On leaving the legislature, Forster was succeeded by another Democrat, who later turned Republican, but one more liberal than most Louisiana Republicans, Melinda Schwegmann, who in 1991 was elected to a single term as lieutenant governor.
Mrs. Schwegmann is a past president of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Neither Schwegmann, Holloway, nor an African American Republican, Kirt Bennett of Baton Rouge, was competitive against Mitch Landrieu.
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In 1997, she won a special election to the Louisiana State House of Representatives, District 98, from the Orleans Parish Lakefront, a predominantly African American area, previously represented for fifteen years by a conservative Republican Garey Forster.
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She is married to former Public Service Commissioner John F. Schwegmann (born 1945) of Metairie in Jefferson Parish.
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