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Bagwell sought a federal judgeship but was not selected by the Eisenhower administration.<ref name=hgbagwell/> Along with incoming state party chairman [[LeRoy Smallenberger]] of Shreveport, Bagwell served as an alternate delegate to the 1960 Republican National Convention, which also met in Chicago and nominated the ticket of Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of [[Massachusetts]]. [[George Reese]], a New Orleans lawyer who challenged Democratic U.S. Senator [[Allen Ellender]] that year for his seat, was also a delegate to the Chicago convention. So was the Shreveport Republican and later a Nixon-appointed U.S. District Judge, Thomas Eaton "Tom" Stagg, Jr.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/LA.html|title=Louisiana delegation to the 1960 Republican National Convention|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref>
Bagwell sought a federal judgeship but was not selected by the Eisenhower administration.<ref name=hgbagwell/> Along with incoming state party chairman [[LeRoy Smallenberger]] of Shreveport, Bagwell served as an alternate delegate to the 1960 Republican National Convention, which also met in Chicago and nominated the ticket of Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of [[Massachusetts]]. [[George Reese]], a New Orleans lawyer who challenged Democratic U.S. Senator [[Allen Ellender]] that year for his seat, was also a delegate to the Chicago convention. So was the Shreveport Republican and later a Nixon-appointed U.S. District Judge, Thomas Eaton "Tom" Stagg, Jr.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/LA.html|title=Louisiana delegation to the 1960 Republican National Convention|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref>
In the 1964 presidential election, [[Barry Goldwater]] was the first Republican to carry the [[Deep South]], although he lost nearly everywhere else. Bagwell called for an "overhaul" of the state party leadership, arguing that more moderate policies were necessary for broader party success. The more [[conservative]] party leaders, including Floyd O. Crawford, the defeated Republican candidate for U.S. representative from Louisiana's 6th congressional district; and Morton Blackwell, later active as a Republican party official in [[Virginia]], criticized Bagwell for his comments: They "seem to come from another world and another era." Crawford said that "if Bagwell wishes to be a [[liberal]], then he should become a Democrat."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1585755/louisiana_gop_factions_clash/|title="Louisiana GOP Factions Clash"|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=November 13, 1964|accessdate=January 16, 2015}}</ref>
In the 1964 presidential election, [[Barry Goldwater]] was the first Republican to carry the [[Deep South]], although he lost nearly everywhere else. Bagwell called for an "overhaul" of the state party leadership, arguing that more moderate policies were necessary for broader party success. The more [[conservative]] party leaders, including Floyd O. Crawford, the defeated Republican candidate for U.S. representative from Louisiana's 6th congressional district; and Morton Blackwell, later active as a Republican party official in [[Virginia]], criticized Bagwell for his comments: They "seem to come from another world and another era." Crawford said that "if Bagwell wishes to be a [[liberal]], then he should become a Democrat."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1585755/louisiana_gop_factions_clash/|title="Louisiana GOP Factions Clash"|publisher=''Lake Charles American-Press''|date=November 13, 1964|accessdate=January 16, 2015}}</ref>