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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>

Laborde was born to Dr. Emeric M. LaBorde (1901–1969), a Marksville [[dentist]], and the former Minnie L. Neck (1899–1994). As students at Marksville High School, Laborde in 1943 defeated Edwin Edwards for senior class president.<ref name=adtt>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070318/COMMUNITIES/703160358|author=Philip Timothy|title=Ex-governor Edwin Edwards tops list of colorful parish politicians|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=March 18, 2007|accessdate=December 19, 2009; no longer on-line}}</ref> In his first year in the House as an Edwards floor leader in 1972, Laborde balked at Edwards' call for a $1 billion tax increase. "And, oh man, did I catch hell. When I got back home, Edwin had put the word out, and everyone was calling me. Let me tell you, it was mighty uncomfortable. I couldn't wait for him to call a special session, so I could get back there and get that tax passed," Laborde said in a 2007 interview with ''The Alexandria Daily Town Talk.''<ref name=adtt/>​