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East Carroll Parish is a parish located in the Mississippi Delta in northeastern Louisiana, part of what was called the Natchez District of cotton parishes. As of the 2010 census, the population was 7,759. The parish seat is Lake Providence. An area of cotton plantations in the antebellum era, the parish in the early 21st century has about 74% of its land devoted to agriculture.
Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA), located in the Gert Town section of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States, is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college with the distinction of being the only historically black Roman Catholic institution of higher education in the United States.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Alexandria (Louisiana) is the Latin suffragan diocese for central Louisiana in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans.
Adras Paul LaBorde I, was a reporter, managing editor, and columnist for the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, the largest newspaper in Central Louisiana. He was active from the mid-1940s into the early 1990s. Considered an authority on 20th-century Louisiana government and politics, he wrote some ten thousand columns under the title, "The Talk of the Town," a play on the name of the newspaper. LaBorde wrote about the strengths and the foibles of the states politicians. In 2012, he was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame.
Dr. Norman Christopher Francis, is a former president of Xavier University of Louisiana. He served the position from 1968-2015 as the first lay (non-clergy) president of Xavier. He also served as the chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the state agency in charge of planning the recovery and rebuilding of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The Ransdell Act, reorganized, expanded and redesignated the Laboratory of Hygiene as the National Institute of Health.
The 1996 Louisiana United States Senate election was held on November 5, 1996 to select a new U.S. Senator from the state of Louisiana to replace retiring John Bennett Johnston, Jr. of Shreveport. After the jungle primary election, state treasurer Mary Landrieu went into a runoff election with State Representative Woody Jenkins of Baton Rouge, a former Democrat who had turned Republican two years earlier. She prevailed by 5,788 votes out of 1.7 million cast, the narrowest national result of the thirty-three races for the U.S. Senate that year and one of the closest election margins in Louisiana history. At the same time, Democrat Bill Clinton carried Louisiana by a considerable margin of 927,837 votes to 712,586 cast for Republican Bob Dole.
St. Francis Xavier Cathedral may refer to:
St. Francis Xavier Church, including ones named Cathedral, and variations refer to:
Francis Xavier Leray was a French-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Natchitoches (1877–1879) and Archbishop of New Orleans (1883–1887).
Francis August Anthony Joseph Janssens was a Dutch-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Natchez (1881–1888) and Archbishop of New Orleans (1888–1897).
Francis is a French and English surname of Latin origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Lee Emmett Thomas was an attorney and banker who served as the mayor of Shreveport in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, from 1922 to 1930. He was from 1912 to 1916 the Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
David Ransdell Voelker was an entrepreneur and community leader in his adopted city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Frank Voelker Sr., was an attorney and judge of the Louisiana 6th Judicial District Court of his native Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish in the northeastern delta of Louisiana. The 6th district also encompasses Madison and Tensas parishes south of East Carroll. He served from 1937 to his death in 1963.
Frank Voelker, Jr., was an attorney from Lake Providence, Louisiana, who served as chairman from 1962 to 1963 of the former Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission. He was briefly, a candidate in 1963 for governor of Louisiana. His family was based in East Carroll Parish in the northeast Louisiana delta bordering the Mississippi River.
John Martin Hamley, Sr., served from 1912 to 1924 as a
Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from East Carroll Parish in far northeastern Louisiana.
Fernand Joseph Cheri is a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He has served as the auxiliary bishop of New Orleans from 2015.
