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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.

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Taylor Walters O'Hearn was a Louisiana politician and pioneer in the rebirth of the Republican Party in the state during the mid-20th century. In 1964, when blacks in the state were still essentially disenfranchised, he and Morley A. Hudson, both white men of Shreveport in Caddo Parish, were elected at-large from the parish as the first two Republicans to serve in the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction. Each man was defeated for re-election in 1968 after a single term.

John Craig Flournoy is a journalism professor at the University of Cincinnati and a former investigative reporter for The Dallas Morning News, at which his work included coverage of the latter portion of the civil rights movement.

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.

A. C. Steere Elementary School, formerly Broadmoor School, is an elementary school located at 4009 Youree Drive in Shreveport, Louisiana, and operated under the direction of the Caddo Parish school board.

Frank Russo Fulco, Sr., was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Caddo Parish, having served from 1956 to 1972. He was a part of the Long faction and had once been a member of Long's popular Share Our Wealth Club. He was also a leader of the Italian-American community in his native Louisiana.

Benjamin Cornwell Dawkins Jr. was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.

Jackson Beauregard Davis Sr. was an American lawyer and politician based in Shreveport, Louisiana, who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate from 1956 to 1980. Into his nineties, Davis continued to practice law and was active in community affairs, often addressing public gatherings.

Gregory Williams Tarver, Sr., known as Greg Tarver, is an African American businessman and Democratic politician in Shreveport, Louisiana, who served on the Shreveport City Council from 1978 to 1984 and as a Louisiana state senator from the predominantly black District 39 in Caddo Parish from 1984 to 2004.

Perry Polk Keith, Sr., was a planter, developer, and a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives who was the co-founder and namesake of the unincorporated community of Keithville outside Shreveport in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana.

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.

George Wendell D'Artois, Sr., was a law-enforcement officer and politician in Shreveport, Louisiana. He served from 1962 to 1976 as public safety commissioner of the city, which was an elected position. Solid achievements were attributed to him.

Donald Edgar Hathaway, Sr., known as Don Hathaway, is a businessman and retired politician from his native Shreveport, Louisiana. From 1970 to 1978, Hathaway, a Democrat, was his city's last public works commissioner, an office abolished effective November 1978 with the implementation of a new city charter. From 1980 to 2000, he was the sheriff of Caddo Parish in the northwestern corner of his state.

James S. Leslie, known as Jim Leslie, was a journalist for The Shreveport Times who became a public relations and advertising executive in Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana. He is known for having been a homicide victim in the state capital, Baton Rouge on July 9, 1976, in a case described by the police as a "professional hit." George W. D'Artois, the Public Safety Commissioner in Shreveport, was twice arrested in the case; the first time he was released for lack of evidence. He was arrested again on charges of first-degree murder in April 1977, suspected of contracting for the murder of Leslie, but he died in June of that year during heart surgery. No one was tried in the case.

Joseph T. Cawthorn, known as Joe T. Cawthorn, was an attorney, businessman, and a Democratic politician from Mansfield in DeSoto Parish in northwestern Louisiana. He was affiliated with the Long faction of state politics.

James McCormick Goslin, Jr., known as James M. Goslin or Jimmy Goslin, was from 1966 to 1976 the sheriff of Caddo Parish, based in Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana.

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