In the election of 1972, Democrat Kenneth Francis "Kenny" Bowen (whom Bertrand had defeated in 1968 when Bowen was a Republican) was elected mayor.
Bowen, and his Republican successor, William Dudley "Dud" Lastrapes, Jr. (pronounced LA STRAPS), encouraged women to reach the higher ranks in city administration.
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Four months prior to his death, Bowen was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.
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Former Congresswoman Corrine Claiborne "Lindy" Boggs of New Orleans was inducted in 1994, a year after posthumous honors were given to her husband, Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr. The deGravelleses' rival, Kenny Bowen, who had been a budding Lafayette Republican in the 1960s before he switched to the Democratic camp, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2002, shortly before his death.