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In 1950, Lafargue resigned as U.S. attorney<ref name=bio/> to challenge in the Democratic [[primary]] Senator Russell Long, son of [[Huey Long|Huey Pierce Long, Jr.]], and nephew of Earl Long. Russell Long successfully sought the first of six consecutive six-year terms in office. Long had been nominated and elected in 1948 for a two-year term created by the death of Senator John Holmes Overton] of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], who had earlier defended Huey Long in the 1929 [[impeachment]] trial before the Louisiana State Senate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/overton-ovington.html|title=John H. Overton|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=February 12, 2015}}</ref> Overton had recommended Lafargue for the assistant U.S. attorney position.<ref name=bio/>

In 1950, Lafargue resigned as U.S. attorney<ref name=bio/> to challenge in the Democratic [[primary]] Senator Russell Long, son of [[Huey Long|Huey Pierce Long, Jr.]], and nephew of Earl Long. Russell Long successfully sought the first of six consecutive six-year terms in office. Long had been nominated and elected in 1948 for a two-year term created by the death of Senator John Holmes Overton] of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], who had earlier defended Huey Long in the 1929 [[impeachment]] trial before the Louisiana State Senate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/overton-ovington.html|title=John H. Overton|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=February 12, 2015}}</ref> Overton had recommended Lafargue for the assistant U.S. attorney position.<ref name=bio/>

Lafargue was succeeded as U.S. attorney on an acting basis by [[William J. Fleniken]].<ref name=mns/> The pro-Long Harvey Locke Carey was appointed as Lafargue's permanent successor. Carey served less than two years from August 1950 to January 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85984778/|title=Fleniken sworn in as U.S. Attorney|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|date=April 23, 1952|page=1|accessdate=November 3, 2020}}</ref> An [[Arkansas]] native, Carey was a former clerk of the Louisiana House of Representatives who had married into the powerful [[Harmon Caldwell Drew|Drew]] family in Minden. He had managed the 1948 campaigns in northwest Louisiana for both Earl Long and Russell Long.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.com/Who-Was-Who-in-America-a-Companion-Biographical-Reference-Work-to-Whos-Who-in-America-Volume-9/282265/81|title=Carey, Harvey Locke|publisher=Who Was Who in America, Vol. IX|date=1985|page=63|accessdate=February 20, 2015}}</ref> Fleniken, who had continued as assistant U.S. attorney under Carey, was sworn in to succeed Carey on April 23, 1952 and remained in the position until the early part of the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] administration.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/usatty.html|title=U.S. District Attorneys for Louisiana, 1923-1998 (Harvey Locke Carey should be 1950-1952.)|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=November 3, 2020}}</ref>

Lafargue was succeeded as U.S. attorney on an acting basis by [[William J. Fleniken]].<ref name=mns/> The pro-Long Harvey Locke Carey was appointed as Lafargue's permanent successor. Carey served less than two years from August 1950 to January 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85984778/|title=Fleniken sworn in as U.S. Attorney|publisher=''Monroe News Star''|date=April 23, 1952|page=1|accessdate=November 3, 2020}}</ref> An [[Arkansas]] native, Carey was a former clerk of the Louisiana House of Representatives who had married into the powerful [[Harmon Caldwell Drew|Drew]] family in Minden. He had managed the 1948 campaigns in northwest Louisiana for both Earl Long and Russell Long.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.com/Who-Was-Who-in-America-a-Companion-Biographical-Reference-Work-to-Whos-Who-in-America-Volume-9/282265/81|title=Carey, Harvey Locke|publisher=Who Was Who in America, Vol. IX|date=1985|page=63|accessdate=February 20, 2015}}</ref> Fleniken, who had continued as assistant U.S. attorney under Carey, was sworn in to succeed Carey on April 23, 1952 and remained in the position until the early part of the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] administration.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/usatty.html|title=U.S. District Attorneys for Louisiana, 1923-1998 (Harvey Locke Carey should be 1950-1952.)|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=November 3, 2020}}</ref>

In the 1948 senatorial primary, Russell Long had narrowly defeated [[Robert F. Kennon]] of Minden, an intraparty rival of the Drews. Four years later Kennon was elected governor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.la-cemeteries.com/Governors/Kennon,%20Robert%20F/Kennon,%20Robert%20Floyd.shtml|title=Louisiana Governors: Robert Floyd Kennon|publisher=la-cemeteries.com|accessdate=February 11, 2015}}</ref> Long thereafter in the [[general election]] overwhelmed [[Clem S. Clarke]], a Shreveport [[oil]]man who was the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] since implementation in 1914 of the [[Seventeenth Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]] even to run for a U. S. Senate seat in Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/reminiscences-of-clem-s-clarke-oral-history-1951/oclc/122308295|title=Reminiscences of Clem S. Clarke: Oral history|author=Historians Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill|publisher=[[Columbia University]]|location=[[New York City]]|date=1951|accessdate=February 10, 2015}}</ref>  

In the 1948 senatorial primary, Russell Long had narrowly defeated [[Robert F. Kennon]] of Minden, an intraparty rival of the Drews. Four years later Kennon was elected governor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.la-cemeteries.com/Governors/Kennon,%20Robert%20F/Kennon,%20Robert%20Floyd.shtml|title=Louisiana Governors: Robert Floyd Kennon|publisher=la-cemeteries.com|accessdate=February 11, 2015}}</ref> Long thereafter in the [[general election]] overwhelmed [[Clem S. Clarke]], a Shreveport [[oil]]man who was the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] since implementation in 1914 of the [[Seventeenth Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]] even to run for a U. S. Senate seat in Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/reminiscences-of-clem-s-clarke-oral-history-1951/oclc/122308295|title=Reminiscences of Clem S. Clarke: Oral history|author=Historians Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill|publisher=[[Columbia University]]|location=[[New York City]]|date=1951|accessdate=February 10, 2015}}</ref>