Robert Jocelyn Barham is an American large-scale farmer from Morehouse Parish in northern Louisiana who served for all eight years under former Governor Bobby Jindal as the secretary of his state's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. He is a Republican former member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 33, all of which border Arkansas in the northeastern section of his state.
James Earl Mayo, is the former mayor of Monroe, the seat of Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States. First appointed as interim mayor, he won a special election to become mayor in 2001, and was then re-elected to four full terms, ending July 2020. Mayo holds the record as longest-serving mayor of Monroe, surpassing the mark previously held by William Lorenzo Howard.
Dewey Lee Fletcher, Jr., was an American political consultant and a talk radio host and blogger in Monroe, Louisiana, who was defeated by 974 votes in a 2002 race for the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 5th congressional district. A Republican activist, Fletcher lost to the Democrat Rodney Alexander of Quitman in Jackson Parish. Alexander prevailed with 86,718 votes to Fletcher's 85,744.
Hartwell Neil Riser Jr., known as Neil Riser, is a funeral home owner in Columbia in Caldwell Parish in northeastern Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the 20th district, serving since 2020.
\ Nancy Ruth Landry, also known as Nancy L. Matthews, is a family practice lawyer from Lafayette, Louisiana, who was from 2008 to 2019 a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 31. She won the seat in a special election in 2008 upon the resignation of Republican Donald Trahan. In the 2007 nonpartisan blanket primary, Landry had come within thirty-three votes of defeating Trajan.
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.
Alan Thomas Seabaugh is an American attorney from Shreveport, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 5 in Caddo Parish.
John Felix Anders, known as Andy Anders, is a farmer and agricultural equipment salesman from Clayton in eastern Louisiana, who is a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 21, which encompasses Concordia and parts of Tensas, Madison, and East Carroll parishes. Since his service dates back to 2006, he is in 2019 the dean, or senior member, of the state House.
John Clyde Morris III is a businessman and attorney from Monroe, Louisiana. A Republican, Morris has been a member of the Louisiana State Senate for the 35th district in North Louisiana since 2020. From 2012 until 2020, Morris was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 14, which encompasses Ouachita and Morehouse parishes in the northeastern portion of his state.
Russell Barrow Peacock is the current Republican state senator for District 37 in northwestern Louisiana. He began his second term on January 11, 2016.
A special election for Louisiana's 5th congressional district was held on November 16, 2013, to elect a member of the United States House of Representatives. Incumbent Republican Congressman Rodney Alexander resigned on September 26, 2013, to become the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs under Governor Bobby Jindal.
Robert Ermon Shadoin, known principally as Rob Shadoin, is a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 12, which includes Lincoln and Union parishes in North Louisiana. An attorney in Ruston, Louisiana, Shadoin resigned his legislative seat in 2018 to join the administration of Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards as the deputy counsel in the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries under agency secretary Jack Montoucet.
James Peyton Smith, known as James P. Smith, was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Union and Morehouse parishes in North Louisiana, a position which he held from 1964 to 1972 during the administration of Governor John McKeithen. In the first term he represented only Union Parish. Thereafter from 1972 to 1992, he was the sergeant-at-arms of the Louisiana State Senate.
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.
Vance Michael McAllister Sr., is a Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 5th congressional district. He won a special runoff election held on November 16, 2013, for the seat vacated by fellow Republican Rodney Alexander. A year later, following a scandal involving infidelity, McAllister placed fourth, with 11.1 percent of the vote, in a competitive primary for a full term in the U.S. House.
Patrick O'Neal Jefferson is a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the 11th district, which includes Bienville, Claiborne, and Lincoln parishes. Jefferson is an attorney in private practice in Arcadia, Louisiana.
Charles David Ginn, known as David 'Bo' Ginn Williams, is a Democrat former member of the Louisiana State Senate from Bastrop, Louisiana. He formerly resided in Tupelo, Mississippi. From 1980 to 1988, Ginn represented Senate District 33, which in the first term encompassed his own Morehouse Parish and Richland, West Carroll, and East Carroll parishes in the northeastern portion of his state.
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 chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, a coalition of socially- and fiscally-conservative members of the larger House Republican Conference.
Anthony Joseph Bacala, Jr., known as Tony Bacala, is a law enforcement officer from Prairieville, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 59 in Ascension Parish.
Louisiana's 33rd State Senate district is one of 39 districts in the Louisiana State Senate. It has been represented by Republican Stewart Cathey, Jr. since 2020, succeeding fellow Republican Mike Walsworth.
