Edwin Edwards, the longest-serving governor in Louisiana history, has passed away at the age of 93.
The former governor died peacefully Monday morning at his home in Gonzales, La. with family and friends by his bedside. Louisiana’s only four-term governor died of respiratory problems that had plagued him in recent years, doctors said. Edwards was less than a month short of his 94th birthday.
On Monday, July 5, Edwards had placed himself in hospice care following a trip the day before by ambulance to nearby Our Lady of the Lake St. Elizabeth Hospital with complaints of pain in his right lung. Physicians took X-rays and a CAT scan of both lungs but said the tests revealed nothing.
Current Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards issued the following statement about the former governor’s passing.
https://www.ksla.com/2021/07/12/former-la-governor-edwin-edwards-has-died-93/