Infamously, the lifelong Democrat said once said that the only way he could lose a race against a particularly lackluster Republican was if he were “caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.”Ī native of Louisiana’s Acadiana region who swore his 1972 oath of office in French and English, Edwards enjoyed renewed popularity after emerging from prison in 2011 at age 83.
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I love Louisiana and I always will,” Edwards said in some of his last words, according to Honeycutt's statement.Įarlier in the week, the former governor also said, “I’ve made no bones that I have considered myself on borrowed time for 20 years and we each know that all this fun has to end at some point.” For him, that time was shortly after daybreak this morning, the statement said.Įdwards, the "Cajun King,” was known for delivering a steady supply of memorable one-liners as well as for his deft political instincts. I tried to help as many people as I could and I hope I did that, and I hope, if I did, that they will help others, too. “I have lived a good life, had better breaks than most, had some bad breaks, too, but that’s all part of it. 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.
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He was 93.Įdwards died of respiratory problems with family and friends by his bedside, family spokesman Leo Honeycutt said. 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.