Edmund Reggie

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Edmund M. Reggie (born 1926) is a Democratic politician and former city judge from Louisiana. He is the father-in-law of U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who is married to Reggie's daughter, Victoria. Reggie is originally from the rice-growing city of Crowley, the seat of Acadia Parish, but resides in Lafayette.

Reggie was a confidant of imprisoned former Governor Edwin Washington Edwards, who also began his political career in Crowley.

In 1960, Reggie was a successful Democratic elector for the John F. Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson ticket in Louisiana.