Taddy Aycock Clarence C . " Taddy " Aycock ( January 13 , 1915 – January 6 , 1987 ) , a conservative Democrat from Franklin in St . Mary Parish , was the only three - term lieutenant governor in 20th century Louisiana history . He served from 1960 to 1972 . Aycock failed in his only bid for governor in the 1971 Democratic primary . Few lieutenant governors in Louisiana have been elected directly to the governorship ; former Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette , is a prominent exception . Aycock was born in Franklin to Clarence A . Aycock ( 1885 – 1948 ) and the former Inez Crask . He received his law degree in 1937 from Loyola University in New Orleans and launched his law practice in Franklin . He won the Bronze Star while serving in Europe during World War II . In 1945 , Aycock married the former Elaine Champagne ( 1918 – 2011 ) . They had six children . Speaker of the Louisiana House , 1952 . Aycock was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1952 and , though a freshman member , was tapped by incoming Governor Robert F . Kennon as his choice for Speaker . In Louisiana , House Speakers routinely have the recommendation of the governor regardless of the separation of powers between executive and legislative branches . He was reelected to the legislature in 1956 but was not recommended for retention as Speaker by Kennon ' s successor , Earl Kemp Long . Long instead called Lorris M . Wimberly back as Speaker and then sent Wimberly to head the Department of Public Works in the summer of 1956 . Wimberly ' s abrupt departure led to the accession of Speaker Robert Joseph " Bob " Angelle of St . Martin Parish . Aycock was associated with the anti - Long faction within the Louisiana Democratic Party . While Aycock served as lieutenant governor and Speaker of the House , only John Hainkel , a lawyer from New Orleans , and John Alario , a businessman from Westwego , were elected by both the Senate and the House to their respective highest positions of Senate President and House Speaker . Election as lieutenant governor , 1960 & 1964 . Aycock first won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 1959 – 1960 . At that time , under the Louisiana Constitution of 1921 , the lieutenant governor presided over the state Senate . In the 1974 Constitution , senators chose a " Senate President " to preside over the body , with a ceremonial President Pro Tem in the second position . These Senate presidents also have the recommendation of the governor . Aycock and then Mayor W . George Bowdon , Jr . , of Alexandria led the primary field in December 1959 and went into a January 1960 runoff . Losing candidates included sitting Governor Earl Long , who was actually waging his third campaign ( the last two unsuccessful ) for lieutenant governor , and Mayor William J . " Bill " White ( December 25 , 1910 – December 12 , 1990 ) of Gretna in Jefferson Parish , a ticket - mate of State Auditor William J . " Bill " Dodd , then of Baton Rouge . Aycock was Jimmie Davis ' choice for lieutenant governor ; his intraparty rival , George Bowdon , was endorsed by the losing runoff candidate , New Orleans Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison , Sr . In the general election held on April 19 , 1960 , Aycock defeated Republican Clark C . Boardman ( October 14 , 1887 - July 1965 ) , a retired engineer from Monroe in Ouachita Parish . A native of Wisconsin , Boardman received his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering in 1909 from the University of Wisconsin - Madison . Boardman and his wife , the former Ethel V . Martin ( 1889 – 1989 ) , had one son , Grant Clinton Boardman ( 1925 – 2010 ) , a Louisiana State University graduate and an engineer with Sid W . Richardson Carbon and Gas in Fort Worth , Texas , for much of his career . Aycock polled 392 , 421 votes ( 83 . 2 percent ) to Boardman ' s 68 , 186 ( 14 . 4 percent ) . ( Vaughn L . Phelps ( born 1920 ) , also of Monroe , the nominee of the Louisiana States ' Rights Party , received 11 , 299 votes , the remaining 2 . 4 percent . ) Boardman , at seventy - two , did not wage an active campaign . He was the first Republican in modern times even to seek the lieutenant governor ' s position . Not until 1987 , eleven months after Aycock ' s death , did a Republican , Paul Hardy of St . Martinville in St . Martin Parish , win the position , which has been otherwise reserved for Louisiana Democrats . In December 1963 – January 1964 , Aycock ran as an " independent " Democrat , meaning that he did not align himself to any gubernatorial candidate . He might have favored Robert Kennon , who was seeking a comeback as governor and who had made him Speaker , but he preferred to make his race alone . He was thrust into a runoff with Chep Morrison ' s next choice for the position , attorney Claude Berwick Duval of Houma in Terrebonne Parish . Omitted in the primary was McKeithen ' s ticket - mate , former Mayor Ashton J . Mouton of Lafayette . Duval , a distinguished " old - school " orator , was as conservative as Aycock , but he , like his gubernatorial ticket mate Morrison , fared poorly in central and northern Louisiana . In 1968 , Duval entered the state Senate for the first of three terms with