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BREAKING: Ex-Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards dies at 93

BREAKING: Ex-Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards dies at 93

By KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT NEW ORLEANS — 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. Edwards died of respiratory problems with family and friends by his bedside, family spokesman Leo Honeycutt said. He had suffered bouts of ill health in recent years and entered hospice care this month at his home in Gonzales, near the Louisiana capital. A native of Louisiana’s Acadiana region who swore his 1972 oath of office in French and English,…
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