John Holmes Overton Sr.,was an attorney and Democratic US Representative and US Senator from Louisiana. His nephew,Thomas Overton Brooks,was also a US representative,from the Shreveport-based 4th district of Louisiana.
Louis Elwood Jenkins Jr.,known as Woody Jenkins,is an American 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.
Cleo Fields is an American attorney and politician who serves in the Louisiana Senate. He represented Louisiana's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1997 and ran unsuccessfully for governor of Louisiana in 1995. He serves as a state senator for Louisiana's 14th State Senate district,a position he held twice before. Fields is a member of the Democratic Party.
William Henson Moore III is an American attorney and businessman. He is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives,having represented Louisiana's 6th congressional district,based in 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.
Joseph Eugene Ransdell was an attorney and politician from Louisiana. Beginning in 1899,he was elected for seven consecutive terms as United States representative from Louisiana's 5th congressional district. He subsequently served for three terms in the United States Senate from Louisiana before being defeated in the 1930 Democratic primary for the seat by Governor Huey Long.
Edwin Sidney Broussard Sr. was a United States senator from Louisiana,who served for two terms from March 5,1921,to March 3,1933.
John Charles Cooksey was an American ophthalmologist and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 5th congressional district from 1997 to 2003.
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.
Jared Young Sanders Sr. was an American journalist and attorney from Franklin,the seat of St. Mary Parish in south Louisiana,who served as his state's House Speaker (1900–1904),lieutenant governor (1904–1908),the 34th Governor (1908–1912),and U.S. representative (1917–1921). Near the end of his political career he was a part of the anti-Long faction within the Louisiana Democratic Party. Huey Pierce Long Jr.,in fact had once grappled with Sanders in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans.
Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock,an American 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.
George Kent Favrot was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
Newt Virgus Mills was an American educator,businessman,and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative in the first half of the 20th century for Louisiana's 5th congressional district,based in Monroe,Louisiana.
Samuel Matthews Robertson was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana,son of Edward White Robertson.
Patrick Thomson Caffery,Sr.,known as Pat Caffery,was an attorney from New Iberia,Louisiana,who formerly served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1964 to 1968 and then as a U.S. representative from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district from 1969 to 1973.
Bolivar Edwards Kemp Sr.,was an attorney and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 6th congressional district.
John Keller Griffith was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 6th congressional district.
Donald Jules Cazayoux Jr. is an American lawyer and former politician. He served as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana from 2010 to 2013. From 2008 to 2009,he was a Democratic United States Representative from Louisiana's 6th congressional district.
Harry D. Wilson was a Democratic politician from Tangipahoa Parish,one of the Florida Parishes of southeastern Louisiana,who served from 1916 until his death as the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry. He was the father of the humorist and chef Justin E. Wilson.
Benjamin F. Holt, known as Ben F. Holt,was a Conservative Democrat from Pineville,Louisiana,who served a single term in the Louisiana House of Representatives for Rapides Parish from 1956 to 1960,during the administration of Governor Earl Kemp Long.
John Richard Rarick was an American lawyer,jurist,and World War II veteran who served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives,serving Louisiana's 6th congressional district from 1967 to 1975.
