Louis Joseph Lambert, Jr. (born December 21, 1940), is a Louisiana attorney and businessman who is best remembered for having been the first Democrat since Reconstruction to have lost a contested gubernatorial general election to a Republican candidate. Only two other Democrats, state Senator (and former congressman) Cleo Fields and Congressman William J. Jefferson, both blacks, have similarly lost gubernatorial races to a Republican. Wikipedia
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