Career
Earlier, in 1956, Blue was a Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives from the Orleans Parish-based Louisiana"s 2nd congressional district. Blue failed in his Grand Old Party challenge to Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs In the Second District, Boggs defeated Blue, 69,715 (645 percent) to 38,344 (355 percent). As a Republican candidate, Blue fared better against Boggs than had the party"s 1960 choice, Elliot Ross Buckley, a cousin of magazine publisher William F. Buckley, Junior., who had received only 22 percent of the vote.
Blue later switched to the Democratic Party.
He was then twice elected to an at-large seat in the Louisiana House from Jefferson Parish in 1964 and 1968. His legislative tenure hence paralleled the gubernatorial administration of Democrat John McKeithen.
Blue was born in Houston, Texas.