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In the general election, Long overwhelmed the Republican Charles Sidney Gerth (1882-1964), a businessman from New Orleans, who had run unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary in 1948 against the state's senior senator, [[Allen J. Ellender]] of Houma in Terrebonne Parish. Long and Ellender were senatorial colleagues from 1948 until Ellender's death in 1972.

In the general election, Long overwhelmed the Republican Charles Sidney Gerth (1882-1964), a businessman from New Orleans, who had run unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary in 1948 against the state's senior senator, [[Allen J. Ellender]] of Houma in Terrebonne Parish. Long and Ellender were senatorial colleagues from 1948 until Ellender's death in 1972.

After the failure of his Senate race, Lafargue joined Percy N. Browne in the Shreveport law firm of Browne and Lafargue.<ref name=bio/> Lafargue was a member of Sigma Nu  fraternity, the Masonic lodge, the Shriners,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html|title=Malcolm Emmett Lafargue|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=February 11, 2015}}</ref> and the [[Episcopa]] Church]].<ref name=bio/>

After the failure of his Senate race, Lafargue joined Percy N. Browne in the Shreveport law firm of Browne and Lafargue.<ref name=bio/> Lafargue was a member of Sigma Nu  fraternity, the Masonic lodge, the Shriners,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html|title=Malcolm Emmett Lafargue|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=February 11, 2015}}</ref> and the [[Episcopal]] Church]<ref name=bio/>

==Death at 54==

==Death at 54==