his former rival , Lieutenant Governor Aycock , as the presiding officer . Duval and Aycock also had something else in common : they came from adjoining south Louisiana parishes , and both were in the anti - Long tradition of Louisiana politics . Endorsing Goldwater for president . In the fall of 1964 , Aycock endorsed Republican presidential nominee Barry M . Goldwater of Arizona , rather than his fellow Democrat , President Lyndon B . Johnson . Governor John J . McKeithen , many of whose backers also voted for Aycock for the second position , remained neutral in the presidential race . The states ' two powerful Democratic senators , Allen J . Ellender of Houma and Russell B . Long of Baton Rouge , however , endorsed the Johnson - Humphrey elector slate . Goldwater won Louisiana ' s ten electoral votes : he was only the second Republican to have done so in modern times , the other having been Dwight D . Eisenhower in 1956 . Several other Democrats joined Aycock in supporting Goldwater : Secretary of State Wade O . Martin , Jr . , former Governors Sam Houston Jones of Lake Charles and Robert Kennon of Minden , Caddo Parish Sheriff J . Howell Flournoy , Monroe Mayor W . L . " Jack " Howard , and Plaquemines Parish political " boss " Leander H . Perez . The Republicans held a rally at Tulane University in New Orleans to honor Goldwater and former Democrat - turned - Republican Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina as well as the defecting Louisiana Democrats , with then congressional candidate David C . Treen acting as master of ceremonies . Goldwater and Thurmond also made a stop thereafter in Shrevport . McKeithen blocks Aycock ' s aspirations , 1967 . Aycock had planned to seek the governorship in the 1967 Democratic primary , but he ran into a major roadblock . In 1966 , McKeithen proposed a change to the state ' s term limits law , and Amendment 1 was adopted into the state Constitution on November 8 , 1966 . The amendment allows a Louisiana governor to be elected to two consecutive four - year terms , but not a third - term unless he first sits out a term . When Aycock gauged how powerful McKeithen had become , he backed away from a gubernatorial challenge and ran instead for reelection as lieutenant governor , again without tying himself to any gubernatorial candidate . He had no serious opposition for his third term . Running for governor , 1971 . Aycock presumably could have had a fourth term as lieutenant governor for the asking , but he entered the 1971 Democratic primary for governor . The field was so crowded that the lieutenant governor never made it into the top tier of candidates , headed by then U . S . Representative Edwin Washington Edwards of Crowley , State Senator J . Bennett Johnston , Jr . , of Shreveport , then former U . S . Representative Gillis William Long of Alexandria , and former Governor Jimmie Davis , then of Baton Rouge . Aycock , the most conservative candidate in the field , finished in sixth place with 88 , 465 votes . Davis and Aycock , who had been the winning intraparty ticket in 1960 , were opposing each other in 1971 . As it turned out , neither was a serious factor in the race . In 1971 , the runoff featured the newer , more moderate candidates , Edwards and Johnston . Edwards narrowly won the second primary and then went on to defeat Republican David Treen , then of Jefferson Parish , in the general election held on February 1 , 1972 . Eleven candidates , ten Democratic and one Republican , entered the race to succeed Aycock , including two bankers , outgoing State Representative P . J . Mills of Shreveport and State Senator Jamar Adcock of Monroe , and two candidates from Webster Parish , state Representative Parey P . Branton and businessman Edward Kennon , later a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission . The eventual Democratic nominee , Jimmy Fitzmorris , a former member of the New Orleans City Council , easily defeated the Republican choice , Treen ' s running - mate , former state Representative Morley A . Hudson of Shreveport . Aycock ' s legacy . Aycock never sought another office but returned to Franklin to practice law . He pushed for the name change of Southwestern Louisiana Institute to the University of Southwestern Louisiana ( since University of Louisiana at Lafayette ) . He supported the French heritage movement and the Acadiana Regional Airport in New Iberia in Iberia Parish . At the time of his death , he was serving in an advisory capacity with Louisiana Land & Exploration Company He died in the first few days of 1987 , another primary election year for governor and other state constitutional offices . Survivors included his wife ; three sons , Dr . Kenneth J . Aycock ( born 1949 ) , Joseph Wesley " Jody " Aycock ( born 1947 ) and Larry Thomas Aycock ( born 1955 ) and three daughters , Mrs . Dirk ( Barbara ) Ory ( born 1946 ) , Mrs . Michael ( Mary Margaret ) Valse ( born 1951 ) , and Mrs . Greg ( Susan ) Fleniken ( born 1958 ) , his sister , Mrs . Steven ( Mary Ida Aycock ) Dupuis ( November 17 , 1918 - February 27 , 2009 ) , and his stepmother , Amy W . Aycock ( December 19 , 1909 - May 29 , 2006 ) . He is interred at Franklin Cemetery in his native Franklin , Louisiana .