Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton Jr.

American politician

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1929

Place of Birth: Lafayette, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 24-Mar-2016

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Edgar Gonzague "Sonny" Mouton Jr.
(September 22, 1929 – March 24, 2016) was an attorney from Lafayette, Louisiana, who was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1964 to 1966 and the Louisiana State Senate from 1966 to 1980.
He ran unsuccessfully for governor in the 1979 nonpartisan blanket primary. Thereafter, Mouton (pronounced MOO TAHN) became the executive counsel (1980–1983) to newly elected Governor David C.
Treen, the first Republican to hold the office since Reconstruction.
In 1985, he returned briefly as a special consultant to Governor Edwin Washington Edwards, who had won a third term in the 1983 primary by unseating Treen. A Lafayette native, Mouton attended Cathedral High School and graduated as class valedictorian in 1947.
He received his bachelor's degree from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1951.
In 1953, he obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the Tulane University Law School.