAR POSITI.ON GINA: THE VETERAN POLITICIAN MET WITH EDWARDS LAST FRIDAY. EDWARDS HAD BEEN IN HOSCEPI CARE LEADING UP TOIS H DEATH. HE TOLD HIS FRIEND THAT HE LOVED HIM. HE WAS ELECTEDO T THE LOUISIANA HOEUS OF REPRESENTATIVES IN 1972, THAT WAS THE SAME YEAR EDWARDS WAS ELECTED TO HIS FIRST OF FOUR TERMS AS GOVERNOR. EDWARDS’ LEGAC ISY MARKED BY A FEDERAL CORRUPTION CONVICTION. BUT HE SAYS HIS CARE FOR THE STATE’S POOR IS WHAT STANDS OUT MOST TO HIM AND ALSO HIS MAGNETISM. >> YOU KNOW, IN POLITICS, I MET TWO ROCK STARS IN MY LIFE. HIM AND BILL CLINTON. THEY’D WALK IN A ROOM AND PEOEPL WANTED TO TOUCH THEM AND FEE
Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards laid to rest
Updated: 1:17 PM CDT Jul 18, 2021
Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards will be laid to rest Sunday. Edwards lied in state for a public viewing Saturday at the state Capitol building. A processional to the old state Capitol will begin at noon Sunday followed by a private funeral service. Obituary: Louisiana’s 50th governor, Edwin Washington Edwards, was born on Aug. 7, 1927, and passed from this world on July 12, 2021. He was one month shy of his 94th birthday. Gov. Edwin Edwards was born in a two-room farmhouse in the small community of Johnson seven miles outside Marksville,