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Senate Years of Service: 1972-1972 Party: Democrat
EDWARDS, Elaine Schwartzenburg, (wife of Edwin Washington Edwards),
a Senator from Louisiana; born Elaine Lucille Schwartzenburg in
Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, La., March 8, 1929; attended public schools;
appointed on August 1, 1972, to the United States Senate by her husband,
Governor Edwin W. Edwards, as a Democrat to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Allen J. Ellender, and served from August 1, 1972, until her
resignation November 13, 1972; is a resident of Baton Rouge, La.
BibliographyElaine S. Edwards, in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 2006.
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