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Historical marker at Mansfield State Historic Site referring to role of First Baptist Church during the battle of Mansfield. Mansfield is a small city in, and the parish seat of, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, United States. [3] Mansfield is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan statistical area, with a 2020 population of 4,714.
The 4th congressional district was created in 1843, the first new district in the state in 20 years. It was gained after the 1840 U.S. census.. For most of the next 150 years, the 4th was centered on Shreveport and northwestern Louisiana.
Since at least the 1840s, the 1st congressional district has been anchored in and around most of the Greater New Orleans area south of Lake Pontchartrain, with the district being anchored in most of the city itself, as well as the adjoining parishes of St. Bernard and Plaquemines, during most of the tenure of F. Edward Hébert, a former journalist for The Times-Picayune who represented the ...
Kenny Ray Cox (born 1957), Louisiana state representative and former United States Army officer Milton Joseph Cunningham (1842–1916), Natchitoches and New Orleans lawyer, state senator from Natchitoches and DeSoto parishes from 1880 to 1884; state attorney general for three nonconsecutive terms ending in 1900, born in what became DeSoto Parish
Amos Kent assisted in laying out the town. The Postmaster named the town in honor of Kent on February 29, 1888. [4]On August 30, 2012, damage was caused by pressure on the 2,300 foot Percy Quin dam, a dam on the Tangipahoa River north of Kentwood, as a result of Hurricane Isaac, led to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal calling for a mandatory evacuation of the town due to fears of large-scale ...
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In an exclusive interview with The Bee, they and developer Lance-Kashian & Co. confirmed that it’s finally official: In-N-Out is coming to Fancher Creek Town Center at Clovis and Tulare avenues.
Paincourtville was the birthplace of former Louisiana State Representatives Samuel A. LeBlanc I LeBlanc represented Assumption Parish from 1912 to 1916 and was thereafter a state court judge. Former State Senator J. E. Jumonville Sr. was born in Paincourtville in 1919 but later lived in Pointe Coupee Parish .