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Events with high posterior probability

P. J. Mills	In 1972, newly elected Democratic Governor Edwin Washington Edwards named Mills as the first director of the Louisiana Superport.
Frank Kell	In 1922, Kell was among the fundraisers for George Peddy, a native of Tenaha in Shelby County in East Texas, a former short-term member of the Texas House of Representatives, and an assistant district attorney from Houston who became a combination Republican / Independent candidate for the U. S. Senate.
Dave Treen	Freeman worked for the return of Edwin Edwards to the governorship, and Freeman himself easily won re-election in 1983 by defeating Edwards' first lieutenant governor, fellow Democrat Jimmy Fitzmorris, while Treen went down to a crushing defeat.
Danny Patrick (Arkansas politician)	The previous incumbent for Carroll County, Teague, who formerly called himself a'' Faubus Republican'', was sixty-two years old in the 1966 race against the 25-year-old Patrick.
Clifford Allen	In 1975 when Richard Fulton was elected mayor to succeed Briley and resigned as Congressman, Allen entered the crowded Democratic primary field in the ensuing special election, and won, beating the incumbent district attorney Thomas Shriver, legislator Mike Murphy, and attorney (later federal Sixth Circuit judge) Gilbert Merritt, largely because of having far more name recognition than any other candidate and because of his populist attack on high rates being charged by local electric and gas utilities.
Harold Montgomery	The governor supported 31-year-old Springhill attorney, John Willard'' Jack'' Montgomery, Sr. (born June 2, 1936), in the senatorial primary against Harold Montgomery.
Frank Spooner	Later in 1972, Treen was elected to the U. S. House, and four years thereafter, Spooner sought to join Treen in Congress when he opposed Jerry Huckaby for the seat Otto Passman was compelled to vacate.
Peter O'Donnell (Texas)	In the fall of 1960, O'Donnell was the Dallas County Republican chairman and compiled a record of considerable success.
Shelby M. Jackson	In his last reelection on April 17, 1960, he overwhelmed the first Republican ever to seek the Louisiana superintendency, Donald Emerich, a professor at Centenary College in Shreveport.
John Breaux	In the 2003 Louisiana gubernatorial campaign, after flirting briefly with the possibility of running himself, Breaux campaigned hard for the successful Democratic candidate, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette.
Robert L. King	In 1991, he unseated Thomas Frey to become Monroe County Executive.
Billy Chandler	In the general election held on November 19, 2011, new Republican Billy Chandler was unseated by Terry R. Brown, a retired employee in the real estate division of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and an Independent from Colfax.
Jack Eckerd	In 1970, Eckerd entered the Republican gubernatorial primary to challenge incumbent Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr..
Raymond Laborde	Though considered a strong Edwards ally, he was Speaker Pro Tempore in the Treen administration and later Ways and Means chairman under Governor Buddy Roemer, who defeated Edwards in the 1987 primary.
Noam Bramson	On April 25, 2013, Bramson defeated Westchester County Board of Legislators Chairman Ken Jenkins of Yonkers and Legislator Bill Ryan of White Plains to become the Democratic Party's nominee for the county's top office.
William L. Spicer	At the time Spicer faced opposition in the central committee from Henry M. Britt of Hot Springs, the party's 1960 gubernatorial nominee, an attorney, and later a judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court.
Jane H. Smith	Though armed with Governor Jindal's strong backing Smith lost her race to fellow Republican Barrow Peacock, a businessman from Shreveport who had run third in a bid for the same seat in 2007.
Jeffrey D. Sadow	In 2009, he endorsed the election of former U. S. Representative Clyde C. Holloway to the Louisiana Public Service Commission in a special election held on April 4.
Tom Gallagher	In 1988, Gallagher ran in a special election for the office of Treasurer, Insurance Commissioner and Fire Marshal of Florida to fill the last two years of the term of Democrat Bill Gunter, who had resigned to run for the U. S. Senate.
