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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Elaine Lucille Schwartzenburg Edwards
|office=[[United States Senator]] from [[Louisiana]] (interim)
|term_start=August 1, 1972
|term_end=November 13, 1972
|preceded= [[Allen J. Ellender]]
|succeeded= [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]]
|office2=First Lady of Louisiana
|term_start2=May 9, 1972
|term_end2=March 10, 1980
|predecessor2=Marjorie Funderburk McKeithen
|successor2=Dolores Brisbi Treen
|term_start3=March 12, 1984
|term_end3=March 14, 1988
|predecessor3=Dolores Treen
|successor3=Patti Crocker Roemer
|birth_date=March 8, 1929
|birth_place=Marksville, Avoyelles Parish<br>Louisiana
|death_date=May 14, 2018 (aged 89)
|death_place =Denham Springs<br>
Livingston Parish
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|spouse =[[Edwin Edwards]] (married 1949-1989, divorced)
|children=Anna, Victoria, Stephen, and David Edwards
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
}}
'''Elaine Lucille Schwartzenburg Edwards''' (March 8, 1929 – May 14, 2018) was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] who served in 1972 as an interim [[United States Senator]] for her native [[Louisiana]]. She was appointed to the vacancy created by the death of [[Allen Ellender]] by her then husband, [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]]. She was the longest serving First Lady of Louisiana for twelve non-consecutive years from 1972 to 1980 and again from 1984 to 1988. In her later years, she was a small fashion businesswoman and a soap opera actress in [[New York City]].
A native of Marksville in Avoyelles Parish in south central Louisiana, Mrs. Edwards was a daughter of Errol Leo Schwartzenburg (1909-1999) and the former Myrl Dupuy (1907-2001).<ref>
{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83021563|title=Errol Leo Schwartzenburg|date=January 6, 2012|work=FindAGrave|accessdate=May 15, 2018</ref>
She had two brothers, Frank Charles Schwartzenberg (1928-2013), who relocated to Marshalltown, [[Iowa]], and a younger sibling, Ralph Schwatzenberg (born 1936).<ref>{{cite web|url=
She wed Edwin Edwards in 1949 but found too late that she disliked her husband's commitment to "the fishbowl of politics": "All I wanted to do was get married and have babies and keep house," she said in 1984. The Edwardses divorced in 1989; he remarried twice, but she remained single thereafter.
Edwin Edwards named his wife to the Senate on August 1, 1972. She served only until the November [[general election]], which was handily won in a multi-candidate field by the Democra former state Senator [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], who coincidentally had been her husband's 1971 intra-party gubernatorial opponent. Johnston held the seat until his retirement on January 3, 1997.
During the 1976 presidential election, Mrs. Edwards surprised observers by endorsing [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee, [[Gerald Ford]], for a full term of his own.<ref>{{cite book|title=Public papers of the Presidents of the United States, Gerald R. Ford|author=Gerald R. Ford|year=1977 |publisher=Government Printing Office|pages=2324–25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BRCTaYzoDlcC&pg=PA2325&dq=elaine+gerald+ford+louisiana&hl=en&ei=yQ1rTrKJLozPiAKQ1pzWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> She by-passed her fellow Democrat, [[Jimmy Carter]] of [[Georgia]], while her husband first endorsed [[California]]'s leftist Governor [[Jerry Brown]], but later backed Carter when Brown failed to obtain the nomination. During her last term as First Lady and thereafter, Mrs. Edwards owned a small business which made custom-made dresses. In the 1990s, she moved to New York City in the 1990s to find occasional work as a soap opera actress.
