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|birth_place=Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana

|birth_place=Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana

|death_date=July 12, 2021 (aged 93)

|death_date=July 12, 2021 (aged 93)

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|death_place=Gonzales, Ascension Parish

|resting_place=

|resting_place=

|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]

|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]

Edwards was released from prison in 2011. He soon married his third wife, the former Trina Grimes Scott, who had been his prison pen pal and at the age of thirty-two in 2012 is young enough to be his granddaughter. The couple had a son thereafter and were featured on a short-lived A&E reality show, ''The Governor's Wife'', in 2013.

Edwards was released from prison in 2011. He soon married his third wife, the former Trina Grimes Scott, who had been his prison pen pal and at the age of thirty-two in 2012 is young enough to be his granddaughter. The couple had a son thereafter and were featured on a short-lived A&E reality show, ''The Governor's Wife'', in 2013.

Edwards went under [[hospice]] care in July 2021 and died a few days later at the age of ninety-three.

Edwards went under [[hospice]] care in July 2021 and died a few days later at the age of ninety-three at his home in Gonzales in Ascension Parish.

==See also==

==See also==