Buddy Roemer	Buddy Roemer was one of a large number of Democratic candidates to challenge three-term incumbent governor Edwin Edwards, whose flamboyant personality and reputation for questionable ethical practices had polarized voters.
Max T. Malone	Term-limited in the District 37 seat, which includes portions of Caddo and Bossier parishes in northwestern Louisiana, Malone could not seek a fourth term in the October 20, 2007, jungle primary.
J. D. Grey	In 1964, Grey became involved in the Louisiana gubernatorial election on behalf of an erstwhile rival of Long's, the former Mayor DeLesseps Story Morrison, who had resigned as United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States under U. S. President John F. Kennedy, to make his third unsuccessful bid for the state's highest office.
Ruby Laffoon	As his term neared expiration, Laffoon removed Ben Johnson from his post as highway commissioner, replacing him with Tom Rhea.
Lorris M. Wimberly	Governor Robert F. Kennon replaced Wimberly as Speaker in 1952 with his choice, conservative state Representative (and later lieutenant governor) Clarence C.'' Taddy'' Aycock of Franklin in St. Mary Parish in south Louisiana.
Dave Treen	Treen's House seat returned in the spring of 1980 to the Democratic Party, as State Representative Billy Tauzin of Thibodaux defeated two principal opponents, his fellow Democrat, State Senator Anthony Guarisco, Jr., of Morgan City, and the Democrat-turned-Republican Jim Donelon, who had just lost a Democratic race for lieutenant governor.
William C. Cramer	In the fall of 1988, about the time of the election of his former House colleague George H. W. Bush to the presidency, Cramer returned to St. Petersburg, where he established another law practice and became involved in real estate with his friend and former aide Jack Inscoe.
Paul N. Cyr	Cyr tried again to take the governorship in January 1932, while the gubernatorial campaign between Oscar K. Allen and Dudley J. LeBlanc was underway.
Charlton Lyons	Waggonner, a native and resident of Plain Dealing in Bossier Parish, held the seat until he retired in 1979.
Rick L. Farrar	In 1991, Farrar unseated long-term Democratic incumbent Carl Newton Gunter, Jr., of Deville in the eastern portion of the parish, 7,729 votes (57 percent) to Gunter's 5,929 (43 percent), exactly 1,800 votes.
Frank Kell	Kell's namesake grandson, Frank Kell Cahoon, left Wichita Falls as a young man to enter the oil and natural gas business in Midland, Texas, and was in 1965 the only Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, during a portion of his four-year stint in the chamber.
Mark Darr	On November 2, 2010, in the closest constitutional race, Darr defeated state senator (and former Arkansas House Speaker) Shane Broadway.
Harold Montgomery	In a 1975 interview in Alexandria, Harold Montgomery said that he thought that Tom Colten, the Republican mayor of Minden, had done a good job in office, but he never understood Colten's reported favoritism toward Jack Montgomery, a loyal Democrat, in that Harold Montgomery had sometimes supported Republican candidates, including Barry Goldwater.
Sherman W. Tribbitt	Like Terry, he was narrowly defeated in the 1968 Republican landslide by Eugene D. Bookhammer, a State Senator from Lewes.
Leander Perez	In 1956, Perez did not again support James McLemore in the latter's second campaign for governor but instead endorsed Fred Preaus of Farmerville in north Louisiana, the choice of outgoing Governor Robert F. Kennon.
Russell B. Long	Long had correctly predicted in March 1985 that Governor Edwin Edwards would be acquitted by a Louisiana jury and that the ensuing trial would not disrupt state government.
Herman "Wimpy" Jones	Jones waged an unsuccessful comeback attempt against Montgomery in the primary held on December 7, 1963.
Robin Armstrong	He was elected at the state convention held in San Antonio on June 3, 2006, to succeed the term-limited David Barton, an historian from Aledo in Parker County west of Fort Worth.
Leo Berman	In January 2011, Berman announced a challenge to Speaker Joe Straus of San Antonio for the presiding officer's position but subsequently withdrew from the race.
