- David Duke
David Ernest Duke is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, a candidate in presidential primaries for both the Democratic and Republican parties, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke is a self-styled "white nationalist," and he is commonly referred to by his opponents as a white supremacist. He says he does not think of himself as a racist, however, … - Bobby Jindal
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Louisiana politician. Jindal was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives on November 2, 2004, from Louisiana's First Congressional District (map), based in the suburbs of New Orleans. He was re-elected to Congress in the 2006 election with 88 percent of the vote in the 1st district. He intends to be a candidate for Governor of Louisiana in the October 20, 2007 election. - Hale Boggs
Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr., was an American Democratic politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana. He was the House Majority Leader. In 1972, while he was still Majority Leader, the twin engine airplane in which Boggs was traveling over a remote section of Alaska disappeared. The plane presumably crashed and was never found. Congressman Nick Begich was also presumed killed in the same accident. - Walter Boasso
Walter Joseph Boasso (born ca. 1960) is a Democratic state senator from Chalmette, in south Louisiana and a candidate for governor in the October 20, 2007, jungle primary. He represents District 1, which includes St. Bernard Parish and surrounding areas that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. - Louis Lambert
Louis Joseph Lambert, Jr. (born December 21, 1940), is a Louisiana attorney and businessman who is best remembered for having been the first Democrat since Reconstruction to have lost a contested gubernatorial general election to a Republican candidate. Only two other Democrats, state Senator (and former congressman) Cleo Fields and Congressman William J. Jefferson, both blacks, have similarly lost gubernatorial races to a Republican. - Mary Landrieu
Mary Loretta Landrieu (born November 23, 1955) is the Senior Democratic United States senator from the state of Louisiana, as well as the first, and as of 2007, only woman from that state to be elected to the Senate. She is the daughter of former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu and the sister of current Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu. By national standards, Landrieu is one of the more conservative Democrats in the U.S. Senate. - Foster Campbell
Foster L. Campbell, Jr. (born January 6, 1947) is a Democratic member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, a former 26-year member of the Louisiana State Senate, and a candidate for Governor in the October 20, 2007, jungle primary. Born in Shreveport, Campbell graduated from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches with a bachelor of science degree. After graduation, he became a salesman of agricultural supplies until 1976, … - E. L. Henry
Edgerton L. "Bubba" Henry (born February 10, 1936) is a Baton Rouge attorney, lobbyist, and partner of the high-powered firm Adams and Reese who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1968-1980. He was Speaker from 1972-1980. Henry was Governor Edwin Washington Edwards's choice for Speaker. Though he was considered reform-minded, some conservatives still questioned Henry's commitment to reform. - Gillis William Long
Gillis William Long (May 4, 1923 - January 20, 1985) was among numerous members of the powerful Long political dynasty who held public office in Louisiana during the twentieth century. He served seven nonconsecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives but placed a strong third in two campaigns for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination -- 1963 and 1971. - Billy Tauzin
Wilbert Joseph Tauzin, II, usually known as Billy Tauzin, (born June 14 1943), American politician of Cajun descent, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1980 to 2005, representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. A lifelong resident of Chackbay, Louisiana, a small town just outside Thibodaux, … - William J. Jefferson
William Jennings Jefferson (born March 14, 1947) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, Jefferson has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1991. He represents, which includes much of the greater New Orleans area. He is Louisiana's first black Congressman since the end of Reconstruction. He is currently the subject of a corruption probe, and in May 2006 his Congressional offices were raided, … - Cleo Fields
Cleo Fields (born November 22, 1962) is a lawyer and politician. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana. Fields was born in Port Allen, Louisiana. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Southern University in his Baton Rouge. He failed his bar exam approximately 6 times before eventually passing. Field was elected as a Democrat to the Louisiana Senate in 1986. - Bob Livingston
Robert Linlithgow Livingston, Jr., better known as Bob Livingston (born April 30, 1943), is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He is best known for being chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998, only to resign in the wake of a sex scandal. Livingston was born in Colorado Springs, but spent most of his youth in New Orleans. - Hunt Downer
Huntington Blair "Hunt" Downer, Jr. (born April 28, 1946), is a Republican politician in the U.S. state of Louisiana who is the assistant adjutant general of the state National Guard and the first ever director of the new Louisiana Veterans Affairs Department. A former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Houma, the seat of Terrebonne Parish in south Louisiana, Downer ran for governor in 2003 and finished in sixth place in the jungle primary. - Jay Blossman
Jack Arthur "Jay" Blossman, Jr. (born October 3, 1964), is a Covington attorney who is a Republican member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. Blossman was named PSC chairman by his colleagues early in 2007. Blossman's First District seat encompasses all or parts of Ascension, Jefferson, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington parishes in south Louisiana. - Bennett Johnston Jr.
