Concordia Parish borders the Mississippi River in eastern central Louisiana. As of the 2010 census,the population was 20,822. The parish seat is Vidalia. The parish was formed in 1807.
Pineville is a city in Rapides Parish,Louisiana,United States. It is located across the Red River from the larger Alexandria. Pineville is hence part of the Alexandria Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,555 at the 2010 census. It had been 13,829 in 2000;population hence grew by 5 percent over the preceding decade.
Northwestern State University of Louisiana (NSU) is a public university primarily situated in Natchitoches,Louisiana,with a nursing campus in Shreveport and general campuses in Leesville/Fort Polk and Alexandria. It is a part of the University of Louisiana System.
The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3,1836,until May 29,1848,when an eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin. Belmont was initially chosen as the capital of the territory. In 1837,the territorial legislature met in Burlington,just north of the Skunk River on the Mississippi,which became part of the Iowa Territory in 1838. In that year,1838,the territorial capital of Wisconsin was moved to Madison.
James Allison Hayes is an American politician and lawyer. He is a Republican from Louisiana.
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal is an American politician who served as the 55th Governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016. Jindal previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
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.
Stephen Joseph Scalise is an American politician who is the United States House of Representatives minority whip and representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district,serving since 2008. The district includes most of New Orleans's suburbs,such as Metarie,Kenner,and Slidell,as well as a portion of New Orleans itself. He is a member of the Republican Party and was the chair of the conservative House Republican Study Committee.
Cleveland Dear,Sr.,was a two-term U.S. representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district,since disbanded,a district attorney,a state court judge,and a candidate in 1936 for governor of Louisiana. A Democrat from Alexandria,Louisiana,he was allied with the anti-Long political faction.
Henry Garland Dupré was from 1910 to 1924 a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district,based about New Orleans,Louisiana.
Voters in Louisiana's 1st congressional district voting in a special election on May 3,2008,elected Steve Scalise as a new member of the United States House of Representatives,replacing Representative Bobby Jindal who resigned on January 14,2008,to become Governor of Louisiana.
Fred Henry Mills,Jr.,is an American pharmacist,banker,and politician from Parks,Louisiana currently serving as a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate,having won a special election on January 22,2011. Mills had previously represented District 46 in the Louisiana House of Representatives.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Louisiana. As no candidate won a majority of the vote,a runoff was held on December 6,2014.
Marcus Lamar Hunter is an American politician and second generation attorney from Monroe,Louisiana. A Democrat,Hunter is judge-elect of the Louisiana 4th Judicial District Court,ES 1,Div. G. He won the position,53-47 percent),in the primary election held on November 6,2018,in conjunction with congressional general elections in the other forty-nine states.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Louisiana took place on November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Louisiana,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Jeremiah S. Bacon,known as J. S. Bacon,was a Democrat from rural Heflin,Louisiana,who represented Webster Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1926 to 1932.
James Michael Johnson is an American attorney,politician,and former talk radio host serving as the U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district. First elected in 2016,he is also the Vice Chairman of the House Republican Conference. He previously served as chairman of the House Republican Study Committee,the largest caucus of conservatives in Congress,and a coalition of socially- and fiscally-conservative members of the larger House Republican Conference.
Ramsey Reid Falconer,known as Reid Falconer,is a former Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 89 in St. Tammany Parish in suburban New Orleans,Louisiana. On January 11,2016,he succeeded the term-limited Republican Representative Timothy Burns. In 2019,he ran for District 11 in the Louisiana State Senate,but lost to fellow Republican Patrick McMath.
Sylvia Delores Miller Horton,known as Dodie Horton,is a Republican from Haughton,Louisiana,who is the state representative for District 9 in Bossier Parish in the northwestern corner of her state.
