the Louisiana Legislature gerrymandered Caffery's district to remove his stronghold of Lafayette Parish (moving it to Edwards' 7th District) and replace it with portions of Jefferson Parish, in which they thought he would fare poorly. In spite of this opposition from the Democratic political machine, Caffery polled extremely well in Jefferson Parish and even more so in the rest of the district and easily defeated the Machine candidate, State Senator Jules Mollere of Jefferson Parish in the 1970 Democratic Primary. Caffery ran without opposition in the general election in both 1968 and 1970. Representative Caffery was once called upon to join U.S. Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota to answer President Richard M. Nixon's State of the Union message. In 1970 he was selected by NBC News as the outstanding freshman congressman of the 91st Congress. As he left office he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Americans for Constitutional Action. From 1988 to 1992, he served under Governor Buddy Roemer as a member of the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors.[ Caffery did not seek a third term in 1972 and returned to his law practice in New Iberia. His seat then went Republican with the victory of future Governor David C. Treen, who had lost three House elections in the 1960s in Louisiana's 2nd congressional district. In defeating the Democrat J. Louis Watkins, Jr., of Houma in Terrebonne Parish, Treen became the first Republican to represent a Louisiana district in the U.S. House since Hamilton D. Coleman held the Second District seat from 1889 to 1891. Personal life In 1954, Caffery married Anne Leontine Bercegeay of Charenton in St. Mary Parish. There are three Caffery sons, Patrick, Jr., Kevin, and Michael. Death Caffery died in New Iberia at the age of eighty-one a week before Christmas, 2013. He is interred at Beau Pre Cemetery in Jeanerette in Iberia Parish. External links Notes 1932 births 2013 deaths People from St. Mary Parish, Louisiana People from New Iberia, Louisiana Louisiana lawyers Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni Louisiana State University Law Center alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana 20th-century American politicians People from Franklin, Louisiana 20th-century American lawyers