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Breaux Bridge (/ ˈbroʊˈbrɪdʒ /; [2] French: Pont-Breaux; [3][4] Cajun French: Pont- (de)-Breaux pronounced [pɔ̃ndbʁo] [2]) is a small city in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 8,139 as of the 2010 census, up from 7,281 in 2000. By 2020, its population was 7,513. It is part of the Lafayette metropolitan ...
Pages in category "People from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
4. Education. University of Louisiana, Lafayette (BA) Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (JD) John Berlinger Breaux (/ ˈbroʊ /; born March 1, 1944) is an American lobbyist, attorney, and retired politician from Louisiana. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987 and as a United States Senator from 1987 to 2005. [1]
Great Bridge is a community located in the independent city of Chesapeake in the U.S. state of Virginia. Its name is derived from the American Revolutionary War Battle of Great Bridge , which took place on December 9, 1775, and resulted in the final removal of British government from the Colony and Dominion of Virginia .
John Walter Ripley (June 29, 1939 – October 28, 2008) was a decorated United States Marine Corps Colonel who received the Navy Cross for his actions in combat during the Vietnam War. On Easter morning 1972, Captain Ripley repeatedly exposed himself to intense enemy fire over a three-hour period as he prepared to blow up an essential bridge in ...
Hampton (/ ˈhæmptən /) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The population was 137,148 as of the 2020 census, making it the seventh-most populous city in Virginia. [7] Hampton is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, the 37th-largest in the United States, with a total population of 1,799,674 ...
Bettye Wagner. Ted Jemison. Theodore Judson Jemison (August 1, 1918 – November 15, 2013), better known as T. J. Jemison, was the president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. from 1982 to 1994. It is the largest African-American religious organization. He oversaw the construction of the Baptist World Center in Nashville, Tennessee ...
October 4, 1984. Designated VLR. August 21, 1984 [2] Historic Little England (previously known as the Victoria Boulevard Historic District) is a national historic district located at Hampton, Virginia. The district encompasses 87 contributing buildings in a streetcar suburb originally laid out in 1888. The primarily residential district ...