- 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, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - Edwards Barham
Erle Edwards Barham (born July 10, 1937) is an American farmer and conservationist in Oak Ridge, a village in Morehouse Parish in north Louisiana, best known for having been the first Republican elected -- by a 29-vote margin -- to the Louisiana State Senate since the era of Reconstruction. Barham represented the agricultural District 33 from 1976-1980. He was narrowly unseated in the 1979 jungle primary by the Democrat David Ginn, who held the seat until 1988. - 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, … - George H. Wells
George H. Wells (September 1, 1833 - February 1, 1905) was a Northern-born officer in the Army of the Confederate States of America and an attorney and Democratic politician in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Wells was born in Schenectady, New York, to Joel Wells and the former Susan Bellows. He was educted in the Schenectady public schools. During the American Civil War, Wells enlisted as a private in Company G of the Eleventh Louisiana Infantry. - 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. - 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, … - 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. - 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, … - 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, … - 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. - 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, … - 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. - J. Lomax Jordan
J. Lomax "Max" Jordan, Jr. (born May 17, 1952), is a Lafayette attorney who was a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1992-2000. He was unseated for the District 23 seat (parts of Lafayette and Acadia parishes) in the 1999 jungle primary by then state Representative Michael John "Mike" Michot, also a Republican. Jordan was born in Lafayette to Mr. and Mrs. J. Lomax Jordan, Sr. - William M. Rainach
William Monroe "Willie" Rainach, Sr. (July 13, 1913 -- January 26, 1978), was a state legislator from the town of Summerfield in Claiborne Parish who led Louisiana's "Massive Resistance" to desegregation during the last half of the 1950s. He served Claiborne and neighboring Bienville Parish in north Louisiana for three terms in the Louisiana State Senate from 1948-1960. Earlier, he represented Claiborne Parish in the state Louisiana House of Representatives from 1940-1948. - John Henry Baker
John Henry Baker, III (born October 20, 1934), is a semiretired farmer and landholder from Franklin Parish who was active in the rebirth of the Republican Party in Louisiana during the 1970s and 1980s. Baker was his party's nominee for the District 22 seat in the Louisiana State Senate in 1972 and for the former position of state elections commissioner in 1979. - James H. Morrison
James Hobson "Jimmy" Morrison, Sr. (December 8, 1908 - July 20, 2000), was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the Baton Rouge-centered Sixth Congressional District of Louisiana, who served from 1943-1967. Morrison, considered to have been a liberal by southern standards at the time, was denied party renomination in 1966 by the strongly conservative John Richard Rarick, an attorney in St. Francisville, the seat of West Feliciana Parish. - Edwin E. Willis
Edwin Edward Willis (October 2, 1904 -- October 24, 1972) was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Louisiana who was affiliated with the Long political faction. A Democrat, he served in the Louisiana State Senate during 1948 and in the United States House of Representatives from 1949-1969. Willis was born in Arnaudville in St. Landry Parish, the eleventh of twelve children of Olanda Willis and the former Julia Hardy. He graduated from St. - 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. - Michael J. Michot
Michael John "Mike" Michot (born December 12, 1963) is a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, who has served from District 23 in Lafayette Parish since the year 2000. Previously, he served in District 43 in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1996-2000. Michot was elected as a Democrat to the House but switched parties on June 23, 1997, not quite midway in his term. - A.A. Fredericks
Albert Asa Fredericks was an educator and a Democratic politician from Natchitoches, Louisiana, who was affiliated with the powerful Long faction. Fredericks, principally known as A.A. Fredericks, was born in the Clear Lake Community in Natchitoches Parish to Nolberry Fredericks and the former Emily Cannon. He was educated in local schools and at Northwestern State University, an institution which he would head as president from 1934-1941. - Pierre Bossier
Pierre Evariste Jean-Baptiste Bossier (March 22, 1797 -- April 24, 1844) was a soldier, planter, and politician born in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Bossier Parish (pronounced BO ZURE), which includes the parish seat of Benton and the larger Bossier City, located east of the Red River from Shreveport, is named for him. Bossier was the son of Francois Paul Bossier and the former Catherine Pelagie Lambre. He received a classical education privately. - 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), … - Mike Francis
