BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Former Governor Edwin Edwards is to lie in Memorial Hall in the State Capitol on Saturday, July 17. Public viewing will be available during the hours of 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Edwards was the last in a long line of colorful populist Democrats who once dominated Louisiana politics. He served four terms as governor, and... Edwin Edwards, The Larger-Than-Life Former Louisiana ...

50 years after he first won a congressional seat, Edwin Edwards is asking voters to send him back to Washington. The four-time former governor is a Louisiana legend, but – as Sue Lincoln reports – it ...

Former Gov. Edwin Edwards, the charismatic rogue who served four terms in the Capitol as well as a stint in federal prison for corruption, can still pack a room. More than 500 people, among them ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — (WGNO) – Okay, so they’ve both governed our state, they’re both Democrats, and one of them will be in the Governor’s Mansion for four more years. But a word to the wise for national ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana's only four-term governor, Edwin Edwards, is turning 90-years-old on Aug. 7. To say he is a colorful character is an understatement. Edwards, who was always dogged by ...

In 1971, U.S. Rep. Edwin Edwards led the first Democratic primary for governor of Louisiana, topping a 17-candidate field. In the second primary, Edwards defeated state Sen. J. Bennett Johnston by a ...