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==Mayoral service==
==Mayoral service==
As a councilman, Baden often clashed with Mayor [[Floyd Smith]], a fellow Democrat and a member of the [[Huey Long|Long]] political dynasty who did not seek a second term but instead ran successfully in 1970 for councilman at-large, a position that he soon vacated in order to run, unsuccessfully, for state senator against the incumbent [[Cecil R. Blair]]. Smith was elected mayor in 1966, when he upset fellow Democrat [[Elmo Futrell|P. Elmo Futrell, Jr.]], a Pineville [[real estate]] appraiser.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85144493/|title=Municipal; Election Returns Cited|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=April 9, 1962|page=5|accessdate=July 16, 2015}}</ref>
As a councilman, Baden often clashed with Mayor [[Floyd Smith]], a fellow Democrat and a member of the [[Huey Long|Long]] political dynasty who did not seek a second term but instead ran successfully in 1970 for councilman at-large, a position that he soon vacated in order to run, unsuccessfully, for state senator against the incumbent [[Cecil R. Blair]]. Smith was elected mayor in 1966, when he upset fellow Democrat [[Elmo Futrell|P. Elmo Futrell, Jr.]], a Pineville [[real estate]] appraiser.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85144493/|title=Municipal; Election Returns Cited|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=April 9, 1962|page=5|accessdate=December 11, 2019}}</ref>
A [[Southern Baptist]], Baden was particularly known for his opposition to the sale of [[alcohol]]ic beverages in historically prohibitionist Pineville, the home of Baptist-affiliated [[Louisiana College]]. He once closed Buhlow Lake in Pineville to boat races because of alcohol consumption on the premises.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk,'' May 25, 1979.</ref>
A [[Southern Baptist]], Baden was particularly known for his opposition to the sale of [[alcohol]]ic beverages in historically prohibitionist Pineville, the home of Baptist-affiliated [[Louisiana College]]. He once closed Buhlow Lake in Pineville to boat races because of alcohol consumption on the premises.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk,'' May 25, 1979.</ref>