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unusual facts about Governor of Louisiana



Allison Kolb

Kolb was overwhelmed in the general election by Democrat Mary Evelyn Dickerson Parker, an Allen Parish native and an operative from the administrations of both former Governors Earl Kemp Long and John J. McKeithen.

B. Dexter Ryland

Rebel Ryland had practiced law for twenty-five years, much of that time in the firm of the late Governor John McKeithen.

Bubby Lyons

Victory went instead to another Democrat, later lieutenant governor and then Governor Kathleen Blanco, who defeated a Republican, Kernan "Skip" Hand in the general election for the position held in conjunction with the 1988 U.S. presidential contest.

Central City, Louisiana

On January 9, 2007, Governor Kathleen Blanco appointed the interim members of the new Central Community School Board.

Conference of Governors

Among the attendees was Governor Newton C. Blanchard of Louisiana, whose term technically ended the day before the conference began.

Ellen Bryan Moore

Her father was the warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary until he was dismissed in a dispute with then Governor Huey P. Long, Jr. Moore spent her early years growing up at the manager's residence when the penitentiary was in Baton Rouge, instead of the present site at rural Angola in West Feliciana Parish near St. Francisville.

Floyd D. Culbertson, Jr.

The position was decided in a runoff in which Arthur M. Wallace defeated Minden attorney Graydon K. Kitchens, Sr., a native of Stamps, Arkansas, who was reared in La Salle Parish and was a former law partner of future Governor Robert F. Kennon and later a Kennon appointee to the Louisiana Tax Commission.

Frank Fulco

The Hudson and O'Hearn victories were attributed that year in part to the coattails of GOP gubernatorial nominee Charlton Lyons of Shreveport.

Fritz Windhorst

Because it provided no exceptions for impregnations stemming from rape and incest, the measure was vetoed by Governor Buddy Roemer, a Democrat, who switched parties the following year.

George Washington Donaghey

The Art Deco-style monument contains intricate carvings and includes references to transportation in 1831 and 1931 and mentions Governor Huey P. Long, Jr., whose educational program Donaghey admired.

James Lee Witt

On September 3, 2005, he was hired by Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco to oversee reconstruction efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Joel Robideaux

Robideaux was first elected to the House in a special election held in the spring of 2004 to succeed Democrat Jerry Luke LeBlanc, who resigned to join the incoming administration of Governor Kathleen Blanco of Lafayette.

John Leonard Riddell

Active in local and state politics, he seems to have claimed to have been elected Governor of Louisiana in November, 1863 and sworn in by a Justice of the Peace in January, 1864.

Kirt Bennett

At the time of his death, he was also serving as the treasurer of the Port of Greater Baton Rouge board of commissioners, under appointment from Republican Governor Bobby Jindal.

KWKH

The broadcaster initially enjoyed the patronage of Governor Huey P. Long, Jr., whose son, Russell B. Long, was born in 1918 in Shreveport.

Marcus R. Clark

As the Division E state Fourth Judicial District Court judge in Ouachita Parish, Clark defeated fellow Republican attorney Jimmy Faircloth, Jr., of Pineville, a former aide to Governor Bobby Jindal, for a seat on the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Melvin Rambin

In 1999, Rambin was appointed by Republican Governor Murphy J. Foster, Jr., as a regent of the Louisiana Board of Regents of Higher Education.

Morey Leonard Sear

Roemer, the father of future Governor Buddy Roemer and Marcello, a New Orleans crime figure, were convicted and imprisoned for conspiracy, but Young, a former aide to Governor John J. McKeithen and current staffer to then Lieutenant Governor Robert "Bobby" Freeman, was acquitted of all charges.

New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad

From the establishment of the company in 1852 until 1862, Benjamin Flanders (later Reconstruction Governor of Louisiana and Mayor of New Orleans) was the Secretary and Treasurer of the line.

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

With a U.S. Department of Defense contract and funding from the Louisiana Public Facilities Authority, Governor Buddy Roemer proclaimed the official opening of the Center in 1988.

Ralph Perlman

In 1964, Governor John McKeithen appointed Perlman as the executive assistant to the commissioner of administration, W. W. McDougall.

Raymond H. Fleming

Seen as an ally of the political organization run by Senator Huey Long and Governor O.K. Allen, in 1934 Fleming deployed National Guardsmen to the offices of election officials in New Orleans when Allen declared martial law during a disputed election between the Long-Allen group and a group headed by Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley.

Rhipicephalus microplus

In Louisiana, Governor Ruffin Pleasant in 1917 signed legislation sponsored by freshman State Senator Norris C. Williamson of East Carroll Parish to authorize state funding to eradicate the cattle tick.

Risley C. Triche

Triche was originally a segregationist during the administration of Governor Jimmie Davis.

Roy R. Theriot

Theriot became comptroller in the second administration of Governor Jimmie Davis and served throughout the tenure of John McKeithen and the first year of Edwin Washington Edwards' first term.

Share Our Wealth

Share The Wealth was a movement begun in February 1934, during the Great Depression, by Huey Long, a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana.

Shoup Voting Machine Corporation

In 1972, C. H. "Sammy" Downs, a former Louisiana state senator serving as his state's public works director in the admininistration of Governor John McKeithen, resigned when he was indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery in connection with procuring state business for the Shoup company.

Stephen J. Windhorst

In the nonpartisan blanket primary, also known as the jungle primary, held on November 16, 1991, Windhorst upset and unseated fellow Republican Representative Terry W. Gee, who had served since 1980, beginning with the gubernatorial term of Governor David C. Treen, then of Jefferson Parish.

Value-added modeling

Despite opposition from the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, the bill passed the Louisiana State Senate on May 26, 2010, and was immediately signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal.

Vic Stelly

In 2003, as his legislative career wound down, Stelly was "roasted" by the Moss Bluff Civic Club and Veterans of Foreign Wars as a fund raiser to install a monument to former Governor Sam Houston Jones at the Jones State Park in Moss Bluff.

Vivian, Louisiana

H. Claude DeBeaux, Jr. (1932-2013), native of Marshall, Texas, Vivian and Shreveport resident, former member of the Caddo Parish School Board, established Claude DeBeaux Ford dealership in Vivian, director of Citizens Bank and Trust Company, vice president of Holiday in Dixie festival in Shreveport, member of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission in the administration of Governor Dave Treen.

William Bruce Mumford

After he was hanged, on June 18, Confederate Governor of Louisiana Thomas Overton Moore issued a statement declaring Mumford a hero and a model.

William Hawthorn Lynch

At The Times, Lynch covered the 1959 saga of then Governor Earl Kemp Long, the relationship with stripper Blaze Starr, and Long's commitment to the state mental hospital in Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish.


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History of lobbying in the United States

For example, Charles T. Howard of the Louisiana State Lottery Company actively lobbied state legislators and the governor of Louisiana for the purpose of getting a license to sell lottery tickets.

Jacques Telesphore Roman

Jacques' brother, Andre was serving his first term as Governor of Louisiana, and his sister Josephine, was married to Francois Gabriel "Valcour" Aime, whose wealth, interest in the sugar industry and opulent life style had won him the title of "Sugar King Of Louisiana".

James H. Davis

Jimmie Davis (James Houston Davis, 1899–2000), American singer and governor of Louisiana

Oliver Pollock

O'Reilly was later made the Governor of Louisiana by the King of Spain.