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3 unusual facts about Monroe, Louisiana


Blowing Rock, North Carolina

Ralph T. Troy, the mayor of Monroe, Louisiana, from 1972 to 1976, later relocated to North Carolina and resided in Blowing Rock.

Dorian Anneck

Dorian continued on with his professional career playing the next 3 seasons in the Western Professional Hockey League (WPHL) with the Monroe Moccasins based out of Monroe, Louisiana until the finish of the end of the 2000 season.

John E. Leonard

He studied law in Germany before he returned to the United States and was admitted to the bar in Louisiana in 1870 and commenced practice at Monroe, Louisiana.


2003 Colima earthquake

A seiche was observed on Lake Pontchartrain in the US state of Louisiana, and sediment was stirred up in several Louisiana wells.

36-bit

Prior to the introduction of computers, the state of the art in precision scientific and engineering calculation was the ten-digit, electrically powered, mechanical calculator, such as those manufactured by Friden, Marchant and Monroe.

5th Tony Awards

Performers: Barbara Ashley, Arthur Blake, Eugene Conley, Nancy Donovan, Joan Edwards, Dorothy Greener, Juanita Hall, Celeste Holm, Lois Hunt, Anne Jeffreys, Lucy Monroe, Herb Shriner.

Alexandre Deschapelles

His parents were Louis Gatien Le Breton Comte des Chapelles, born in New Orleans (Louisiana) in 1741, and Marie Françoise Geneviève d'Hémeric des Cartouzières from Béziers in the south of France.

Baton Rouge Community College

Along with former Senator John Breaux and Congresswoman Corrine Brown, former President Bill Clinton visited the college on February 8, 2008 to campaign for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the Louisiana 2008 Democratic primary,

Battle of Monroe's Crossroads

The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads (also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road, and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle) was a battle during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War in Cumberland County, North Carolina (now in Hoke County), on the grounds of the present day Fort Bragg Military Reservation.

Bennett Joshua Davlin

Davlin graduated from the Episcopal School of Acadiana in Cade, Louisiana and attributed his independent thinking to the amazing teachers at that institution.

Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act

More recently, in 2008, Hurricanes Gustav and Ike have left their mark on Louisiana's Coastal Wetlands.

Danziger Bridge shootings

Jim Letten, the U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, vowed his office would take "as much time and resources as necessary" to resolve the case.

Dean H. Kenyon

In 1987 in Edwards v. Aguillard the Supreme Court heard a case concerning a Louisiana Law that required "creation science" be taught on an equal basis with evolution in public schools.

Delaware Air National Guard

Over a dozen C-130 transport missions brought Civil Engineers from the 166 Civil Engineer Squadron (CES), communications specialists, ground and air medical personnel, fire fighters (166CES) and other skilled personnel who contributed to relief efforts in almost a dozen cities in Mississippi as well as Louisiana in the city of New Orleans, in areas north of Lake Pontchartrain such as the towns of Slidell and Hammond.

Foster Campbell

Ron Gomez, a member of the Louisiana House from Lafayette and at the time a Democrat prior to later switching parties, describes Campbell, when he was a state senator, as "always having some populist, usually anti-business legislation moving through the process. Persistent is his middle name.".

Georgia's 10th congressional district

Located in the eastern part of the state, the new district boundaries include the cities of Athens, Eatonton, Jackson, Milledgeville, Monroe, Watkinsville, and Winder.

Hasidic Judaism

However, the most rapidly growing community of American Hasidic Jews is located in Rockland County and the western Hudson Valley of New York State, including the communities of Monsey, Monroe, New Square, and Kiryas Joel.

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.

Hoosac Range

Notable peaks include Haystack Mountain and Mount Snow in Vermont and Spruce Mountain in Massachusetts, as well as the Berkshires high point, Crum Hill, in the town of Monroe, Massachusetts.

Jack Monroe

In December 2013, an e-petition launched by Monroe achieved over 100,000 signatures, leading to a parliamentary debate on Hunger in the United Kingdom.

James Patrick Major

In 1864, he fought at both Mansfield and Pleasant Hill in De Soto Parish and with General Hamilton P. Bee at Monett's Ferry in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.

James R. Domengeaux

In 1968 Domengeaux accepted an appointment from Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen, his fellow Democrat, to preside over a new state-charted organization called the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, commonly known by the acronym CODOFIL.

Jamie Mayo

Riser is supported by three sitting Republican congressmen from Louisiana; McAllister, a native of West Carroll Parish, carries the celebrity endorsement of Phil Robertson of the A&E Network reality show, Duck Dynasty, filmed in West Monroe.

