Edwin Edwards likely to lie in state at Capitol 3 hours 11 minutes 8 seconds ago Monday, July 12 2021 Jul 12, 2021 July 12, 2021 6:43 PM July 12, 2021 in News Source: WBRZ Share: BATON ROUGE - Flags are at half staff outside the Capitol where Edwin Edwards once governed for many years. Inside, likely where he will lie until he is in his final resting place. "He certainly is going to remembered as somebody who was absolutely one-of-a-kind in Louisiana politics," Commissioner Jay Dardenne said. In 1994, Dardenne was elected to the legislature under Edwards. "Well, I was never a legislative friend of Edwards. When I entered the legislature, I was a Republican bomb-thrower, and he was the governor. I did not like the kind of things that were going on," he said.