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Louisiana analysis: Former Gov. Edwin Edwards has complicated legacy


Kevin McGill
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS   That Edwin Edwards fame might have diminished a bit while he was imprisoned became clear on the day of his third wedding in July 2011 months after his release and just days shy of his 84th birthday to a 32-year-old woman.
After a private ceremony at a French Quarter hotel, the wedding party walked around the block for lunch at Galatoire s on Bourbon Street.
“Who is she?” an onlooker asked, thinking reporters and photographers were swarming because of the young woman with the cascading blonde hair and shimmery dress bride Trina Grimes Scott not the man who, 15 years earlier, had finished his fourth term as Louisiana s governor. ....

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Louisiana holds funeral service for former Governor Edwin Edwards


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Louisiana said goodbye to its only four-term governor, Edwin Edwards, over the weekend as he was eulogized Sunday at the Old State Capitol during a private funeral service.
His legacy was tarnished by corruption convictions related to the issuing of casino licenses for which he served more than eight years in federal prison.
The charismatic Cajun rogue was the state’s last populist Democratic governor in the tradition of Huey Long and Earl Long, serving consecutive terms from 1972 to 1980 and single terms from 1984 to 1988 and 1992 to 1996.
Before that he served as a state senator from Crowley and then represented Acadiana in Congress from 1965 to 1972. ....

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