- 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. - 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. - 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, … - Cynthia Hedge-Morrell
Cynthia Hedge-Morrell (born in 1947) is a teacher, a former school administrator and a Democratic politician from New Orleans. She holds a Bachelor of Administration in Elementary Education from the University of New Orleans and a Master Degree of Science from Loyola University of New Orleans. She has served as Councilmember representing New Orleans District D, since 2005. - Bill Cassidy
William Morgan "Bill" Cassidy, M.D. (born September 28, 1957), is a Louisiana state senator, physician, teacher, community leader, and Republican Party activist from Baton Rouge. Cassidy specializes in the treatment of diseases of the liver, both in private practice and at the Earl K. Long State Hospital. He is married to Laura Cassidy, herself a physician, and they have three children: Will, Meg, and Kate. - Moon Landrieu
Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu (born July 23, 1930) is a Democrat and a Louisiana politician who served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to 1978. He also is a former judge. He represented New Orleans' Twelfth Ward in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966, served on the New Orleans City Council as a member at Large from 1966 to 1970 and was the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1979 to 1981. - Billy Chandler
Billy Ray Chandler (born December 1937), a Democrat from the village of Dry Prong in Grant Parish, represents District 22 in the Louisiana House of Representatives. The district encompasses seventy-two precincts from Grant, LaSalle, and parts of Winn and northern Rapides parishes in the north central portion of the state. He won a special election for the post on April 29, 2006. - Judah P. Benjamin
Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 - May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born British, and died a resident in England. He held the following posts: * representative in the Louisiana state legislature *U.S. Senator for Louisiana *three successive Cabinet posts in the government of the Confederate States of America He was also a distinguished barrister and Queen's Counsel in England. - 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. - Billy Montgomery
Billy Wayne Montgomery (born July 7, 1937) is a former educator who has represented the Bossier City-based District 9 in the Louisiana House of Representatives since 1988. Montgomery has relocated from his previous residence in Haughton in western Bossier Parish to live once again in Bossier City. He was elected as a Democrat, but he switched affiliation to the Republican Party on October 3, 2006. - Jock Scott
John Wyeth "Jock" Scott, II (born June 29, 1947), is a lawyer and college professor in Alexandria, who served three terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives, first as a Democrat (1976-1985) and then as a Republican (1985-1988). He was defeated in a race for the Louisiana State Senate in 1987. He has also lost two bids for the United States House of Representatives: a 1985 special election, when he ran as a Democrat, … - Jackie Clarkson
Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson (born 1935) is a prominent Realtor and Democratic politician from New Orleans. She served on the New Orleans City Council from District C from 1990 to 1994 and from 2002 to 2006 and as state representative for District 102 from 1994 to 2002. The boundaries of District 102 are roughly the same as the Algiers neighborhood (also known as the Fifteenth Ward) in New Orleans. - Clark Gaudin
Edward Clark Gaudin (born December 26, 1931) is a Baton Rouge attorney who served for twenty-one years in the Louisiana House of Representatives (1967-1968; 1972-1992) as the first Republican member from East Baton Rouge Parish in the 20th century. - James David Cain
James David Cain (born October 13, 1938) is a retired farmer and rancher from the Dry Creek community in eastern Beauregard Parish, who is a departing Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate. Term-limited, Cain is ineligible to run for a fifth term in the jungle primary scheduled for October 20, 2007. His Senate District 30 encompasses parts of Beauregard, Calcasieu, and Vernon parishes in western Louisiana. - Cedric Glover
Cedric Bradford Glover (born August 9 1965) is the Democratic mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana -- the first African American to hold the position. There were originally eleven candidates for mayor who sought to succeed the retiring Democrat Keith Hightower, including a former Hightower aide and former television reporter, Democrat Liz Swaine, and a Republican state senator, Max T. Malone. All were eliminated in the jungle primary. - John Hainkel