Edwin and Elaine Edwards had four children together, Anna, Victoria, Stephen, and David. She died at the age of eighty-nine at a daughter's home in Denham Springs near [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_afea9256-579a-11e8-a8f7-bf13ceaabca2.html|title=Former Louisiana first lady Elaine Edwards dies: Edwin Edwards: 'She was agreat asset'"|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Tyler Bridges|date=May 14, 2018|accessdate=May 15, 2018}}</ref>
==References==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Elaine}}
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:New York City]]
[[Category:Actresses]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Roman Catholics]]
|name=Elaine Lucille Schwartzenburg Edwards
|office=[[United States Senator]] from [[Louisiana]] (interim)
|term_start=August 1, 1972
|term_end=November 13, 1972
|preceded= [[Allen J. Ellender]]
|succeeded= [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]]
|office2=First Lady of Louisiana
|term_start2=May 9, 1972
|term_end2=March 10, 1980
|predecessor2=Marjorie Funderburk McKeithen
|successor2=Dolores Brisbi Treen
|term_start3=March 12, 1984
|term_end3=March 14, 1988
|predecessor3=Dolores Treen
|successor3=Patti Crocker Roemer
|birth_date=March 8, 1929
|birth_place=Marksville, Avoyelles Parish<br>Louisiana
|death_date=May 14, 2018 (aged 89)
|death_place =Denham Springs<br>
Livingston Parish
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|spouse =[[Edwin Edwards]] (married 1949-1989, divorced)
|children=Anna, Victoria, Stephen, and David Edwards
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
}}
'''Elaine Lucille Schwartzenburg Edwards''' (March 8, 1929 – May 14, 2018) was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] who served in 1972 as an interim [[United States Senator]] for her native [[Louisiana]]. She was appointed to the vacancy created by the death of [[Allen Ellender]] by her then husband, [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]]. She was the longest serving First Lady of Louisiana for twelve non-consecutive years from 1972 to 1980 and again from 1984 to 1988. In her later years, she was a small fashion businesswoman and a soap opera actress in [[New York City]].
A native of Marksville in Avoyelles Parish in south central Louisiana, Mrs. Edwards was a daughter of Errol Leo Schwartzenburg (1909-1999) and the former Myrl Dupuy (1907-2001).<ref>
{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83021563|title=Errol Leo Schwartzenburg|date=January 6, 2012|work=FindAGrave|accessdate=May 15, 2018</ref>
She had two brothers, Frank Charles Schwartzenberg (1928-2013), who relocated to Marshalltown, [[Iowa]], and a younger sibling, Ralph Schwatzenberg (born 1936).<ref>{{cite web|url=
She wed Edwin Edwards in 1949 but found too late that she disliked her husband's commitment to "the fishbowl of politics": "All I wanted to do was get married and have babies and keep house," she said in 1984. The Edwardses divorced in 1989; he remarried twice, but she remained single thereafter.
Edwin Edwards named his wife to the Senate on August 1, 1972. She served only until the November [[general election]], which was handily won in a multi-candidate field by the Democra former state Senator [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], who coincidentally had been her husband's 1971 intra-party gubernatorial opponent. Johnston held the seat until his retirement on January 3, 1997.
During the 1976 presidential election, Mrs. Edwards surprised observers by endorsing [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee, [[Gerald Ford]], for a full term of his own.<ref>{{cite book|title=Public papers of the Presidents of the United States, Gerald R. Ford|author=Gerald R. Ford|year=1977 |publisher=Government Printing Office|pages=2324–25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BRCTaYzoDlcC&pg=PA2325&dq=elaine+gerald+ford+louisiana&hl=en&ei=yQ1rTrKJLozPiAKQ1pzWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> She by-passed her fellow Democrat, [[Jimmy Carter]] of [[Georgia]], while her husband first endorsed [[California]]'s leftist Governor [[Jerry Brown]], but later backed Carter when Brown failed to obtain the nomination. During her last term as First Lady and thereafter, Mrs. Edwards owned a small business which made custom-made dresses. In the 1990s, she moved to New York City in the 1990s to find occasional work as a soap opera actress.
Edwin and Elaine Edwards had four children together, Anna, Victoria, Stephen, and David. She died at the age of eighty-nine at a daughter's home in Denham Springs near [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_afea9256-579a-11e8-a8f7-bf13ceaabca2.html|title=Former Louisiana first lady Elaine Edwards dies: Edwin Edwards: 'She was agreat asset'"|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Tyler Bridges|date=May 14, 2018|accessdate=May 15, 2018}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Elaine}}
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:New York City]]
[[Category:Actresses]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Roman Catholics]]