Jonathan Arking

However, a chance encounter with Dick Kernan from the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts led him to take the News Director position at WTWR-FM in Monroe, Michigan.

King Kamehameha Golf Course Clubhouse

Wright designed the house for Arthur Miller's wife, Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), but Miller and Monroe divorced soon after and the project was abandoned.

KXOR

KXOR-FM, a radio station (106.3 FM) licensed to Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States

Louisiana Highway 110

Longville, at the height of the logging boom, was the site of one of the largest sawmills in Louisiana founded by Robert A. Long.

Melinda Schwegmann

Mrs. Schwegmann is a past president of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Michael Talbot

Michael Kirk Talbot (born 1969), member of Louisiana House of Representatives

Monroe Spaght

A named Chair in Chemistry was created in his honor at Stanford University; the incumbent Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry is Edward I. Solomon.

Monroe, North Carolina

The former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, talked to the governor to urge restraint, and the case became internationally embarrassing for the United States.

MV Freedom Star

As well as recovering the Space Shuttle SRB's Freedom Star has since 1998 been used to tow the Space Shuttle external fuel tanks from their assembly plant at Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Nolacon

Nolacon is the name given to two Worldcons held in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Paul Vernon Galloway

He retired in 1972, but then was called to serve as Bishop of the Houston Episcopal Area for three years, and for one additional year in Louisiana.

Randy Richardville

These include working for the WTWR-FM radio station, United Way of Monroe County, the Monroe Chamber of Commerce, American Legislative Exchange Council, Habitat for Humanity, a former board member of the Monroe YMCA, Monroe Rotary Club, former board member for the Karmanos Cancer Institution, and many more.

Redbreast sunfish

The species has been introduced as far west as Louisiana and West Texas.

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.

Robert D. Bullard

Over the 1980s Bullard widened his study of environmental racism to the whole American South, focusing on communities in Houston, in Dallas, Texas, Alsen, Louisiana, Institute, West Virginia, and Emelle, Alabama.

Robert Snyder

Robert C. Snyder (1919–2011), professor of English at Louisiana Tech University

Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr.

Sam enlisted in Col. Xavier Debray's regiment on September 18, 1861, and served until the end of the American Civil War on the coast of Texas and in Louisiana.

Sibley House

Hiram Sibley Homestead, Sibleyville, New York, listed on the NRHP in Monroe County, New York

Silver carp

By August 2009, they had become abundant in the Mississippi River watershed from Louisiana to South Dakota and Illinois, and had grown close to invading the Great Lakes via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Simon W. Tudor

Simon Woodson Tudor (November 5, 1887—May 10, 1956) was a prominent educator, businessman, church and civic leader, and philanthropist in the central Louisiana city of Pineville in the first half of the twentieth century.

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, April 2012

Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.

Sugartown, Louisiana

Pupils came to him from nine to ten parishes in Louisiana and from several counties in East Texas.

This Week in Louisiana Agriculture

Former Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation Public Relations Director, Regnal Wallace, created This Week in Louisiana Agriculture in 1981 and the show became the state's first television farm news program.

Tim Kirkman

Writer and director Tim Kirkman was born on November 2, 1966 in Monroe, North Carolina, the third child of a public school educator and a music teacher, and spent his childhood in nearby Wingate, North Carolina.

Tommy Wright

Thomas D. "Tommy" Wright (born 1956), former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Vaughan Johnson

Vaughan Monroe Johnson (born March 24, 1962 in Morehead City, North Carolina) is a retired American football linebacker.

Walt Leger III

Additionally, he served as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Judge Morey Leonard Sear, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Willie Stark

Willie Stark is an opera in three acts and nine scenes by Carlisle Floyd to his own libretto, after the novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, which in turn was inspired by the life of the Louisiana governor Huey Long.


see also

Hamid Drake

Hamid Drake was born in 1955 in Monroe, Louisiana, and his family moved to Evanston, Illinois when he was a child, just as an older musician from Monroe named Fred Anderson also moved to Evanston, with his family.

KNOE

KMLB, a radio station (540 AM) licensed to Monroe, Louisiana, United States, which held the call sign KNOE from 1944 to March 2008

KNOE-TV, a television station (channel 8 digital) licensed to Monroe, Louisiana, United States

KMVX, a radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to Monroe, Louisiana, United States, which held the call sign KNOE-FM from 1967 to March 2013