Evangeline Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census,the population was 32,350. The parish seat is Ville Platte.
Ville Platte is the largest city in,and the parish seat of,Evangeline Parish,Louisiana,United States. The population was 6,303 at the 2020 census,down from 8,145 in 2000. The city's name is of French origin,roughly translating to "flat town",in reference to its relatively flat topography in contrast to the more hilly terrain north of the area.
Mary Loretta Landrieu is an American entrepreneur and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana from 1997 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,Landrieu served as the Louisiana State Treasurer from 1988 to 1996,and in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1980 to 1988.
Russell Billiu Long was an American Democratic politician and United States Senator from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987. Because of his seniority,he advanced to chairman of the Senate Finance Committee,serving for fifteen years,from 1966 to 1981,during the implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty programs. Long also served as Assistant Majority Leader from 1965 to 1969.
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.
Arthur Vidrine was a physician from Ville Platte,the seat of Evangeline Parish in south Louisiana,who was best known for having operated on Democratic U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long Jr.,after Long was shot on September 8,1935,in the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge,presumably by another young physician,Carl A. Weiss.
The Louisiana State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is a bicameral body,comprising the lower house,the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives,and the upper house,the Louisiana State Senate with 39 senators. Members of each house are elected from single-member districts of roughly equal populations.
The Louisiana State Police is the state police agency of Louisiana,which has jurisdiction anywhere in the state,headquartered in Baton Rouge. It falls under the authority of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety &Corrections. It is officially known in that organization as the Office of State Police.
Louisiana Highway 29 (LA 29) is a state highway located in southern Louisiana. It runs 54.09 miles (87.05 km) in a north–south direction from LA 13 north of Eunice to LA 114 west of Moreauville.
William Morgan Cassidy is an American physician and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Louisiana,a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he served in the Louisiana State Senate from 2006 to 2009 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015.
The Louisiana House of Representatives is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 representatives,each of whom represents approximately 42,500 people. Members serve four-year terms with a term limit of three terms. The House is one of the five state legislative lower houses that has a four-year term,as opposed to the near-universal two-year term.
Ladislas Lazaro was an American politician who served as a Democrat U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 7th congressional district from 1913 to 1927.
Theo Ashton Thompson was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 7th congressional district in the southwestern corner of the state.
RenéLouis De Rouen was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
The secretary of state of Louisiana is one of the elected constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Louisiana and serves as the head of the Louisiana Department of State. The position was created by Article 4,Section 7 of the Louisiana Constitution.
The 2002 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 5,2002. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu won re-election to a second term,although she did not earn 50% of the vote in the first round and was therefore forced into a runoff election with Republican Suzanne Haik Terrell,the Louisiana Elections Commissioner.
Larry Stephen Bankston,Sr.,is an attorney from Baton Rouge,Louisiana,who served from 1988 to 1996 as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from the southeastern District 15.
Donald Elliott "Doc" Hines was an American family physician in Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish,Louisiana,who was from 1993 to 2008 a member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 28. In his last term from 2004 to 2008,he was the Senate President under his political ally,Democratic former Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco.
Louisiana French is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties of the French language spoken traditionally by French Louisianians in colonial Lower Louisiana. As of today Louisiana French is primarily used in the state of Louisiana,specifically in its southern parishes.
James Joseph Donelon III is an American politician. He served as the Louisiana Insurance Commissioner from 2006 to 2024. He previously served as member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1981 to 2001.