Michael Gordon "Mike" Francis (born 1946) is a prominent Crowley businessman who was the chairman of the Republican Party in Louisiana from 1994-2000. A staunch fiscal and social conservative, Francis was an unsuccessful candidate for Louisiana secretary of state in a special election held on September 30, 2006. He has indicated that he will seek the position again in the jungle primary on October 20, 2007. "I will work to ensure the right to vote. - Hazel Beard
Hazel F. Beard (born 1930) is the first woman and the first Republican to have served as mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, since Reconstruction. A fiscal conservative and a small business owner, Mrs. Beard grappled with many economic and social problems during her single term as mayor from 1990-1994. She was a member of the city council at the time of her election as mayor. She was the first woman to have been chairperson of the city council. - Lorris M. Wimberly
Lorris May Wimberly, Sr. (1898-1962), was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1928-1940 and again from 1948-1956. A native and resident of Arcadia, the seat of Bienville Parish in north Louisiana, Wimberly was House Speaker from 1936-1940, 1950-1952, and from May 14-July 10, 1956. He was also the state highway department director during the 1940s and headed the Department of Public Works from 1956-1960. - Isaac Edward Morse
Isaac Edward Morse (May 22, 1809 - February 11, 1866) was a United States Congressman from Louisiana and Attorney General of Louisiana. He was born in Attakapas, Louisiana. He attended school in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and the Norwich Military Academy in Norwich, Vermont. He graduated from Harvard University in 1829. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced in New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Martinville, Louisiana, from 1835 to 1842. - 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. - W. George Bowdon Jr.
William George Bowdon, Jr., (October 18, 1921 - November 17, 2005) was the Democratic mayor of Alexandria, the largest city in central Louisiana, from 1953-1969. At 31, he was (and still remains) the youngest mayor in his city's history and the first to serve a four-year, instead of a two-year, term. Prior to his mayoralty, Bowdon had served a single term in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1948-1952. One of his immediate House successors was Cecil R. Blair, … - 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. - Caesar Antoine
Caesar Carpetier Antoine (1836 - 1921) was one of three African American Republicans who served as lieutenant governor of Louisiana during the era of Reconstruction. In addition, Antoine was a soldier, businessman, and editor. Antoine was born in New Orleans, the son of a veteran of the Battle of New Orleans, which followed the War of 1812. His mother was a native of the West Indies and the daughter of an African chief. - J.C. "sonny" Gilbert
Jess Carr "Sonny" Gilbert, II (born March 6, 1922), is a retired cotton farmer and a former Democratic member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from the town of Sicily Island in Catahoula Parish in northeastern Louisiana. Gilbert served three consecutive terms in the Louisiana State Senate from 1960-1972, having represented Franklin, Richland, and Catahoula parishes. - Sean Young
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Senator Tom Schedler Senator Tom Schedler is currently serving his third term in the Louisiana State Senate. He serves on a number of Senate committees including Health and Welfare, Legislative Audit Advisory Council (Chairman), Judiciary C, Retirement, Louisiana Commission on Mental Health (Chairman), Local and Municipal Affairs, and Children’s Cabinet (Governor’s Committee). Tom received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. - Jeremy Christopher Lee Babers
Jeremy was accepted to both Loyola University in New Orleans in Political Science and Tulane University’s School of Public Health. Upon entering college as a freshman, in August 2005, at Loyola University in New Orleans, He was forced to leave the city of New Orleans due to the infamous Hurricanes, Katrina and Rita. His will not shaken, Jeremy entered Centenary College for the semester and returned to Loyola in the spring semester of 2006. - Ash
Hey... I'm a really easy going small town girl living in the BR. I am currently a senior at LSU - Geaux Tigers!- where I am studying Animal Science with a concentration in Dairy Production, Agribusiness, and Poli Sci. and now... another minor in leadership! School is seeming more and more fun so I think that I am just going to stay in here for ever lol... I am involved in everything under the sun, and I am enjoying my college career to the max. - Matt
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