Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Edwin Edwards |
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Birthdate | August 07, 1927 |
Birth Place | Marksville, LA |
Age (in 2024) | 97 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Politician |
Edwin Edwards is best known as Politician who has born on August 07, 1927 in Marksville, LA. Currently, Edwin Edwards is 97 years, 3 months and 27 days old. Edwin Edwards will celebrate 98th birthday on Thursday, 7th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Edwin Edwards upcoming birthday.
50th Governor of Louisiana for four terms who was in a Federal Prison from 2002 to 2011 following his conviction on racketeering charges.
He served in the U.S. Navy Air Corps near the end of World War II, and preached for the Marksville Church of the Nazarene before getting his law degree from Louisiana State University Law Center and practicing law in Crowley.
He has served twice as many elected terms as any other Louisiana chief executive and he has the sixth longest serving gubernatorial tenure in US history.
In October of 2013 The Governor's Wife, a reality television series starring him and his third wife Trina, who is fifty years his junior, premiered on A&E. Trina is his third wife. He has five children: Anna, Victoria, Stephen, David, and Eli Wallace.
President Barack Obama refused to pardon him while he was serving time in a federal prison.
Edwin Edwards is 97 years old today.
Edwin Edwards was born on August 07, 1927 in Marksville, LA.
Edwin Edwards zodiac sign is Leo.
Edwin Edwards was best known as Politician.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Edwin Edwards's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1978 | U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently. |
1981 | The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. |
1985 | Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. |
1987 | Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union. |
1989 | U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. |
1990 | First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War. |
1993 | Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, is sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. |
1995 | The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake. |
1997 | Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
1997 | Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people. |
1998 | Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people. |
1999 | The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan. |
2007 | At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record. |
2008 | The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia. |
2020 | Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board. |
1988 | The birth of Beanie Wells, American football player |
1989 | The birth of DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Josh Franceschi, English singer-songwriter |
1991 | The birth of Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (d. 2016) |
1991 | The birth of Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer |
1991 | The birth of Mike Trout, American baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Adam Yates, English cyclist |
1992 | The birth of Simon Yates, English cyclist |
1992 | The birth of E. J. Tackett, American bowler |
1993 | The birth of Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper |
1993 | The birth of Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter |
1997 | The birth of Matty Cash, Polish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Kyler Murray, American football player |
1998 | The birth of Vladimir Barbu, Italian diver |
1998 | The birth of MarÃa Bazo, Peruvian windsurfer |
2014 | The death of VÃctor Fayad, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1955) |
2014 | The death of Perry Moss, American football player and coach (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Henry Stone, American record producer (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (b. 1914) |
2015 | The death of Louise Suggs, American golfer, co-founded LPGA (b. 1923) |
2016 | The death of Bryan Clauson, American racing driver (b. 1989) |
2017 | The death of Don Baylor, American baseball player (b. 1949) |
2017 | The death of David Maslanka, American composer (b. 1943) |
2018 | The death of M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and prominent leader of Tamils (b. 1924) |
2018 | The death of Stan Mikita, Slovak hockey player (b. 1940) |
2019 | The death of David Berman, American musician, singer, poet and cartoonist (b. 1967) |
2020 | The death of Lê Khả Phiêu, Vietnamese politician (b. 1931) |
2021 | The death of Markie Post, American actress (b. 1950) |
2022 | The death of David McCullough, American historian and author (b. 1933) |
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