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5 unusual facts about Louisiana House of Representatives

Joe Cooper

Joe Henry Cooper (1918–1980), American businessman and member of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Louisiana Highway 33

The bridge over LA 33 as it crosses Lake D'Arbonne is named for James Peyton Smith, the state representative from Union and Morehouse parishes from 1964 to 1972.

Pat Swilling

Patrick Travis Swilling (born October 25, 1964) is a former American football linebacker in the NFL for the New Orleans Saints, Detroit Lions, and Oakland Raiders, and a former delegate in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Richard Guidry

:For the Louisiana former state representative from Lafourche Parish, see Dick Guidry.

Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge

In 1932, Mason Spencer, a state representative from Tallulah, armed with a gun and a hunting permit, shot a rare male Ivory-billed Woodpecker on a large tract of swamp forest land owned by the Singer Sewing Company.

Charles Gayarré

In 1830 he was elected a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives; in 1831 was appointed deputy attorney general of his state; in 1833 he became presiding judge of the city court of New Orleans; and in 1834 he was elected as a Jackson Democrat to the United States Senate.

Clif Richardson

Clifton Russell Richardson (born 1943), known as Clif Richardson, is a retired businessman from Greenwell Springs, Louisiana, and a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 65 in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Farmerville, Louisiana

William C. Feazel, interim U.S. Senator in 1948; member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Ouachita Parish from 1932–1936; father-in-law of former state Representative Shady R. Wall of West Monroe

Franklinton, Louisiana

A Franklinton physician, Jerry Thomas, represented Washington Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1988–1999 and then served from 1999-2004 in the District 12 seat in the state senate, having succeeded Phil Short of Covington, who resigned.

Fred L. Lowery

On the occasion of Lowery's announcement of retirement, Louisiana State Representative Jeff R. Thompson of Bossier City introduced a unanimously-approved House resolution praising Lowery for his 30-year ministry at First Baptist Bossier.

Grambling, Louisiana

Pinkie C. Wilkerson, African American member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lincoln, Bienville, and Union parishes from 1992 until her death in a six-vehicle accident in Bossier City in 2000.

Henry L. Fuqua

Fuqua defeated both Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Lieutenant Governor (and former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives) Hewitt Leonidas Bouanchaud in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1924 to succeed the term-limited John M. Parker.

Iberville Parish, Louisiana

Iberville Parish is represented in the Louisiana State Senate by the attorney Robert M. Marionneaux, a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, who has served in the Senate since 2000.

Jimmy Hayes

Hayes defeated five opponents, including fellow Democrats Margaret Lowenthal of Lake Charles and James David Cain of Dry Creek in Beauregard Parish, both of whom were state representatives, and Republican David Thibodaux of Lafayette.

Joachim O. Fernández

He was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1924 to 1928 and the State Senate from 1928 to 1930 at the time of the administration of Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley.

Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns

Ron Gomez did the radio play-by-play for Cajuns football and basketball from 1961–1979, when he was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Melinda Schwegmann

In 1997, she won a special election to the Louisiana State House of Representatives, District 98, from the Orleans Parish Lakefront, a predominantly African American area, previously represented for fifteen years by a conservative Republican Garey Forster.

Miss Louisiana USA

Her father was Louisiana State Representative Thomas "Bud" Brady.

Morganza High School

John B. Fournet, later a supporter of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, lieutenant governor, and associate and Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, was the principal of Morganza High School in the 1916-1917 academic year.

Robert Kostelka

Newly-converted Republican State Representative James R. Fannin of Jonesboro, who is term-limited in the House, is considered a leading prospect to seek Kostelka's seat.

Roy R. Theriot

The couple had three children: Barbara Ellen Theriot (born 1949), Roy R. Theriot, Jr. (born 1952), and Sam H. Theriot, a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1979 to 1996 and thereafter the Vermilion Parish Clerk of Court for a single term from 1996 to 2000.

Stonewall, Louisiana

Richard Burford is the Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 7, which includes DeSoto Parish and the adjacent southern portion of Caddo Parish.

Walt Leger III

Walter “Walt” J. Leger III (surname pronounced leh-ZHAY) is Speaker Pro Tempore of the Louisiana House of Representatives and the representative for New Orleans’ District 91, which includes Central City, Uptown, the Lower Garden District, the Irish Channel, parts of Broadmoor, Gert Town, and Hollygrove.