Breaux Bridge 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 statistical area.
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 Berlinger Breaux is an American lobbyist,attorney,and retired politician who was a member of the United States Senate from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987. He was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party. Breaux was a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
Richard Hugh Baker is an American politician and lobbyist. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2008,representing the 6th District of Louisiana as a Republican.
Christopher Charles John is an American politician and lobbyist who from 1997 to 2005 served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 7th congressional district,since disbanded and merged into the 3rd district.
James Alison Hayes is an American politician and lawyer. He is a Republican from Louisiana.
Louis Elwood Jenkins Jr.,known as Woody Jenkins,is a newspaper editor in Baton Rouge and Central City,Louisiana,who served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 2000 and waged three unsuccessful races for the United States Senate in 1978,1980,and 1996.
United States gubernatorial elections were held in October and November 2007 in three states. The final results were a net change of zero among the parties. Republicans picked up the open seat in Louisiana and reelected incumbent Haley Barbour in Mississippi,while Democrats defeated Republican incumbent Ernie Fletcher in Kentucky.
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 2007 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on October 20. The filing deadline for candidates was September 6. On the day of the election,all 12 candidates competed in an open jungle primary. Bobby Jindal won the election with 54%. This was the first time since 1967 in which the winner of a Louisiana gubernatorial election was of the same party as the incumbent president.
Anthony Claude Leach Jr.,known as Buddy Leach,was an American businessman,lawyer,military veteran,and Democratic politician from Louisiana. From 1979 to 1981,he served one term as a U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district. He also served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and as chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party.
George Luke Smith was from 1873 to 1875 a one-term U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district,which encompasses the state's third largest city,Shreveport,Louisiana. He previously served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
The 2004 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 2,2004. Incumbent Democratic Senator John Breaux decided to retire after three terms in office. Republican Representative David Vitter won the open seat with 51% of the primary vote and avoided a runoff,which would be scheduled on December 4,becoming the first Louisiana Republican elected to the U.S. Senate since 1876,and the first ever to be popularly elected.
Troy Anthony Carter is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district since 2021. He was previously a member of the Louisiana State Senate for the 7th district. A member of the Democratic Party,Carter also previously served on the New Orleans City Council and as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He is currently the only Democrat in Louisiana's congressional delegation.
Michael Huval,also known as Mike "Pete" Huval,is an American politician and insurance agent from Breaux Bridge,Louisiana,currently serving as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 46 in St. Martin Parish.
Carl Buell Close,Sr.,was a Democratic politician from Alexandria,Louisiana,who served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1944 to 1947,when he stepped down to become the mayor of his adopted city of Alexandria,a post he held until 1953.
William Franklin Spooner,known as Frank Spooner,is an oil and natural gas producer in Monroe in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana,who has been active since the early 1970s in his state's Republican Party. In the fall of 1976,Spooner waged a strong but losing race for the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 5th congressional district in a bid to succeed incumbent Otto Passman,who had been unseated in the Democratic primary by farmer/businessman Jerry Huckaby,then from Ringgold in Bienville Parish. Therefore,instead of facing Passman,as he had expected,Spooner competed with Huckaby for a relatively rare open seat in the state's congressional delegation.
Garret Neal Graves is an American politician serving as the United States representative from Louisiana's 6th congressional district since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Robert Max Ross was a Republican activist and a candidate for numerous statewide and local offices who resided in Mangham in northeastern Louisiana. He was among the earliest advocates for the Republican political movement at a time when no GOP candidate had been elected statewide in more than a century. He ran as one of two candidates in the Republican primaries for governor in 1972 and Louisiana's 5th congressional district seat in 1974. After Louisiana adopted the jungle primary system,Ross qualified again for governor in 1983 and also the United States Senate in 1984. He additionally ran for the Louisiana State Senate as well as mayor of Mangham during other election years.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana were held on November 8,2022,to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of Louisiana,one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
