Alexander Watzke, Junior ("King") was the youngest child of Alexander Watzke (Senior), a member of the Louisiana State Legislature, and a leader of New Orleans' German community, who died in 1914.
As the State of Louisiana owns the Superdome, any name change must be approved by the Louisiana State Legislature.
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(2) Though the NOW contributed to Bares' defeat, he was succeeded in the Louisiana State Senate by a pro-life Republican, J. Lomax Jordan.
V.J. Bella, state representative from St. Mary Parish from 1972–1980, was known as a legislative fiscal watchdog.
Term-limited in his House seat, Montgomery was a candidate for the District 37 seat in the Louisiana State Senate in the November 17, 2007, general election to fill the position being vacated by Republican Senator Max T. Malone of Shreveport, who was also term-limited.
Current Louisiana State Senator Ben Nevers, an electrical contractor from Bogalusa, is a former member of the Bogalusa City School Board.
Cecilia is the birthplace of several Louisiana political figures: state Representative and House Speaker Robert Joseph "Bob" Angelle (1896–1979), former Secretary of State of Louisiana and Lieutenant Governor Paul J. Hardy (born 1942), and former state Representative Jesse J. Guidry, who became the director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
George Henry Clinton (Class of c. 1885), member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature in first quarter of the 20th century; chemist and lawyer in St. Joseph, Louisiana
Then State Senator Harold Montgomery, State Representative, Parey Branton, Mayor Frank T. Norman, and other local officials presented Hennigan with a signed document of his accomplishments.
Louisiana Senate District 29, represented by the retiring Democrat Joe McPherson, also of Woodworth, was carved up into a minority district that meanders from south Rapides to Lincoln parishes.
Louisiana State Representative Andy Anders is from Clayton and Ferriday.
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.
Henry won his legislative seat on February 6, 1968, with a solid victory over his Republican opponent and personal friend, businessman Bob Reese of Jonesboro, later of Natchitoches Parish, where he ran unsuccessfully in 1972 for the state senate against the Democrat Paul L. Foshee.
Tom McVea, former state representative and former member of the East Feliciana Parish Police Jury
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
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.
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.
It is the home of former Louisiana State Senator Gaston Gerald, a farmer/rancher in East Baton Rouge and Washington parishes.
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.
He was unseated for the District 23 seat (parts of Lafayette and Acadia parishes) in the 1999 nonpartisan blanket primary by then State Representative Michael J. Michot, also a Republican.
Domengeaux did not seek reelection to Congress in 1948; instead he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in a race ultimately won by Russell B. Long, son of the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. He was succeeded in the House by the freshman State Senator Edwin Edward Willis of St. Martinville, the seat of St. Martin Parish.
However, he was surprisingly defeated for a ninth term in the House in the 1999 nonpartisan blanket primary by his fellow Democrat, Thomas Taylor Townsend, who is a nephew and law partner of former Democratic State Senator Donald G. Kelly of Natchitoches.
In 1969, he completed the dissertation entitled "Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905", a study of Marshall H. Twitchell, the Louisiana Republican state senator from Bienville and Red River parishes.
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.
Democrat Liz Swaine, a former broadcast journalist and Hightower's executive assistant, and Republican Vernon Adams and departing State Senator Max T. Malone were among nine contenders who were eliminated in the primary.
Shreveport attorney Jackson B. Davis, who served in the Louisiana State Senate from 1956–1980, was born near Lecompte.
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.
Among those who sought to succeed Malone were outgoing District 9 State Representative Billy Montgomery of Bossier City, who was term-limited himself as a state House member, and Montgomery's former House colleague, B.L. "Buddy" Shaw, a retired Shreveport educator and school board member.
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.
Touchstone was a first cousin of former Louisiana State Senator Danny Roy Moore, a civil engineer and land surveyor who resides in Arcadia, Louisiana.
John J. Doles (1895–1970), member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1952–1956 and president of the Louisiana Bankers Association from 1956-1957
State Representative Eddie J. Lambert and his wife, Judge Marilyn Montgomery Lambert, reside in Prairieville.
The coliseum is among projects credited to the late State Senator Sylvan Friedman of Natchitoches Parish.
Laborde ran with the slate headed by former New Orleans Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison, a ticket which included later state Senator Claude B. Duval of Houma for lieutenant governor and State Representative Jack M. Dyer of Baton Rouge for insurance commissioner.
Former State Representative and Louisiana Board of Regents member Vic Stelly taught and coached at Redemptorist during the early 1960s.
The Louisiana Regions Banks were established in Monroe (Ouachita Parish) by two former members of the Louisiana State Senate, Jamar Adcock and William R. "Billy" Boles, Sr..
Republican State Representative Mike Walsworth of West Monroe was elected to succeed Barham in the October 20, 2007 jungle primary.
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.
He succeeded his fellow Republican, Page Cortez of Lafayette, who instead became the District 23 state senator.
One of Drew's brothers, Richard Maxwell Drew, held several public offices in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, including that of state representative from 1848 until his death in 1850 at the age of twenty-eight.
Other prominent Morehouse Parish planters include the Barhams, brothers Edwards Barham and Robert J. Barham, who have also served in the Louisiana State Senate.
(Shady Wall (1922–1985) was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and a banker from West Monroe.
Louisiana State Senator Joe McPherson resides in Woodworth.