Career
He later played for the Shreveport Steamer of the World Football League. Edd passed for 5379 yards in his 3 year career (1966-1968) at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical. This was a Texas Agricultural and Mechanical passing record at the time, eclipsed first by Kevin Murray in 1986. He at one time held the Agricultural and Mechanical all-time record for most total yards in one game (418 against SMU in 1968), a record currently held (as of 2012) by Johnny Manziel.
Hargett was an honor student in electrical engineering at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical and later served as the manager of the Houston County Electric Company-op in Crockett, Texas.
In 1985, Hargett ran unsuccessfully as a Republican in a special election for the United States House of Representatives, having secured the support of such party leaders as former state Republican chairman Chet Upham. Hargett lost the race to the Democrat Jim Chapman of Sulphur Springs.
The vacancy occurred when United States. Representative Sam B. Hall, Junior., of Marshall resigned to accept a federal judicial appointment from United States. President Ronald West. Reagan. In 1986, the Republican Party again picked Hargett to run in another special election, this time for a recently vacated seat in the Texas Senate.