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Schwegmann, however, did run nearly five thousand votes ahead of another conservative primary candidate, three-term Lieutenant Governor Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock (1915-1987) of Franklin in St. Mary Parish, who floundered badly in his [[Governor|gubernatorial]] campaign. Edwards and Johnston went into the second primary, which Edwards won by a close vote. Edwards then defeated Schwegmann's Jefferson Parish neighbor, Republican [[David C. Treen]] in the [[general election]] held on February 1, 1972. Parey Branton, meanwhile, barely registered in the lieutenant governor's race: he polled 53,295 votes, left state politics, but later served eighteen years as the mayor of Shongaloo.
Schwegmann, however, did run nearly five thousand votes ahead of another conservative primary candidate, three-term Lieutenant Governor Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock (1915-1987) of Franklin in St. Mary Parish, who floundered badly in his [[Governor|gubernatorial]] campaign. Edwards and Johnston went into the second primary, which Edwards won by a close vote. Edwards then defeated Schwegmann's Jefferson Parish neighbor, Republican [[David C. Treen]] in the [[general election]] held on February 1, 1972. Parey Branton, meanwhile, barely registered in the lieutenant governor's race: he polled 53,295 votes, left state politics, but later served eighteen years as the mayor of Shongaloo.
==Two other political Schwegmanns==
==Two other political Schwegmanns=
Two members of his family have demonstrated the same interest in government service: Melinda B. Schwegmann, a Democrat, later [[Moderate Republican]], his daughter-in-law, was the first woman in Louisiana to serve as lieutenant governor (1992-1996) in the last Edwards gubernatorial term, and John F. Schwegmann was his father's successor on the state Public Service Commission, having served from 1981 to 1996.
Two members of his family have demonstrated the same interest in government service: Melinda B. Schwegmann, a Democrat, later [[Moderate Republican]], his daughter-in-law, was the first woman in Louisiana to serve as lieutenant governor (1992-1996) in the last Edwards gubernatorial term, and John F. Schwegmann was his father's successor on the state Public Service Commission, having served from 1981 to 1996.