Webster Parish is a parish located in the northwestern section of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The seat of the parish is Minden.
Thomas Overton Brooks was a Democratic U.S. representative from the Shreveport-based Fourth Congressional District of northwestern Louisiana,having served for a quarter century beginning on January 3,1937.
Earl Kemp Long was an American politician and the 45th governor of Louisiana,serving three nonconsecutive terms. Long,known as "Uncle Earl",connected with voters through his folksy demeanor and colorful oratory. He departed from other Southern politicians of his time by promoting a progressive agenda,expanding school-lunch programs,teacher pay,public-works projects,and minority voting rights.
James Otis McCrery III is an American lawyer,politician and lobbyist who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1988 to 2009. He represented the 4th District of Louisiana,based in the north-western quadrant of the state.
John Bennett Johnston Jr. is a retired American attorney,politician,and later lobbyist. A member of the Democratic Party,Johnston represented Louisiana in the U.S. Senate from 1972 to 1997.
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.
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.
The 1964 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on March 3,1964. Democrat John McKeithen won a highly-competitive primary and dispatched Republican Charlton Lyons in the general election,though Lyons made a historically good showing for a Louisiana Republican up to this point.
Foster Lonnie Campbell Jr. is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party from the U.S. state of Louisiana. Since 2003,he has been a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. He served in the Louisiana State Senate from 1976 to 2002.
Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock,a conservative Democrat from Franklin in St. Mary Parish,was the only three-term lieutenant governor in 20th century Louisiana history. He served from 1960 to 1972. Aycock failed in his only bid for governor in the 1971 Democratic primary. Few lieutenant governors in Louisiana have been elected directly to the governorship;former Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette,is a prominent exception.
Bernhard Müller,known as Count de Leon,was a German Christian mystic and alchemist of uncertain origins.
Carlos Gustave Spaht,I,was a Louisiana judge best remembered for having lost the Democratic gubernatorial runoff election in January 1952 to fellow Judge Robert F. Kennon of Minden,the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. Spaht's unsuccessful running mate for lieutenant governor was future Governor John J. McKeithen of Columbia,the seat of Caldwell Parish in north Louisiana. McKeithen lost to then State Senator C.E. "Cap" Barham of Ruston,the seat of Lincoln Parish,also in north Louisiana. At the time,McKeithen was an outgoing member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
James Edwin Bolin Sr. was an American jurist and politician who served as a judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal. He was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Minden,the seat of government of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
Jefferson Rowe Thompson, known as Jeff R. Thompson,is a judge Louisiana's Second Circuit Court of Appeal,previously served as a district judge for the 26th Judicial District Court for Bossier and Webster parishes,who is a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 8,a position which he held from January 2012 to January 2015.
The Shreveport Journal was an American newspaper originally published by H. P. Benton in Shreveport and Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana. In operation from at least 1897,it ceased publication in 1991.
Gilbert Lynel "Gil" Dozier,was an attorney,businessman,farmer,and rancher who served from 1976 to 1980 as the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry. A Democrat,Dozier's political career ended with felony convictions and imprisonment for nearly four years. Most of his adult life was spent in and about Baton Rouge,Louisiana.
Wellborn Jack,Sr.,was an attorney from Shreveport,Louisiana,who was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Caddo Parish serving from 1940 to 1964. He finished in sixth place for five at-large seats in the general election held on March 3,1964.
Lonnie Odell Aulds was a businessman from Shreveport,Louisiana,who was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Shreveport in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana. He served a single term from 1968 until 1972.
Jeffrey Stephen Cox,known as Jeff Cox is a judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit,based in Shreveport,Louisiana.
