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John Sidney Garrett (1921–2005), former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Claiborne Parish; Jim Garrison (1921–1992), former New Orleans district attorney; later a state judge; Robert T. Garrity Jr. (born 1949), former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Jefferson Parish; Kevin Gates (born 1986), rapper
Who's Who in Louisiana and Mississippi (1918) Morgan obituary, New Orleans Times-Picayune , June 11, 1950 Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections , Gubernatorial primaries, 1944
Leander Henry Perez Sr. (July 16, 1891 – March 19, 1969) was an American Democratic Party political boss of Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes in southeastern Louisiana during the middle third of the 20th century.
Richard Guidry (October 18, 1949 – July 27, 2008) was a Cajun cultural activist and educator who worked to save the French language in Louisiana.. Born in Gueyden, Louisiana, on October 18, 1949, Guidry (who referred to himself as Le gros Cadien 'The Big Cajun') attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette), where he obtained a bachelor's ...
Davis homestead in Jackson Parish. James Houston Davis (September 11, 1899 – November 5, 2000) was an American singer, songwriter, and Democratic Party politician. After achieving fame for releasing both sacred and popular songs, Davis served as governor of Louisiana from 1944 to 1948 and again from 1960 to 1964.
A large medallion at Southeastern Louisiana University's Strawberry Stadium commemorates the life and career of Richard W. Leche. (The medallion can be viewed on the north exterior end of the east side of the campus football stadium.) Decades after Leche's conviction, Edwin Edwards was the second governor of Louisiana to be sentenced to prison.
Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville DeBlanc was born in 1821 in St. Martinville, Louisiana. [2] He was the great-great-grandson of Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, founder of Natchitoches, Louisiana. DeBlanc had French ancestors, whose descendants had been in Louisiana since the early colonial period.
Henry L. Fuqua was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on November 8, 1865, a son of James Overton Fuqua (1822–1875) and Jeannette Maria (Foules) Fuqua (1833–1900). [1] Fuqua's father was an attorney and veteran of the Mexican–American War who served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. [1]