John Joseph Hainkel, Jr., (born New Orleans, March 24, 1938; died Poplarville, Mississippi, April 15, 2005) was a gregarious, ruffled, and raspy-voiced legislator from New Orleans who died in office after thirty-seven years of service. He was the only person in Louisiana and United States history to have served as both Speaker of his state House of Representatives and president of his state Senate. (Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock of Franklin, the seat of St. Mary Parish, … - Jesse Monroe Knowles
Jesse Monroe Knowles was a Lake Charles, businessman, civic leader, former member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Calcasieu Parish, and a survivor of the Bataan Death March in World War II. He was born in Merryville in Beauregard Parish but had resided in Lake Charles since 1935. Knowles graduated from Lake Charles High School (renamed Lake Charles Boston High School after desegregation). - 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), … - Jimmy D. Long
Jimmy Dale Long, Sr. (born October 6, 1931), is the current chairman of the University of Louisiana System board of supervisors and a former Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He represented District 23 (Winn and Natchitoches parishes) from 1968 until 2000, being the "dean" of the Louisiana House when he returned to private life. He is a recognized authority on educational policy. For sixteen years, he chaired the House Education Committee. - Oramel H. Simpson
Oramel Hinckley Simpson (March 20, 1870 -- November 17, 1932) became governor of the state of Louisiana in 1926, upon the death of his predecessor, Henry L. Fuqua. He was defeated -- he ran third in the critical Democratic primary -- in his bid for a full term in 1928 by the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr., of Winnfield, the seat of Winn Parish. Simpson was born in Washington, a small town in St. - Robert Kostelka
Robert William "Bob" Kostelka (born February 18, 1933) is a former district attorney, district judge, and circuit judge, and, currently, a conservative Republican state senator from Monroe, Louisiana, who has represented Ouachita, Lincoln, and Jackson parishes in Senate District 35 since 2004. Kostelka retired from his circuit judgeship in 2003, when he reached the age of seventy, as required by an amendment to the Louisiana Constitution. - Robert J. Barham
Robert Jocelyn Barham (born January 25, 1949) is a farmer and a term-limited Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate who represents Claiborne, Morehouse, Union, and West Carroll parishes, all of which border Arkansas in the northernmost section of his state. At the conclusion of his last regular legislative session in 2007, Barham told an interviewer that Louisiana should concentrate on anti-litter efforts and highway construction. - Cecil J. Picard
Cecil J. Picard (January 1, 1938-February 15, 2007) was the appointed Louisiana state superintendent of education from 1996 until his death, which followed a 21-month fight against the deadly Lou Gehrig's disease. Picard was also a former Democratic member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature. He was originally from the village of Maurice in Vermilion Parish in southwestern Louisiana, having previously been a teacher, coach, and principal. - Sidney Barthelemy
Sidney John Barthelemy (born March 17, 1942) was the Democratic African American mayor of New Orleans from 1986 to 1994. Prior to that, he was a member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1974 to 1978 and a member at-large of the New Orleans City Council from 1978 to 1986. - Donald Ray Kennard
Donald Ray Kennard (born August 11, 1937) is a former educator and a politician who has represented part of East Baton Rouge Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives since 1976. Originally a Democrat, Kennard switched his partisan affiliation in 1995, when he won the first of three terms as a Republican. In the 1987 jungle primary, Kennard defeated the Republican Michael "Mike" Harig, 10,310 (69 percent) to 4,693 (31 percent). - Ben Bagert
Bernard John "Ben" Bagert, Jr. (born December 1943) is a prominent New Orleans lawyer who was a Democratic member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from 1970-1992. Bagert switched affiliation to the Republican Party and mounted a challenge in 1990 to entrenched Democratic U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., of Shreveport, first elected in 1972. - B.L. Shaw
B.L. "Buddy" Shaw (born September 6, 1933) is a retired educator and a former member of both the Caddo Parish School Board and the Louisiana House of Representatives. A Republican, Shaw held the District 6 state House seat, which includes south and southeast Shreveport, from 1996-2004. Renowned for his constitutent service, Shaw did not seek reelection to a third term in the 2003 jungle primary, … - A. J. McNamara
