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Gaudin won a 1967 [[special election]] created by the resignation of Democratic lawmaker Luther F. Cole, who became a [[judge]]. He defeated Democrat Richard E. Cheek, 9,856 votes (50.3 percent) to 9,730 (49.7 percent) in a [[special election]] for the one-year unexpired term. In his first year in the legislature, Gaudin served with three other Republicans, [[Morley Hudson]] and Taylor W. O'Hearn (1907-1997), both of [[Shreveport]] and [[Roderick Miller]] of [[Lafayette]], all of whom are deceased. Gaudin was defeated for a four-year term in 1968, with Richard Cheek claiming victory after defeat the previous year. O'Hearn was also defeated; Hudson did not seek reelection, and Miller lost in a bid for the Louisiana State Senate. Gaudin rebounded in 1972 to win the first of five consecutive terms. From 1970 to 1972, there was only one Republican in the 105-member Louisiana House, the New Orleans attorney James Sutterfield, who won a special election to fill the vacancy created by the election of Nat G. Kiefer to the state Senate.
Gaudin won a 1967 [[special election]] created by the resignation of Democratic lawmaker Luther F. Cole, who became a [[judge]]. He defeated Democrat Richard E. Cheek, 9,856 votes (50.3 percent) to 9,730 (49.7 percent) in a [[special election]] for the one-year unexpired term. In his first year in the legislature, Gaudin served with three other Republicans, [[Morley Hudson]] and Taylor W. O'Hearn (1907-1997), both of [[Shreveport]] and [[Roderick Miller]] of [[Lafayette]], all of whom are deceased. Gaudin was defeated for a four-year term in 1968, with Richard Cheek claiming victory after defeat the previous year. O'Hearn was also defeated; Hudson did not seek reelection, and Miller lost in a bid for the Louisiana State Senate. Gaudin rebounded in 1972 to win the first of five consecutive terms. From 1970 to 1972, there was only one Republican in the 105-member Louisiana House, the New Orleans attorney [[James Sutterfield]], who won a special election to fill the vacancy created by the election of Nat G. Kiefer to the state Senate.
In 1972, Gaudin benefited from the presence of Republican [[Governor|gubernatorial]] candidate [[David C. Treen]], a Baton Rouge native then residing in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. Gaudin unseated the Democrat Lillian W. Walker (1923-2016), 6,949 (51 percent) to 6,645 (49 percent). Thereafter, Gaudin won comparatively easy victories to hold his seat. When Gaudin was reelected in 1975 in the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary in Louisiana. He had only four incoming Republican colleagues, and one of those, Abel John "A. J." McNamara (1936-2014) of Jefferson Parish, had been elected as a Democrat but switched affiliation in 1977.
In 1972, Gaudin benefited from the presence of Republican [[Governor|gubernatorial]] candidate [[David C. Treen]], a Baton Rouge native then residing in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. Gaudin unseated the Democrat Lillian W. Walker (1923-2016), 6,949 (51 percent) to 6,645 (49 percent). Thereafter, Gaudin won comparatively easy victories to hold his seat. When Gaudin was reelected in 1975 in the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary in Louisiana. He had only four incoming Republican colleagues, and one of those, Abel John "A. J." McNamara (1936-2014) of Jefferson Parish, had been elected as a Democrat but switched affiliation in 1977.