Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton, Jr.

Who is Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton, Jr.?

Edgar G. Mouton, Jr., known as Sonny Mouton, is an 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 governor in the 1979 nonpartisan blanket primary.

Thereafter, Mouton became the executive counsel to newly elected Governor David C. Treen, the first Republican to hold the office since Reconstruction. In 1985, he returned briefly as a special consultant to Governor Edwin Washington Edwards, who had won a third term in the 1983 primary by unseating Treen.

Mouton was born in Lafayette to Mr. and Mrs. Edgar G. Mouton, Sr. He attended Cathedral High School and graduated as class valedictorian in 1947. He received his bachelor's degree from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1951. In 1953, he obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the Tulane University Law School.