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==Thirty years in Congress==
==Thirty years in Congress==
[[File:Otto Passman.jpg|thumb|right|140px]]
[[File:Otto Passman.jpg|thumb|right|140px]]
Passman was first elected to the 80th United States Congress in 1946, when he unseated two-term incumbent Charles Edgar McKenzie (1896-1956) in the Democratic primary. In the nationally Republican year, numerous returning veterans, including [[John F. Kennedy]] in [[Massachusetts]] and [[Richard M. Nixon]] in [[California]], were chosen for congressional duty. Passman held his 5th congressional district seat with minimal or no opposition for thirty years.
Passman was first elected to the 80th United States Congress in 1946, when he unseated two-term incumbent Charles Edgar McKenzie (1896–1956) in the Democratic primary. In the nationally Republican year, numerous returning veterans, including [[John F. Kennedy]] in [[Massachusetts]] and [[Richard M. Nixon]] in [[California]], were chosen for congressional duty. Passman held his 5th congressional district seat with minimal or no opposition for thirty years.
In 1956, District Attorney [[Ragan Madden]] of Lincoln and Union parishes filed candidacy papers to oppose Passman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2367392/|title=Madden to run for Congress|publisher=''The Ruston Daily Leader''|date=May 17, 1956|page=9|accessdate=January 8, 2020}}</ref> Not once did a Republican candidate oppose Passman in his fifteen terms in office; the [[Republican Party|GOP]] at the time was a mostly moribund institution in Louisiana.<ref>''Louisiana History,'' p. 335.</ref>
In 1956, District Attorney [[Ragan Madden]] of Lincoln and Union parishes filed candidacy papers to oppose Passman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2367392/|title=Madden to run for Congress|publisher=''The Ruston Daily Leader''|date=May 17, 1956|page=9|accessdate=January 8, 2020}}</ref> Not once did a Republican candidate oppose Passman in his fifteen terms in office; the [[Republican Party|GOP]] at the time was a mostly moribund institution in Louisiana.<ref>''Louisiana History,'' p. 335.</ref>