Editing Edwin Edwards (section)

==Edwards' record of longevity==
Edwards has the seventh longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,784 days.<ref name="Ostermeier">{{cite web |url=http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/smartpolitics/2013/04/the_top_50_longest_serving_gov.php |title=The Top 50 Longest-Serving Governors of All Time |work=Smart Politics |first=Eric |last=Ostermeier |date=April 10, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141130053528/http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/smartpolitics/2013/04/the_top_50_longest_serving_gov.php |archive-date=November 30, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Few governors have served four four-year terms. Edwards followed [[George Wallace]] of [[Alabama]], [[Jim Hunt]] of [[North Carolina]], [[Bill Janklow]] of [[South Dakota]], [[Terry Branstad]] of [[Iowa]], [[Lewis Cass]] of [[Michigan]], and [[Jim Rhodes]] of [[Ohio]] as 16-year governors. However, Branstad was elected to a fifth nonconsecutive term as governor of Iowa in 2010, placing him second to [[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]] of New York (21 years) as the longest-serving governor in U.S. history, and won a sixth term as governor in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/2014/11/04/iowa-governor-terry-branstad-reelected-historic-win/18490693/ |title=Terry Branstad re-elected to historic sixth term |publisher=desmoinesregister.com |access-date=2014-11-06 }}</ref> In December 2015 Branstad surpassed New York's George Clinton as the longest-tenured governor in American history, with 8,169 days in office.<ref>{{cite news|title=Terry Branstad Is Now The Longest-Serving Governor In American History|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/terry-branstad-governor_566ed17de4b0fccee16f1919|agency=[[Associated Press]]|newspaper=[[The Huffington Post]] (archived)|date=December 14, 2015 |access-date=December 15, 2015|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102182810/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/terry-branstad-governor_566ed17de4b0fccee16f1919|archive-date=January 2, 2016}}</ref>

Veteran journalist [[Iris Kelso]] once described Edwards as clearly "the most interesting" of the six governors that she had covered while working for three newspapers and [[WDSU]], the [[NBC]] television affiliate in New Orleans. Kelso declared Edwards more colorful than [[Earl Long]], whom she covered for less than a year in the office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://beta.wpcf.org/oralhistory/kelsoint.html|title=Iris Turner Kelso: Introduction|publisher=beta.wpcf.org|access-date=October 13, 2013}}</ref>