John Holmes Overton Sr.,was an attorney and Democratic US Representative and US Senator from Louisiana. His nephew,Thomas Overton Brooks,was also a US representative,from the Shreveport-based 4th district of Louisiana.
Murphy James Foster was the 31st Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana,an office he held for two terms from 1892 to 1900. Foster supported the Louisiana Constitution of 1898,which effectively disfranchised the black majority,who were mostly Republicans. This led to Louisiana becoming a one-party Democratic state for several generations and excluding African Americans from the political system.
Louis Elwood Jenkins Jr.,known as Woody Jenkins,is a newspaper editor in Baton Rouge and Central City,Louisiana,who served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 2000 and waged three unsuccessful races for the United States Senate in 1978,1980,and 1996.
The Paul M. Hebert Law Center,often styled "LSU Law",is a public law school in Baton Rouge,Louisiana. It is part of the Louisiana State University System and located on the main campus of Louisiana State University.
Cleo Fields is an American attorney and politician who represented Louisiana's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1997 and ran unsuccessfully for governor of Louisiana in 1995. He serves as a state senator for Louisiana's 14th State Senate district,a position he held twice before.
William Henson Moore III is an American attorney and businessman who is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives,having represented Louisiana's 6th congressional district,based about Baton Rouge,from 1975 to 1987. He was only the second Republican to have represented Louisiana in the House since Reconstruction,the first having been David C. Treen,then of Jefferson Parish.
Edwin Sidney Broussard Sr.,was a United States senator from Louisiana,who served for two terms from March 5,1921,to March 3,1933.
Anthony Claude Leach Jr.,known as Buddy Leach,was an American businessman,lawyer,military veteran,and Democratic politician from Louisiana. From 1979 to 1981,he served one term as a U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district. He also served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and as chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party.
Jared Young Sanders Sr. was an American journalist and attorney from Franklin,the seat of St. Mary Parish in south Louisiana,who served as his state's House Speaker (1900–1904),lieutenant governor (1904–1908),the 34th Governor (1908–1912),and U.S. representative (1917–1921). Near the end of his political career he was a part of the anti-Long faction within the Louisiana Democratic Party. Huey Pierce Long Jr.,in fact had once grappled with Sanders in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans.
George Kent Favrot was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
Newt Virgus Mills was a U.S. Representative in the first half of the 20th century for Louisiana's 5th congressional district,based in Monroe,Louisiana.
Patrick Thomson Caffery,Sr.,known as Pat Caffery,was an attorney from New Iberia,Louisiana,who formerly served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1964 to 1968 and then as a U.S. representative from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district from 1969 to 1973.
Bolivar Edwards Kemp Sr.,was an attorney and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 6th congressional district.
John Keller Griffith was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 6th congressional district.
Donald J. Cazayoux Jr. is an American lawyer and former politician. He served as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana from 2010 to 2013. From 2008 to 2009,he was a Democratic United States Representative from Louisiana's 6th congressional district.
Harry D. Wilson was a Democratic politician from Tangipahoa Parish,one of the Florida Parishes of southeastern Louisiana,who served from 1916 until his death as the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry. He was the father of the humorist and chef Justin E. Wilson.
Benjamin F. Holt, known as Ben F. Holt,was a Conservative Democrat from Pineville,Louisiana,who served a single term in the Louisiana House of Representatives for Rapides Parish from 1956 to 1960,during the administration of Governor Earl Kemp Long.
Richard Joseph Ward III,known as Rick Ward III,is an attorney and politician from Port Allen,Louisiana,who was a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate,representing district 17 until his resignation in June 2022.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana were held on November 3,2020,to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of Louisiana,one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections.
John Richard Rarick was an American lawyer,jurist,and World War II veteran who served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives,serving Louisiana's 6th congressional district from 1967 to 1975.
