1927-2021
Louisiana’s 50th governor, Edwin Washington Edwards, was born on August 7, 1927, and passed from this world on July 12, 2021. He was one month shy of his 94th birthday.
Gov. Edwin Edwards was born in a two-room farm house in the small community of Johnson seven miles outside Marksville, Louisiana, in Avoyelles Parish. His father Clarence was a farmer and his mother Agnes was a midwife credited with…