Vernon Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census,the population was 48,750. The parish seat is Leesville. Bordered on the west by the Sabine River,the parish was founded in 1871 during the Reconstruction era.
Benton is a town in,and the parish seat of,Bossier Parish,in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 2,048 in 2020. The town is named for 19th century U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton,a Democrat from Missouri and an ally of U.S. President Andrew Jackson.
Bossier City is a city in Bossier Parish in the northwestern region of the state of Louisiana in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan statistical area. In 2020,it had a total population of 62,701,up from 61,315 in 2010.
Charles Elson "Buddy" Roemer III was an American politician,investor,and banker who served as the 52nd governor of Louisiana from 1988 to 1992,and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1988. In March 1991,while serving as governor,Roemer switched affiliation from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.
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.
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 first round of the Louisiana House election of 2006 were held on Tuesday,November 7,2006. The terms of all seven Representatives to the United States House of Representatives will expire on January 3,2007,and will be put up for contest. The winning candidates will serve a two-year term from January 3,2007,to January 3,2009. If necessary,a runoff round will be held on December 9,2006.
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.
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.
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 2008 congressional elections in Louisiana to determine representation for the state of Louisiana in the United States House of Representatives occurred November 4,2008. Louisiana has seven seats in the House,apportioned according to the 2000 United States census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms;those elected will serve in the 111th Congress from January 4,2009 until January 3,2011. The election coincided with the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Paul Joseph Carmouche is an American lawyer who served as a five-term District Attorney for Caddo Parish,Louisiana from 1979 to 2009. Before his tenure as district attorney,Carmouche graduated from Loyola University New Orleans Law School in 1969 and worked as an assistant in the DA's office from 1974 to 1977. Carmouche was also a one-time candidate for the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 4th congressional district,having narrowly lost that race to Republican challenger John C. Fleming in 2008.
John Calvin Fleming Jr. is an American politician,physician,military veteran,and businessman who is the current Louisiana State Treasurer,having been elected in 2023. Fleming previously served as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district from 2009 to 2017. After leaving congress,he served two years in the Trump administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Information Technology Reform and then served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development from March 2019 to 2020. In March 2020,he was appointed to a position in the White House as Assistant to the President for Planning and Implementation.
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.
Charles Elson Roemer II,also known as Charlie Roemer or Budgie Roemer,was a farmer and businessman from Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana,who served as the commissioner of administration from 1972 to 1980 in the first two terms of Governor Edwin Washington Edwards. He was the father of Charles Elson "Buddy" Roemer III,who served as governor from 1988 to 1992,between the third and fourth Edwards terms.
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.
The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana were held on November 8,2016,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 the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana were held on November 3,2020,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.
Joseph David Waggonner Jr. was a Democratic U.S. Representative for the 4th congressional district in northwest Louisiana from December 1961 to January 1979. He was also a confidant of Republican President Richard Nixon.
Thomas Jerald Huckaby is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 5th congressional district for 16 years,from 1977 to 1993.