John Bennett Johnston, Jr. (born June 10, 1932), is a wealthy Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist who was a U.S. Democratic Party politician and United States senator from Louisiana from 1972 until 1997. - Paul Hardy
Paul Jude Hardy (born October 18, 1942) is a Baton Rouge attorney who was the first Republican and thus far the only Republican to have been elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction. He served in the second-ranking post from 1988-1992. Hardy's parents were Florent Hardy, Sr., (1913-2003) and the former Agnes Angelle. He graduated from Cecilia High School in St. - Richard Ieyoub
Richard Phillip Ieyoub, Sr. (born August 11, 1944), is a Baton Rouge lawyer with the firm Couhig Partners and a Democratic politician who was the attorney general of Louisiana from 1992-2004 and was the Calcasieu Parish district attorney in Lake Charles from 1984-1992. Ieyoub, a political personality allied with his party's liberal wing, finished in a disappointing third place in the jungle primary for the U.S. Senate in 1996 and for the Louisiana governorship in 2003. - James Benjamin Aswell
James Benjamin Aswell, Sr. (December 23, 1869 - March 16, 1931) was a prominent educator and a Democratic U.S. representative from Louisiana, who served from 1913 until his death, which occurred twelve days into his tenth term. Aswell was born in the Vernon community in rural Jackson Parish in north Louisiana to Benjamin W. Aswell and the former Elizabeth A. Lyles. He attended local schools and graduated with teaching credentials in 1892 from Peabody College, … - John Rarick
John Richard Rarick (born January 29, 1924) is a lawyer in St. Francisville, the seat of West Feliciana Parish, who was a Democratic congressman from southern Louisiana between 1967 and 1975. A staunch conservative, he frequently quarreled with his party's increasingly liberal philosophy and leadership. In 1980, he sought the presidency as the nominee of the former American Independent Party, which had been founded in 1968 by George C. Wallace, Jr., of Alabama. - Wade O. Martin Jr.
Wade Omer Martin, Jr. (April 18, 1911-- August 6, 1990) was the Democratic secretary of state in Louisiana under five governors, having served from 1944-1976. Though originally part of the Long faction, Martin quarreled with Governor Earl Kemp Long during Long's third term in office, and Long relieved Martin of nearly all of his powers as secretary of state. After he considered a gubernatorial bid on several occasions, Martin finally ran for governor in 1975, when, … - Shelby M. Jackson
Shelby M. Jackson (November 20, 1903-- January 1972) was a Democratic superintendent of public education in Louisiana who served from 1948-1964. In the early 1960s, he tried in vain to block federally-authorized school desegregation. Jackson was posthumously honored in 1994, by the naming of the "Shelby M. Jackson Memorial Campus" of Louisiana Technical College in Ferriday in his native Concordia Parish. - John G. Schwegmann
John Gerald Schwegmann, Jr., (August 14, 1911 - March 6, 1995) was a pioneer in the development of the modern supermarket. He owned eighteen stores in the Greater New Orleans area, based from Metairie, a large unincorporated city in Jefferson Parish. He was also active in Louisiana politics, having served in the state House of Representatives from 1960-1968, the state Senate from 1968-1972, and the Louisiana Public Service Commission from 1975-1980. - Ken Hollis
Jesse Kendrick "Ken" Hollis (born March 13, 1942) is a retiring Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Metairie in Jefferson Parish in the New Orleans suburbs. He has served since 1982, when he won a special election to fill an unexpired term. In 2003, Hollis launched an exploratory campaign for governor but never filed his papers even though he claimed that his early polling was encouraging. He instead endorsed intraparty rival Hunt Downer of Houma, … - Bill Dodd
William Joseph "Bill" Dodd held some half dozen important positions in Louisiana government in the mid-twentieth century, including the offices of state representative, lieutenant governor, state auditor, president of the State Board of Education, and state education superintendent, but he never achieved his ultimate goal: the state's powerful Napoleonic-style governorship. Twice Dodd failed to win the pivotal Democratic gubernatorial nomination: 1952 and 1959. - Speedy O. Long
Speedy Oteria Long was a Jena (La Salle Parish) lawyer who was a conservative Democratic U.S. Representative from central Louisiana between 1965 and 1973. Prior to his tenure in the since disbanded Eighth Congressional District, Speedy Long had been a member of the Louisiana state Senate (1956-1964). After he left Congress, he became the district attorney (1973-1985) for the Jena-based 28th Judicial District. - Ed Karst
Charles Edward "Ed" Karst (ca. 1931 - July 17, 1992) was an attorney and politician remembered for his controversial tenure as the mayor (1969-1973) of Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish and the largest city in central Louisiana. In 1991, Karst launched a bizarre "No Party" gubernatorial campaign in which he threatened if elected to fire the members of the Louisiana Supreme Court or, if defeated, as he was, to kill the justices, who had upheld his disbarment. - Floyd W. Smith Jr.
