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==Campaigns and elections==
==Campaigns and elections==
Everett Doerge then ran for the Louisiana House, winning by only seventy-one votes over the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[incumbent]] Eugene F. Eason of Springhill in northern Webster Parish.
Everett Doerge then ran for the Louisiana House, winning by only seventy-one votes over the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[incumbent]] [[Eugene Eason]] of Springhill in northern Webster Parish.
Doerge was a big reelection winner in 1995, when he defeated two Republican women. He died near the end of his second term. Jean, widowed at the age of sixty-one, ran in the [[special election]] to succeed him and was an easy winner. She polled 3,048 votes (67 percent) to defeat the Democrat-turned-Republican Garland Mack Garrett, an oil company owner from Springhill born in 1942,<ref>"Garrett is Senate challenger," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' September 16, 1987, p. 4A.</ref> who obtained 1,481 ballots (33 percent). She was subsequently elected without opposition to full terms in 1999 and 2003. Doerge is the third woman to succeed her husband in the Webster Parish state House seat. Lizzie P. Thompson and Mary Smith Gleason were both named to the seat by [[Governor]] [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] when their husbands, C. W. Thompson (1890-1951) and Ernest Dewey Gleason (1899-1959), died in office. Unlike Doerge, neither Thompson nor Gleason sought to hold the seat for a term of her own.
Doerge was a big reelection winner in 1995, when he defeated two Republican women. He died near the end of his second term. Jean, widowed at the age of sixty-one, ran in the [[special election]] to succeed him and was an easy winner. She polled 3,048 votes (67 percent) to defeat the Democrat-turned-Republican Garland Mack Garrett, an oil company owner from Springhill born in 1942,<ref>"Garrett is Senate challenger," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' September 16, 1987, p. 4A.</ref> who obtained 1,481 ballots (33 percent). She was subsequently elected without opposition to full terms in 1999 and 2003. Doerge is the third woman to succeed her husband in the Webster Parish state House seat. Lizzie P. Thompson and Mary Smith Gleason were both named to the seat by [[Governor]] [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] when their husbands, C. W. Thompson (1890-1951) and Ernest Dewey Gleason (1899-1959), died in office. Unlike Doerge, neither Thompson nor Gleason sought to hold the seat for a term of her own.