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The Marksville mayor from 1958 to 1970, Laborde thereafter served five terms from 1972 to 1992 in the Louisiana House of Representatives.<ref name=listing>{{cite web|url=
http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2020 (Avoyelles Parish|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=November 3, 2019}}</ref><ref>The state legislative listing indicates that Laborde began his legislative service in 1968, but P. J. Laborde served from 1968 to 1972.</ref> He was a House [[Governor|gubernatorial]] floor leader, Speaker Pro Tempore from 1982 to 1984,<ref name=listing/> and in his last full term the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url= http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/13/us/louisiana-governor-tells-of-quandary-over-bill-to-ban-abortion.html?pagewanted=apublishera|publisher=''[[The New York TimesllTimes]]''|author=Lisa Belkin|title=Louisiana Governor Tells of Quandry Quandary over Bill to Ban Abortion|date=July 13, 1990|accessdate=November 3, 2019}}</ref>
After his election without opposition to a sixth term in the 1991 nonpartisan blanket primary, Laborde resigned to become commissioner of administration in the fourth and final nonconsecutive term of his boyhood friend, [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-11846336.html|title= Gov.-elect Edwards names Raymond Laborde Louisiana's Commissioner of Administration|accessdate=December 18, 2009; no longer on-line; website no longer operational.}}</ref>
