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LaBorde and Allen Ellender

Though he required his reporters to be objective regarding the subjects they covered, LaBorde had a particularly soft spot for another south Louisiana politician, his fellow "Cajun" Roman Catholic Senator Ellender, from Houma in Terrebonne Parish, with whom he liked to swap "fish stories." It was even said that with their dark-rimmed glasses, LaBorde and Ellender bore a physical resemblance though Ellender was more than twenty years LaBorde's senior. Ellender served in the U.S. Senate for thirty-six years. His sudden death in the 1972 reelection campaign hit LaBorde hard.