| | 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 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, an [[Independent]], was his father's successor on the state Public Service Commission, having served from 1981 to 1996. |