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{{Infobox officeholder

|name Erle Edwards Barham​

|name Erle Edwards Barham​

|office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator for District 33 (East Carroll, Morehouse, Richland, and West Carroll parishes)​

|office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator for District 33 (East Carroll, Morehouse, Richland,<br> and West Carroll parishes)​

|term_start=1976​

|term_start=1976​

|term_end=1980​

|term_end=1980​

Amy Barham Westbrook<br>​

Amy Barham Westbrook<br>​

Robert Berry Barham​

Robert Berry Barham​

|relations=[[Robert J. Barham]] (brother)​

|relations=Robert Jocelyn Barham (brother)​

|party= [[Republican Party|Republican]]​

|party= [[Republican Party|Republican]]​

|alma_mater=Oak Ridge High School​

|alma_mater=Oak Ridge High School​

*Barham was the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] elected to the Louisiana State Senate since [[Reconstruction]].

*Barham was the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] elected to the Louisiana State Senate since [[Reconstruction]].

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'''Erle Edwards Barham'', known as '''Edwards Barham''' (July 10, 1937 &ndash; October 17, 2014,) was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man, [[farmer]], and conservationist from  Oak Ridge, a [[village]] in Morehouse Parish in northeastern [[Louisiana]]. He was the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] elected — by a 29-vote margin — to the Louisiana State Senate since the era of [[Reconstruction|Reconstruction]]. Barham represented the agricultural District 33 from 1976 to 1980. Barham was narrowly unseated in the 1979 nonpartisan blanket[[ primary]] by a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], David "Bo" Ginn of Bastrop, who held the seat until 1988.<ref>David 'Bo' Ginn announced his candidacy in 1987 for Louisiana Secretary of State but withdrew from that race, and victory went to then Democrat, later Republican convert, Walter Fox McKeithen (1946-2005).</ref>​

'''Erle Edwards Barham'', known as '''Edwards Barham''' (July 10, 1937 &ndash; October 17, 2014,) was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man, [[farmer]], and conservationist from  Oak Ridge, a [[village]] in Morehouse Parish in northeastern [[Louisiana]]. He was the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] elected — by a 29-vote margin — to the Louisiana State Senate since the era of [[Reconstruction|Reconstruction]]. Barham represented the agricultural District 33 from 1976 to 1980. Barham was narrowly unseated in the 1979 nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] by a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], David "Bo" Ginn of Bastrop, who held the seat until 1988.<ref>David 'Bo' Ginn announced his candidacy in 1987 for Louisiana Secretary of State but withdrew from that race, and victory went to then Democrat, later Republican convert, Walter Fox McKeithen (1946-2005).</ref>​

==Background==

==Background==