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Guste prevailed in the race with 763,276 votes (74.1 percent) to Stagg's 270,038 (25.9 percent). Stagg won only his native Caddo Parish with 54 percent of the ballots cast, and he finished with at least 43 percent in six other north Louisiana parishes. Two other statewide Republican nominees also won in Caddo Parish, Treen for governor and [[Robert Frye]], a native of Webster Parish who was then a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, who challenged the Democrat [[Louis J. Michot]], a businessman from [[Lafayette]] for the position of state education superintendent.<ref>''Shreveport Journal,'' February 2, 1972.</ref> Guste went on to serve twenty years as attorney general.​

Guste prevailed in the race with 763,276 votes (74.1 percent) to Stagg's 270,038 (25.9 percent). Stagg won only his native Caddo Parish with 54 percent of the ballots cast, and he finished with at least 43 percent in six other north Louisiana parishes. Two other statewide Republican nominees also won in Caddo Parish, Treen for governor and [[Robert Frye]], a native of Webster Parish who was then a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, who challenged the Democrat [[Louis J. Michot]], a businessman from [[Lafayette]] for the position of state education superintendent.<ref>''Shreveport Journal,'' February 2, 1972.</ref> Guste went on to serve twenty years as attorney general.​

After this campaign, Stagg vacated the position of Republican national committeeman in favor of David Treen. Stagg also announced that he was considering running for the U.S. Senate in 1972 for the seat held by Democrat [[Allen J. Ellender]], who died during the primary campaign. Stagg said that he would need "money, support, and possibilities of success, rather than just running as an exercise."<ref>"Treen Named State GOP Committeeman," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' March 6, 1972, p. 1.</ref> Stagg never ran for the Senate; the Republican nominee was [[Ben  C. Toledano]], a lawyer and author, who had carried the party's banner in 1970 in a race for [[mayor]] of [[New Orleans]]. Victory in the Senate race, however, went to Stagg's former rival for the state Senate, J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. Stagg did win one election, a [[nonpartisan]] contest in the summer of 1972 for delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1973. He served as chairman of both the Temporary Rules and the Executive Department committees.​

After this campaign, Stagg vacated the position of Republican national committeeman in favor of David Treen. Stagg also announced that he was considering running for the U.S. Senate in 1972 for the seat held by Democrat [[Allen J. Ellender]], who died during the primary campaign. Stagg said that he would need "money, support, and possibilities of success, rather than just running as an exercise."<ref>"Treen Named State GOP Committeeman," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' March 6, 1972, p. 1.</ref> Stagg never ran for the Senate; the Republican nominee was [[Ben  C. Toledano]], a lawyer and author, who had carried the party's banner in 1970 in a race for [[mayor]] of [[New Orleans]]. Victory in the Senate race, however, went to Stagg's former rival for the state Senate, J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. Stagg did win one election, a nonpartisan contest in the summer of 1972 for delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1973. He served as chairman of both the Temporary Rules and the Executive Department committees.​

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