Campaigns and Elections
Everett Doerge then ran for the Louisiana House, winning by only seventy-one votes over the Republican incumbent Eugene S. Eason of Springhill in northern Webster Parish.
Doerge was a big reelection winner in 1995, when he defeated two Republican women. He died near the end of his second term. Jean, widowed at the age of sixty-one, ran in the special election to succeed him and was an easy winner. She polled 3,048 votes (67 percent) to defeat the Democrat-turned-Republican Mack Garrett, who obtained 1,481 ballots (33 percent). She was subsequently elected without opposition to full terms in both 1999 and 2003. Doerge is the third woman to succeed her husband in the Webster Parish state House seat. Lizzie P. Thompson and Mary Smith Gleason were both named to the seat by Governor Earl Kemp Long in 1951 and 1959, respectively, when their husbands, C.W. Thompson and E.D. Gleason, died in office. Unlike Doerge, Thompson and Gleason did not seek to hold the seat for a term of their own.
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