Defeat in 1975
After a total of eighteen years in both legislative chambers, Blair was unseated n the 1975 jungle primary by then State Representative and later Alexandria Mayor Edward Gordon "Ned" Randolph, Jr. Thereafter, he failed in comeback attempts for his former Senate seat in 1979, 1983, and 1987. While Randolph unseated Blair, in the same election, then Democrat John W. "Jock" Scott won Randolph's House seat. Randolph and Scott purported to be "new" politicians not molded to failures of the past. It was the same kind of environment which a year later enabled former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter to win the presidency. In fact, Randolph and Scott comanaged Carter's Rapides Parish campaign in 1976.
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