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.
Earl Kemp Long was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Louisiana for nine years. A member of the Democratic Party,he held the same position that his brother,Huey Long,held years earlier (1928–1932).
James Otis McCrery III is an American lawyer,politician and lobbyist who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1988 to 2009. He represented the 4th District of Louisiana,based in the northwestern quadrant of the state.
John Bennett Johnston Jr. is a retired American attorney,politician,and later lobbyist from Louisiana. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a member the United States Senate from 1972 to 1997.
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.
Louisiana's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The district is located in the northwestern part of the state and is based in Shreveport-Bossier City. It also includes the cities of Minden,DeRidder,and Natchitoches.
The 1964 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on March 3,1964. Democrat John McKeithen won a highly-competitive primary and dispatched Republican Charlton Lyons in the general election,though Lyons made a historically good showing for a Louisiana Republican up to this point.
Louisiana Highway 3 (LA 3) is a state highway located in Bossier Parish,Louisiana. It runs 35.71 miles (57.47 km) in a north–south direction from the junction of Interstate 20 (I-20),U.S. Highway 71 (US 71),and LA 72 in Bossier City to the Arkansas state line north of Plain Dealing.
Foster Lonnie Campbell Jr. is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party from the U.S. state of Louisiana. Since 2003,he has been a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. He served in the Louisiana State Senate from 1976 to 2002.
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.
Bernhard Müller,known as Count de Leon,was a German Christian mystic and alchemist of uncertain origins.
Carlos Gustave Spaht,I,was a Louisiana judge best remembered for having lost the Democratic gubernatorial runoff election in January 1952 to fellow Judge Robert F. Kennon of Minden,the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. Spaht's unsuccessful running mate for lieutenant governor was future Governor John J. McKeithen of Columbia,the seat of Caldwell Parish in north Louisiana. McKeithen lost to then State Senator C.E. "Cap" Barham of Ruston,the seat of Lincoln Parish,also in north Louisiana. At the time,McKeithen was an outgoing member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
The Germantown Colony and Museum is a museum and historical preservation project in Webster Parish,Louisiana about 7 miles (11 km) north of Minden in northwestern Louisiana,USA. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Germantown in 1979.
Jefferson Rowe Thompson, known as Jeff R. Thompson,is a judge Louisiana's Second Circuit Court of Appeal,previously served as a district judge for the 26th Judicial District Court for Bossier and Webster parishes,who is a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 8,a position which he held from January 2012 to January 2015.
The Shreveport Journal was an American newspaper originally published by H. P. Benton in Shreveport and Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana. In operation from at least 1897,it ceased publication in 1991.
Gilbert Lynel "Gil" Dozier,was an attorney,businessman,farmer,and rancher who served from 1976 to 1980 as the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry. A Democrat,Dozier's political career ended with felony convictions and imprisonment for nearly four years. Most of his adult life was spent in and about Baton Rouge,Louisiana.
Wellborn Jack,Sr.,was an attorney from Shreveport,Louisiana,who was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Caddo Parish serving from 1940 to 1964. He finished in sixth place for five at-large seats in the general election held on March 3,1964.
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.
Jeffrey Stephen Cox,known as Jeff Cox is a judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit,based in Shreveport,Louisiana.
