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'''Note''':<br>
'''Note''':<br>
*Having earlier been declared one of his state's most successful [[mayor]]s by the Louisiana Municipal Association, Mouton ran for lieutenant governor in 1963 on the intra-party [[Democratic Party |Democratic]] ticket with [[John J. McKeithen]]. When McKeithen was elected [[governor as Mouton lost his race to Clarence C. "Taddy Aycock (1915-1987), McKeithen named his ticket-mate as the state's Collector of Revenue.
*Having earlier been declared one of his state's most successful [[mayor]]s by the Louisiana Municipal Association, Mouton ran for lieutenant governor in 1963 on the intra-party [[Democratic Party |Democratic]] ticket with [[John J. McKeithen]]. When McKeithen was elected [[governor as Mouton lost his race to Clarence C. "Taddy Aycock (1915-1987), McKeithen named his ticket-mate as the state's Collector of Revenue.}}
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'''Ashton Joseph Mouton, Sr.''' (October 16, 1916 – January 31, 1988), was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man and [[politician]] who became, at thirty-one, the youngest [[mayor]] in the history of his native [[Lafayette]], [[Louisiana]]. A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Mouton was elected mayor in 1948, served two four-year terms, and left office in 1956. In 1963, Mouton was an unsuccessful contender for lieutenant governor on an intra-party ticket with the winning [[Governor|gubernatorial]] candidate, [[John J. McKeithen]] of [[rural]] Columbia in Caldwell Parish in the northeastern portion of the state.
'''Ashton Joseph Mouton, Sr.''' (October 16, 1916 – January 31, 1988), was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man and [[politician]] who became, at thirty-one, the youngest [[mayor]] in the history of his native [[Lafayette]], [[Louisiana]]. A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Mouton was elected mayor in 1948, served two four-year terms, and left office in 1956. In 1963, Mouton was an unsuccessful contender for lieutenant governor on an intra-party ticket with the winning [[Governor|gubernatorial]] candidate, [[John J. McKeithen]] of [[rural]] Columbia in Caldwell Parish in the northeastern portion of the state.