Michael G. Strain	Early in 2007, Strain entered the race for Commissioner of Agriculture & Forestry of Louisiana in opposition to the 28-year Democratic incumbent Robert Fulton'' Bob'' Odom, Jr., who in recent years had been engulfed in multiple personal corruption allegations.
Gillis William Long	Years later in 2005, then Mayor Ned Randolph, Long's previous political opponent, asked Williamson to resign without explanation after two years of service as the director of Alexandria Planning & Economic Development Department.
Louis Lambert	Lambert, while serving on the PSC, lost the 1979 gubernatorial race to Republican U. S. Representative David C. Treen, then of Jefferson Parish in the Third Congressional District.
F. O. "Potch" Didier	The newspaper publisher Jim R. Levy (born 1934), formerly of the Bunkie Record in Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, proclaims Didier'' the best sheriff Avoyelles Parish ever had.''
Russ Mobley	He supported the right to life and endorsed the anti- abortion legislator Stan Lee, the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Attorney General of Kentucky in the November 6, 2007, general election.
Joseph Berrios	Thomas G. Lyons, a veteran 45th Ward committeeman who had held the unpaid party position of chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party for nearly 17 years, was seriously ill and announced his retirement in January 2007, and died on January 12 at age 75.
Ashton B. Collier	In 1967, he was pitted in a reconfigured district with Representative Sam Wilbanks of neighboring LaSalle Parish.
Bill Clements	In addition, the Republican down-ballot candidates were all defeated in 1982, including George Strake, Jr., a Houston businessman who had been Clements' former secretary of state.
Rebecca McClanahan	Retired Marine Corps Major Duane Crawford, a well-known Republican and popular former teacher/coach from Unionville, Missouri, claimed that McClanahan did not have authorization to recycle his image and a quote he gave when he supported McClanahan in her 2008 campaign for the Missouri House 2nd District seat.
Clyde C. Holloway	In 1990, Holloway defeated two State Senators in the primary, Cleo Fields, an African American from Baton Rouge, and the previously mentioned Joe McPherson, Jr., of Holloway's own Rapides Parish.
Art Sour	When a single-member district plan took effect with the general election held on February 1, 1972, Sour, who was committed to the gubernatorial candidacy of fellow Republican David C. Treen of Jefferson Parish, upset Democrat Frank Fulco, a protégé of the Longs and a former member of the Share the Wealth Club, to win the first of his five terms in the legislature.
Lynn Dean	Douglas Dean ran unsuccessfully for District E seat on the parish council in the same 1995 election in which his father unseated Senator Nunez.
Kay Hagan	She defeated investment banker Jim Neal of Chapel Hill, podiatrist Howard Staley of Chatham County, Lexington truck driver Duskin Lassiter, and Lumberton attorney Marcus Williams in the May 2008 Democratic primary.
Tate Reeves	Though Reeves is still a young man, he entered the 2003 GOP primary election as a 29-year-old political newcomer, and faced former transportation commissioner Wayne Burkes of Brandon and state representative Andrew Ketchings of Natchez.
Jay Dardenne	In December 2007, Dardenne named a former state Senate colleague, Tom Schedler of St. Tammany Parish, a Republican, as his chief deputy.
Charles D. Lancaster, Jr.	Lancaster was first elected when he was twenty-eight to the state House in the 1972 general election on the Republican ticket headed by gubernatorial nominee David C. Treen, then of Jefferson Parish.
Mary Landrieu	Landrieu was elected in 1996 to the U. S. Senate seat previously held by John Bennett Johnston, Jr. of Shreveport after winning a close and controversial runoff election.
Jim Morris (Louisiana politician)	In 2007, Morris became only the second member of his party to hold his legislative seat, having won a special election to succeed the Democrat Roy McArthur `` Hoppy'' Hopkins of Oil City, who died in office.
Albert Bel Fay	In 1969, Fay lost his national committeeman's position about the time that the attorney William Steger was elected state party chairman to succeed Peter O'Donnell of Dallas.
