 Pleasant prevailed with 80,807 votes (62.5 percent) to Parker's 37.2 percent.Parker, a friend of Theodore Roosevelt's until their political split in 1916, thereafter returned to the Democratic Party and won the 1920 gubernatorial election with Pleasant's support.At the time Louisiana governors could serve only one four-year term and could not seek a second term until four years had lapsed since the end of a previous term.