Floyd William Smith, Jr. (born September 17, 1932), is a semiretired businessman and Democratic politician in Winn Parish, Louisiana, the traditional home of the Long dynasty. He was a second cousin of former U.S. Representative Speedy O. Long (1928-2006) of La Salle Parish and a cousin of varying degrees of kinship to other Longs as well. - Quentin Dastugue
Quentin D. Dastugue (born December 1955) is a founding partner and the chief executive officer of the New Orleans-based real estate firm Property One, Inc., and a former four-term member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Dastugue (pronounced DAS TOOG) was elected as a Democrat to the state House in 1979 and 1983 as the District 82 representative for Jefferson Parish. In 1984, as he began his second term, … - De Lesseps Story Morrison
DeLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr., (January 18, 1912 -- May 22, 1964) was the mayor of New Orleans from 1946-1961 who failed in three hard-fought bids for the then pivotal Louisiana Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He also served as an appointee of President John F. Kennedy as the United States ambassador to the Organization of American States between 1961 and 1963. DeLesseps Morrison (pronounced DEL ES SEPPS) was born in New Roads, the seat of Pointe Coupee Parish. - Jimmy Fitzmorris
James Edward "Jimmy" Fitzmorris, Jr., is a New Orleans businessman and civic leader who was the Democratic lieutenant governor of Louisiana from 1972–1980. He was the first full-time lieutenant governor in Louisiana history, and in his first term, prior to implementation of the Constitution of 1974, he was the last lieutenant governor whose duties included presiding over the state senate. In 1979, he ran third in the jungle primary for governor. - Melinda Schwegmann
Melinda B. Schwegmann (born October 25, 1946) was the Democratic lieutenant governor of Louisiana from 1992-1996 -- the first woman to hold the position. She made an ill-fated run for governor in 1995. In 1997, she won a special election to the Louisiana State House of Representatives, District 98, from the Orleans Parish Lakefront, a predominantly African American area. She was elected to a full term in 1999. - Wade O. Martin Sr.
Wade Omer Martin, Sr. (March 4, 1885 -- August 10, 1956) was a Louisiana planter, educator, and politician allied with the Huey Pierce Long, Jr., faction of the Democratic Party. Martin's longest tenure was on the Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) (District 2) for 24 years, beginning with his election in 1932. After Long's assassination, Martin attempted to run for governor in 1935 but was unable to mount a serious campaign. Martin was born in Arnaudville in St. - Randy Ewing
Randy Lew Ewing (born February 10, 1944) is a Jackson Parish businessman who, as a Democrat, represented District 35 (Jackson, Lincoln, Union, and part of Ouachita parishes) in the Louisiana State Senate from 1988-2000. He was the State Senate President in his last term from 1996-2000, which corresponded with the first term of Republican Governor Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr. Ewing recalls his humble roots. - Charlton Lyons
Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr. (September 3, 1894 - August 8,1973), was a Shreveport oilman who in 1964 waged the first well-organized Republican bid for the Louisiana governorship since Reconstruction. Lyons also made a strong but losing bid for the United States House of Representatives in a special election in 1961. He is often considered the "father of the modern Republican Party in Louisiana." - Clarennce C. Aycock
Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock (January 13, 1915 - January 6, 1987), a conservative Democrat from Franklin in St. Mary Parish, was the only three-term lieutenant governor in modern Louisiana history. He served from 1960 - 1972. Aycock failed in his only bid for governor in the 1971 Democratic primary. Aycock was born in Franklin to Clarence A. Aycock (1885 - 1948) and Inez Crask. - Cleveland Dear
Cleveland Dear (August 22, 1888 - December 30, 1950) was a United States Representative from the state of Louisiana and a one-time gubernatorial candidate. He served two terms in Congress as a Democrat from central Louisiana. He was a member of the anti-Long political faction. Dear was born in Sugartown in Beauregard Parish in western Louisiana. He attended Louisiana State University, both undergraduate and law school, in Baton Rouge and was admitted to the bar in 1914. - Riley J. Wilson
Riley Joseph Wilson (November 12, 1871 - February 23, 1946) was a Louisiana educator, attorney, and legislator in the first half of the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th Century. A Democrat, Wilson served in the United States House of Representatives from from 1915 until 1937. He was defeated for renomination in 1936. He was born near Goldonna in Winn Parish, the traditional In 1894, he graduated from Iuka Normal Institute in Iuka (Tishomingo County), … - Lucille May Grace
Lucille May Grace a.k.a. Mrs. Fred Columbus Dent, Sr., (October 3, 1900 -- December 22, 1957) was the first woman to attain statewide elected office in Louisiana. A Democrat, "Miss Grace," as she preferred to be called, became Register of the State Land Office in 1931 on appointment of Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr. She succeeded her father, who died in office, and she was elected in her own right in 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1956. - Robert G. Jones
Robert Gambrell "Bob" Jones (born May 9, 1939) is a stockbroker in Lake Charles who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1968-1972 and in the State Senate from 1972-1976. He is the son of the late Louisiana Governor Sam Houston Jones. In 1975, Jones was an unsuccessful intraparty opponent to Democratic Governor Edwin Washington Edwards, who secured the second of four nonconsecutive gubernatorial terms in the state's first ever jungle primary.
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