Henry Bonilla	Bonilla did not win in heavily Democratic Webb County in 1992 or in any election thereafter though the small contingent of Republicans there, led by former Laredo City Council member Joe A. Guerra, worked hard for his candidacy.
Loy F. Weaver	In 1986, he supported the Republican U. S. Senate candidate, then U. S. Representative Henson Moore of Baton Rouge.
Gerald Hege	One of Hege's sons (Gerald Hege, Jr.) ran for the office of Sheriff of Davidson County, but was defeated in the May 2006 Republican primary.
Donald Fowler	Fowler's son, Donnie Fowler, ran unsuccessfully for DNC chair in 2005.
Dan Richey	Richey was replaced in 2004, when the Democrat Kathleen Babineaux Blanco became governor.
Jack Montgomery (Louisiana politician)	Jack Montgomery entered the race for the state Senate in 1967 to challenge the two-term incumbent Harold Montgomery, who had opposed the administration of popular Governor John McKeithen.
Bill Janklow	The Senate committee was considering Mr. Janklow's nomination as a director of the Legal Services Corporation...'' Janklow returned to politics in 1994, when he defeated incumbent Walter Dale Miller in the Republican gubernatorial primary.
Allison Kolb	Kolb, at thirty-two, first sought the auditor's position in the 1948 primary, running on the gubernatorial ticket of a fellow Democrat, Robert F. Kennon of Minden.
Ellen Bryan Moore	Moore ran in the first primary in 1952 on the unsuccessful Hale Boggs gubernatorial ticket but switched to the Robert Kennon slate in the runoff election.
William C. Feazel	In 1960, Feazel was a presidential elector for the successful Kennedy - Johnson ticket, along with Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion, Mayor Leon Gary of Houma, and Municipal Judge Edmund Reggie of Crowley in Acadia Parish.
Bruce M. Bolin	In the 1983 campaign, U. S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., U. S. Representative s Jerry Huckaby and Buddy Roemer, then Louisiana House Speaker John Hainkel, and then state Representative Robert Adley headlined a testimonial dinner and fundraiser for Bolin held at the Minden Civic Center and attended by some one thousand supporters.
Bolivar E. Kemp	In early December 1933, Governor Oscar K. Allen declared that a special election would be held eight days from the date of his announcement, and he named Kemp's widow, the former Esther Edwards Conner, known as'' Lallie'' Kemp, as the'' unopposed'' Democratic nominee.
Louise B. Johnson	On October 27, 1979, Mrs. Johnson ran unsuccessfully in a bid to regain her previous state House seat.
Rick L. Farrar	In 1999, Farrar staged a comeback when Wiggins ran, not for reelection, but to the Louisiana State Senate seat vacated by B. G. Dyess, who retired after a single term.
Earl Long	In the 1944 contest, Earl Long lost to a man whose previous political position had been no higher than a school board presidency.
Bill Clements	On January 16, 1979, Clements succeeded Democrat Dolph Briscoe as governor of Texas.
Malcolm Wallop	In 1976, in another nationally Democratic year, Wallop unseated three-term Democratic U. S. Senator Gale W. McGee by a margin of nearly 10 points in a rare bright spot for Republicans that year.
Alston Johnson	Johnson initially had been considered by the White House in early 1999 as a candidate for a vacancy on the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, the Baton Rouge Advocate reported on January 13, 1999.
C.W. Thompson	In 1948, Thompson was narrowly reelected to the Louisiana House when by 83 votes he defeated a furniture dealer named George Foster, 3,887 to 3,804.
Jeffrey D. Sadow	On October 21, 1995, Sadow ran for a Shreveport seat on the Caddo Parish Commission vacated by fellow conservative Lloyd E. Lenard.
Ralph Yarborough	In the nationally Democratic year of 1958, Yarborough cruised to victory in the general election over the Republican nominee, publisher Roy Whittenburg of Amarillo.
C. F. Nelson Pratt	He would be the last Republican to serve as an Essex County Commissioner until Kevin Leach in 1991.
Cat Doucet	In supporting the registration of African American voters in St. Landry Parish as early as 1952, Doucet cemented a hold on black backers that endured throughout his four later terms in office.