Abel J. "Buddy" McNamara (born 1936), usually known as A.J. McNamara, is a U.S. District Court judge from the New Orleans-based Eastern District of Louisiana who served full-time from June 21, 1982, until the fall of 2001, when he assumed "senior status". Previously, McNamara served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from populous Jefferson Parish in suburban New Orleans. - Lane Carson
Lane Anderson Carson (born August 21, 1947) is a Covington (St. Tammany Parish) attorney who was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1976-1983. He represented House District 99 in Orleans Parish, first as a Democrat (1976-1977) and thereafter as a member of the Republican Party. Carson was the first Vietnam veteran to serve in the Louisiana legislature. During his legislative tenure, Carson served on the Civil Law, House & Governmental, … - Cecil R. Blair
Cecil Ray Blair (April 2, 1916 - July 6, 2001) was a Rapides Parish farmer and businessman who was a Democratic member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1952-1956. His service in the Louisiana State Senate came in two segments, 1960-1964 and 1966-1976. He lived, first, in the Paradise Community north of the Red River in northern Rapides Parish and, later, … - 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. - Ned Randolph
Edward Gordon "Ned" Randolph, Jr. (born January 1942), a veteran Democratic Party politician, was the mayor of Alexandria in central Louisiana for 20 years. He turned over the office to fellow Democrat Jacques M. Roy on December 4, 2006. Randolph was also a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1972-1976) and the Louisiana State Senate (1976-1984). In 1982 and 1992, Randolph was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives, … - W. L. Rambo
Willard Lloyd Rambo (March 22, 1917 - November 28, 1984) was a Democratic member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature, having represented districts in the north central portion of the state during the 1950s and the 1960s. As a native and lifelong resident of tiny Georgetown in Grant Parish north of Alexandria, Rambo was a member of the Long political dynasty through his second marriage to the former Mary Alice Long (born August 1, 1928). - Max T. Malone
Max Tatum Malone (born March 3, 1953) is the president of Malone Oil and Gas Exploration Company in Shreveport and a retiring Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, in which he has served since 1996. Term-limited in the District 37 seat, which includes portions of Caddo and Bossier parishes in northwestern Louisiana, Malone cannot seek a fourth term in the October 20, 2007, jungle primary. - 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, … - Tommy Casanova
Tommy Casanova (born Thomas H. Casanova, III, July 29, 1950, in New Orleans) is an opthalmologist in Crowley, Louisiana, who is a former American football player and politician. He played football for the LSU Tigers and the Cincinnati Bengals. He was also a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1996-2000. - 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, … - Jared Y. Sanders Jr.
John Young Sanders, Jr., was a prominent Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, the Louisiana State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives, perhaps best known for his conservative opposition to legendary Governor and U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and his support of the States' Rights Party in 1960. Sanders was born in Franklin, the seat of St. Mary Parish to Governor Jared Young Sanders, Sr. (1908-1912), … - A.C. Clemons
A.C. "Ace" Clemons, Jr. (April 16, 1921 - October 19, 1992), was the first Republican to have served in the Louisiana State Senate since Reconstruction. Clemons was elected as a Democrat in 1960, 1964, and 1968 from what is now District 14 in southwestern Louisiana, which then included portions of five parishes: Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis. He switched his political affiliation in 1970 in his final two years in the state Senate. - Taylor W. O'Hearn
Taylor Walters O'Hearn (July 6, 1907-- April 2, 1997) was a pioneer in the rebirth of the Republican Party in Louisiana during the mid-twentieth century. He and Morley A. Hudson, both of Shreveport in Caddo Parish, were the first two Republicans elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction. They served single terms from 1964-1968. O'Hearn was born in Shreveport to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest O'Hearn. Ernest O'Hearn, who was probably born in New Orleans, …
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