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==Political life==
==Political life==
Reggie served as acting judge for the ailing Crowley City Judge Denis T. Canan, who was also Reggie's law partner. When Canan died in 1950, Reggie was appointed by Governor [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] to Canan's seat, a fulfillment of Canan's dying wish. Appointed at the age of twenty-four, Reggie was reputed to be America's youngest judge at that time.<ref>''www.lapoliticalmuseum.com'' [http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php?viewID=41 Edmund M. Reggie] Online version.</ref> Reggie held the post for twenty-five years until 1976.<ref>[http://www.reggiefamilyarchives.com/1728-The-Rise-of-Louisiana-Boy-to-Governor-s-Counsel.html|title=The Rise of Louisiana Boy to Governor's Counsel|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''[|date= September 16, 1979.</ref>
Reggie served as acting judge for the ailing Crowley City Judge Denis T. Canan, who was also Reggie's law partner. When Canan died in 1950, Reggie was appointed by Governor [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] to Canan's seat, a fulfillment of Canan's dying wish. Appointed at the age of twenty-four, Reggie was reputed to be America's youngest judge at that time.<ref>''www.lapoliticalmuseum.com'' [http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php?viewID=41 Edmund M. Reggie] Online version.</ref> Reggie held the post for twenty-five years until 1976.<ref>"The Rise of Louisiana Boy to Governor's Counsel," ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' September 16, 1979.</ref>
At the 1956 [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[Chicago]], with the Louisiana and Massachusetts state delegations sitting across the aisle from each other, Reggie brokered the delegation's support for U.S. Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] for [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] (on a ticket with [[Adlai Stevenson]], rather than the vice-presidential nominee chosen, Senator [[Estes Kefauver]] of [[Tennessee]], the preference of Louisiana Governor Earl Long.<ref>{{cite web|author=Jim Bradshaw|title=Acadiana Diary: Louisiana delegation helped bring JFK to notice|url=http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200803020250/COLUMNISTS01/803020331|publisher=''The Lafayette Daily Advertiser''|accessdate=October 28, 2008}}</ref>
At the 1956 [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[Chicago]], with the Louisiana and Massachusetts state delegations sitting across the aisle from each other, Reggie brokered the delegation's support for U.S. Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] for [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] (on a ticket with [[Adlai Stevenson]], rather than the vice-presidential nominee chosen, Senator [[Estes Kefauver]] of [[Tennessee]], the preference of Louisiana Governor Earl Long.<ref>{{cite web|author=Jim Bradshaw|title=Acadiana Diary: Louisiana delegation helped bring JFK to notice|url=http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200803020250/COLUMNISTS01/803020331|publisher=''The Lafayette Daily Advertiser''|accessdate=October 28, 2008}}</ref>