In the general election held on April 19, 1960, Aycock defeated Republican Clark Clinton Boardman (October 14, 1887 – July 8, 1965), retired engineer from Monroe in Ouachita Parish; he is interred at Riverview Cemetery in Monroe. A native of St. Croix County, Wisconsin, received his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering in 1909 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Boardman and his wife, the former Ethel V. Martin (1889–1989), had one son, Grant Clinton Boardman, II (1925–2010), a Louisiana State University graduate named for his grandfather. This Boardman was an engineer with Sid W. Richardson Carbon and Gas in Fort Worth, Texas, for much of his career.