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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]].with 51.5 percent of the vote cast in the nonpartisan blanket primary.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Primary Election Returns (Calcasieu Parish), October 23, 1999.</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, Doretta "Rhetta" 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 Democrat Beth Oakley Lundy won the position in Calcasieu Parish, which includes [[Lake Charles]].with 51.5 percent of the vote cast in the nonpartisan blanket primary.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Primary Election Returns (Calcasieu Parish), October 23, 1999.</ref>

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