Edwin Washington Edwards (August 7, 1927 – July 12, 2021) [1] [2] [3] was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 7th congressional district from 1965 to 1972 and as the 50th governor of Louisiana …

2021年7月12日 · Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards has died. A family spokesman says the high-living four-term governor who served Louisiana through boom times and financial woes died Monday morning of respiratory problems.

2021年7月12日 · Edwin W. Edwards, the only four-term governor in Louisiana’s history, a swashbuckling rogue who charmed voters with his escapades and survived a score of grand jury investigations and two...

2021年7月12日 · Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, a Democrat who served four terms as governor and nearly 10 years in federal prison for extortion, conspiracy and racketeering, has died at age 93.

2021年7月12日 · 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.

2021年7月12日 · NEW ORLEANS — Edwin Washington Edwards, the high-living, quick-witted four-term governor who reshaped Louisiana's oil revenues and dominated the state's politics for decades, a run all but...

2021年7月17日 · Louisiana is saying goodbye to Edwin Edwards. Mourners steadily filed by the former governor's flag-draped open casket on Saturday at a public visitation event in the main hall of the state Capitol where the powerful and flamboyant politician served 16 years.

2021年7月12日 · NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — 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.

2021年7月12日 · NEW ORLEANS — Edwin Washington Edwards, the high-living, quick-witted four-term governor who reshaped Louisiana’s oil revenues and dominated the state’s politics for decades, a run all but...

Edwin Washington Edwards was elected to his first term by an unprecedented combination of "Cajun" and black votes. His administration was marked by several accomplishments. Edwards supported a constitutional convention to replace the unwieldy Constitution of 1921.