Paul Prudhomme

Paul Prudhomme

male, 69 years old
from New Orleans, from Louisiana, New Orleans cuisine, Cajun cuisine, American, Cajun…Opelousas, fromOpelousas, Louisiana, Louisiana cuisine
Paul Prudhomme is an American chef famous for his Cajun cuisine. The youngest of thirteen children, Prudhomme was reared on a farm near Opelousas,...
Rod Bernard

Rod Bernard

male, 69 years old
From Lafayette, Louisiana, fromOpelousas, Louisiana, creole, Louisiana musician, American, Songwriter…from Louisiana, Louisiana Creole
In the 1950s and early 1960s singer and songwriter Rod Bernard (born 1940) helped to pioneer the musical genre known as "swamp pop", which combined...

Paul B. Freeland

male, deceased (1976)
Presbyterian, Davidson College, from Louisiana, writer, historian, Refugee…fromOpelousas, Louisiana, Opelousas, From Crowley, Louisiana
Paul Butterfield Freeland (September 15, 1904 - November 1, 1976) was a Presbyterian minister, historian, philanthropist, and genealogist from...

Albert Tate Jr.

male, deceased (1986)
American military personnel of World War II, Yale Law School Alumni, baton rouge, Louisiana politician, Louisiana State University, World War II…from Louisiana, Louisiana state court judge, Louisiana Supreme Court, fromOpelousas, Louisiana, Opelousas
Albert Tate, Jr. (September 23, 1920 -- March 27, 1986), was a long-serving Louisiana judge known for his leadership of the legal profession. A...

Benjamin Pavy

male, deceased (1943)
Felix Octave Pavy, Sr., St. Landry Parish, Assassin, from Louisiana, democratic party, Cajun…Louisiana politician, Louisiana lawyer, Louisiana State Legislature, Louisiana state court judge, Louisiana House of Representatives
Benjamin Henry Pavy (October 16, 1874 -- April 1943) was a state district judge in St. Landry and Evangeline parishes, Louisiana, who was...
Carl A. Brasseaux

Carl A. Brasseaux

male
Carl Anthony Brasseaux, fromOpelousas, Louisiana, From Lafayette, Louisiana, University of Louisiana at Lafayette faculty, American, Academic…University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni, from Louisiana
Carl Anthony Brasseaux (born August 19, 1951) is a historian of French Colonial North America, and particularly of Louisiana and the Cajun people....

Dud Lastrapes

male
Louisiana State Republican chairmen, School Board Member, school board, Businessman, American, Mayor…From Lafayette, Louisiana, Louisiana State Senate candidate, fromOpelousas, Louisiana, Mayor of places in Louisiana, University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni
William Dudley "Dud" Lastrapes, Jr. (born 1929), is a Lafayette, Louisiana, businessman, who was the first Republican since Reconstruction to have...

Joseph Willis

male
cherokee, fromOpelousas, Louisiana, American South, St. Landry Parish, freedman, death…from South Carolina, Baptist from the United States, from Louisiana, Opelousas
Joseph Willis was an early 19th century minister who has been described by some historians as the "father of the Baptist religion in Louisiana"....

Thomas Clark Nicholls

male, deceased (1847)
Episcopal, from Louisiana, British, Episcopalian, baton rouge, lawyer…Louisiana politician, Louisiana lawyer, Louisiana state court judge, fromOpelousas, Louisiana, Opelousas
Thomas Clark Nicholls (1790-1847) was a Louisiana jurist and temperance crusader in the 1830s and 1840s. Nicholls died almost three decades before...
Martin Back

Martin Back

male, 31 years old (Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States)
single, athletic, slim, college graduate, MySpace, college of santa fe…From Opelousas Louisiana, fromOpelousas, Louisiana
occult magick, video performance, stuttering soundscapes, trying to find the perfect brutally awesome hat, stovepipes, balloon knots.