Posted: Posted July 18, 2021 / 12:53 PM CDT / Has been updated: July 18, 2021 / 12:53 PM CDT

Baton Rouge, Louisiana (AP) — Played as an honorary guard, a bagpipe descends the towering State Capitol Sunday stairs in Louisiana and is a flag-covered casket bearing the body of former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards. Carried. Transport to his funeral hall.

The former governor of the fourth term died last week at his home in Gonzales at the age of 93 after receiving hospice care following a respiratory attack. His body was placed in honor of the Houses of Parliament on Saturday.

The Southern University marching band is about a mile from the 34-story Parliament building built in the 1930s to the former State Capitol, a 19th-century building where Edwards’ private funeral takes place. It was part of a procession carrying the bodies in. It was planned.

Edwards was a dominant figure in Louisiana’s politics for most of the second half of the 20th century, before he was governor of the State Senate and Parliament.

Edwards is renowned for his keen wit, deadpan one-liner, and political skills, and became governor for the second term in the 1970s. One was in the 80’s and the other was in the early 90’s. He led the promotion of a new state constitution, took blacks to the state government, and praised the 1970s review of oil taxes that led to the state’s prosperity. He came to power when the Louisiana Superdome was completed, retained the NFL saints in New Orleans, saved the financially distressed 1984 World Fair, brought a casino to New Orleans, and ultimately contributed to the NBA team. Did.

However, he was also frequently exposed to accusations of misconduct. He was acquitted of corruption in his third term. He was re-elected in 1991 after being largely canceled due to political termination following the failure of the re-election in 1987, after securing a final vote with the former Ku Klux Klan leader.

He was tried and convicted in 2000 for tampering with the Riverboat Casino licensing process. He convicted the false testimony and claimed that he did nothing wrong. He served eight years in prison and married his third marriage in 2011 at the age of 83. The bride, Trina Grimes Scott, was 32 at the time. They had a son. Edwards had four grown-up children since his first marriage.