- 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. - Edwin Edwards
Edwin Washington Edwards served as the Democratic governor of Louisiana for four terms (1972–1980, 1984–1988, and 1992 –1996), twice as many terms as any other Louisiana governor ever served. He was also Louisiana's first Catholic governor in the twentieth century and perhaps with the exception of Huey P. Long, was Louisiana's most popular governor. A colorful, powerful and legendary figure in Louisiana politics, Edwards was long dogged by charges of corruption. - 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. - Jimmie Davis
James Houston Davis, better known as Jimmie Davis, (September 11, 1899 - November 5, 2000) was a noted singer of both sacred and popular songs who served two nonconsecutive terms as a Democratic governor of Louisiana (1944-1948 and 1960-1964). Davis was considered to have been part of the anti-Long faction though Governor Earl Kemp Long endorsed him in the pivotal 1960 runoff election. - Russell B. Long
Russell Billiu Long was an American politician who served in the United States Senate as a Democrat from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987. Long was born in Shreveport, and received bachelor's and law degrees from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was a naval officer during World War II. Long was the son of the flamboyant Louisiana Governor and Senator Huey P. Long and Rose McConnell Long, … - John Breaux
John Berlinger Breaux (last name pronounced BRO) was a United States senator from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the U.S. House from 1972 to 1987. He was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party. Breaux was a member of the New Democrat Coalition. - 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, … - John McKeithen
John Julian McKeithen (May 28, 1918 -- June 4, 1999), a Democrat from the tiny town of Columbia, the seat of Caldwell Parish in northeastern Louisiana, was the first governor of his state to serve two consecutive terms. His tenure ran from 1964-1972. He was also the governor who pushed for the construction of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. - James Carville
James Carville (born October 25, 1944), is an American political consultant, commentator, media personality and pundit. Known as the "Ragin' Cajun", Carville gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful 1992 presidential campaign of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. Carville was the co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" until its final broadcast in June 2005. Since its cancellation, he has appeared on CNN's new program, … - 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. - Robert F. Kennon
Robert Floyd "Bob" Kennon (August 12, 1902 - January 11, 1988) was a "good-government" reform Democratic governor of the state of Louisiana, who served from 1952-1956. He failed to win a second nonconsecutive term in the 1963 Democratic primary. After the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision of May 17, 1954, Governor Kennon ordered the enforcement of laws relating to segregation. - Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon Johnson. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action. He also served as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945–1949. - 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, … - Jim McCrery
James Otis "Jim" McCrery, III, (born September 18 1949, in Shreveport, Louisiana), is an American politician and has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1988; he represents the 4th District of Louisiana (map). McCrery is the ranking member on the House Ways and Means Committee. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Lee Fletcher
Dewey Lee Fletcher (born ca. 1966) is a small business owner and a radio talk show host in Monroe, who was defeated by 974 votes in a 2002 race for the United States House of Representatives from the Fifth Congressional District in northeast Louisiana. A Republican, Fletcher lost to the Democrat Rodney Alexander of Quitman in Jackson Parish. Alexander prevailed with 86,718 votes to Fletcher's 85,744. - Henson Moore
William Henson Moore, III (born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on October 4, 1939), is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, having represented the Baton Rouge-based Sixth Congressional District, from 1975-1987. He is only the second Republican to have represented Louisiana in the House since Reconstruction, the first having been David C. Treen, then of Jefferson Parish. - 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, … - 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). - R. Harmon Drew Sr.
Richard Harmon Drew, Sr. (February 5, 1917 - December 18, 1995) was a fourth generation judge and a former Democratic state representative who was descended from pioneer families of Webster Parish in north Louisiana. The first Drew in the area, Newitt Drew, a Welshman who was born in Virginia in 1772, established a grist mill on Dorcheat Bayou in the early 1800s before a town yet existed. - 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, … - John Cooksey
John Charles Cooksey (born August 20, 1941) is an ophthalmologist from Monroe who was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana from 1997 to 2003. Cooksey was born in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. He graduated from La Salle High School (La Salle Parish) in Olla, where his father operated a sawmill. He attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and received his M.D. degree in 1966. - 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. - 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. - Overton Brooks
Thomas Overton Brooks (December 21, 1897 -- September 16, 1961) was a Democratic U.S. representative from the Shreveport-based Fourth Congressional District of northwest Louisiana, having served for a quarter century beginning in 1937. Brooks was a nephew of U.S. Senator John Holmes Overton and chaired the House Science and Astronautics Committee at the time of his death. Brooks succeeded John Nicholas Sandlin, Sr., a fellow Democrat from Minden, the seat of Webster Parish. - Chris John
Christopher Charles "Chris" John (born January 5 1960), American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2005, representing the Seventh District of Louisiana (the southwestern or "Cajun" part of the state). John was born in Crowley, Louisiana, the seat of Acadia Parish (county), one of six children. He was educated at Notre Dame Catholic High School and Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. - Richard Baker
Richard Hugh Baker (born May 22 1948), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1987, representing the 6th District of Louisiana (map). The district is based in the state capital, Baton Rouge, and includes much of that city's metropolitan area. The son of a Methodist Minister, he was born in New Orleans and graduated from Louisiana State University. - 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. - Jay Dardenne
Jay Dardenne was sworn in as Secretary of State of Louisiana in November, 2006, filling the remaining year on an unexpired term and ending a 15-year career in the State Senate. He was reelected in the 2007 primary with 64% of the vote, receiving the largest number of votes cast for any candidate in the statewide election. Secretary Dardenne has championed increased early voting opportunities and helped win legislative approval of a pay raise for poll commissioners. - 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. - John H. Overton
John Holmes Overton (September 17, 1875 - May 14, 1948) was an attorney and Democratic United States representative and U.S. senator from Louisiana. His nephew, Overton Brooks, was also a congressman -- from the Shreveport-based Fourth District of Louisiana. Born in Marksville, the seat of Avoyelles Parish, Overton was the youngest son of Judge Thomas Overton and the former Laura Waddill. He graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1895, … - 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, … - Mary Evelyn Parker
Mary Evelyn Dickerson Parker (born November 8, 1920) was the Democratic state treasurer of Louisiana from 1968-1987. Prior to her tenure as treasurer, she held several appointed positions in state government. She was an integral part of the Long faction and a close friend and strategist for both Governor Earl Kemp Long (1895-1960) and his wife, Blanche Revere Long (1902-1998). - Jack P.F. Gremillion
Jack Paul Faustin Gremillion, Sr., (June 15, 1914 -- March 2, 2001) was the Democratic attorney general of Louisiana from 1956-1972. He was a member of the Earl Kemp Long political faction. Though he opposed school desegregation, he was a party loyalist and was an elector for the John F. Kennedy--Lyndon B. Johnson presidential ticket in 1960. Kennedy and Johnson easily won Louisiana's ten electoral votes that year. - 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. - 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, … - 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. - A. Leonard Allen
Asa Leonard Allen was an educator, attorney, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana. He served eight terms as a Democrat from 1937-1953, having represented the now defunct Eighth Congressional District, centered about Alexandria. Allen was born in a log cabin near Winnfield, the seat of Winn Parish, to Asa L. Allen and the former Sophronia Perkins. He was a younger brother of Governor Oscar Kelly Allen.
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