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Edgar Mouton

American politician (1929–2016)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5337249 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edgar Gonzague "Sonny" Mouton Jr. (September 22, 1929 – March 24, 2016) was an American 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.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Edgar Mouton” as american politician (1929–2016). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929, 2016, 1964, 1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1929-09-22. The account is most persuasive where Edgar, Mouton and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american politician (1929–2016). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5337249. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1929, 2016, 1964 and 1966.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Locating cited institutions
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  2. Expand the search: follow Edgar Mouton primary sources, Edgar Mouton archive and Edgar research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Edgar Mouton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.