Roy Brun	In 1978, Brun, head of the Republican ballot security program, reported alleged vote-buying in Louisiana's 4th congressional district race between Republican James H.'' Jimmy'' Wilson of Vivian in Caddo Parish and Democrat Buddy Leach, then of Leesville in Vernon Parish.
Frank Spooner	In 2004, Spooner contributed to Alexander's unsuccessful intraparty rival, former State Representative Jock Scott of Alexandria.
Shien Biau Woo	Woo narrowly won the Democratic primary election for U. S. Senator in 1988, defeating Samuel S. Beard, an heir to a railroad fortune, and resident of Greenville, Delaware.
Sixty Rayburn	In 1993, Rayburn was among the first dozen inductees into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, along with former Governors Edwin Edwards, Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Earl Long ; former U. S. Representative Hale Boggs of New Orleans, and former New Orleans Mayor Ernest'' Dutch'' Morial.
Larry S. Bankston	Beset with legal troubles, Bankston did not seek a third term in the 1995 primary, and the seat passed to the Democrat Wilson Fields.
Ernest Angelo	Angelo's entry into municipal politics was not the result of personal motivation, but a plea from two friends and fellow businessmen, his neighbor Tom Craddick and Craddick's predecessor in the legislature, former Representative Frank Kell Cahoon, who had been the only Republican in the Texas House of Representatives in the 1965 legislative session.
Kent Courtney	In 1954, Courtney lost a Democratic race for the New Orleans City Council, when deLesseps Story'' Chep'' Morrison, Sr., was mayor.
William H. Boyce	Seeking re-election in 1924, Boyce lost to Republican Robert G. Houston, a journalist, also from Georgetown.
Kirk Humphreys	He was considered a favorite candidate of the Republican party establishment for U. S. Senator in 2004, losing to former Congressman Tom Coburn, MD in the primary.
Joe Purcell	In 1970, he was considered the leading challenger to former Governor Orval Faubus and ran second to Faubus throughout the primary race, but was edged out of a runoff berth by less than 500 votes by Charleston attorney Dale Bumpers, who went on to defeat Faubus and then the Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller in the general election.
Paul Hardy	Hardy switched parties and ran as a Republican in 1987 for lieutenant governor.
A. P. Tugwell	In 1948, Tugwell ran on several intraparty tickets, including that of Sam Houston Jones, who was defeated in his comeback gubernatorial bid by another former governor, Earl Kemp Long.
Charles E. Miller	In 1965 State Senator James A. Clark, Jr. proposed a five-person County Council and a County Executive which Miller opposed.
Winthrop Rockefeller	Maurice Britt managed the 1970 campaign, and he was replaced on the Republican ticket for lieutenant governor by Sterling R. Cockrill of Little Rock, the former Democratic House Speaker in Rockefeller's first term.
Renee Ellmers	She faced car dealer Todd Gailas and retired businessman Frank Deatrich in the May 4, 2010 Republican primary.
Chuck Robb	Senator John Warner refused to support North and instead backed third-party candidate and former Virginia Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman, whom Robb had defeated in the 1981 gubernatorial contest.
Forrest Dunn	In 1980, he ran for the Fourth Congressional District seat then held for a single term by former Representative Anthony Claude'' Buddy'' Leach, then of Leesville, the seat of Vernon Parish in western Louisiana.
Pat Brister	Brister was elected party chairman in 2000 by the 144-member Republican State Central Committee to succeed Chuck McMains, a Baton Rouge state representative, who served in 2000.
Joel Robideaux	On October 25, 2011, Governor Bobby Jindal endorsed Chuck Kleckley of Lake Charles as his choice to succeed the term-limited Jim Tucker as Speaker.
Rubel Phillips	Phillips shed his past segregationist image and ran to the middle, as had Williams' unsuccessful primary opponent, state Treasurer William Winter, who ultimately won the governorship in 1979.