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==Women sheriffs in Louisiana==
==Women sheriffs in Louisiana==
For a time after his death, Mrs. Lydia Nugent by appointment succeeded her husband as sheriff of Grant Parish.<ref name=fnpobit/> Similarly, four years later in 1940, after the death of Sheriff [[Eugene Campbell]] of Concordia Parish, his widow, Darlene Fuchs Campbell, served as sheriff until her own death eighteen months later on July 25, 1941.<ref>"Mrs. Campbell Died Yesterday: Splendid Lady of Vidalia Called by Death, Buried Yesterday", ''The Natchez ([[Mississippi]] Democrat,'' July 26, 1941.</ref> No woman was elected sheriff in Louisiana until 1999, when Beth Oakley Lundy, a Democrat, won the position in Calcasieu Parish, which includes [[Lake Charles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reocities.com/vbenson_2000/sheriffs.htm|title=First Woman Sheriffs in the United States of America|publisher=reocities.com|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref> with 51.5 percent of the vote cast in the nonpartisan blanket primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10231999/10231999_10.html|title=Election returns: Calcasieu Parish, October 23, 1999|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>
For a time after his death, Mrs. Lydia Nugent by appointment succeeded her husband as sheriff of Grant Parish.<ref name=fnpobit/> Similarly, four years later in 1940, after the death of Sheriff [[Eugene Campbell]] of Concordia Parish, his widow, Darlene Fuchs Campbell, served as sheriff until her own death eighteen months later on July 25, 1941.<ref>"Mrs. Campbell Died Yesterday: Splendid Lady of Vidalia Called by Death, Buried Yesterday," ''The Natchez ([[Mississippi]]) Democrat,'' July 26, 1941.</ref> No woman was elected sheriff in Louisiana until 1999, when Beth Oakley Lundy, a Democrat, won the position in Calcasieu Parish, which includes [[Lake Charles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reocities.com/vbenson_2000/sheriffs.htm|title=First Woman Sheriffs in the United States of America|publisher=reocities.com|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref> with 51.5 percent of the vote cast in the nonpartisan blanket primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10231999/10231999_10.html|title=Election returns: Calcasieu Parish, October 23, 1999|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>
==References==
==References==