Mary Loretta Landrieu is an American entrepreneur and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana from 1997 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,Landrieu served as the Louisiana State Treasurer from 1988 to 1996,and in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1980 to 1988.
Anthony Richard Perkins is an American politician and Southern Baptist pastor,who has served as president of the Family Research Council since 2003. Previously,he was a police officer and television reporter. From 1996 to 2004,he served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 2002. On May 14,2018,he was appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom by then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,and on June 17,2019,the Commission elected him Chairman.
William Morgan Cassidy is an American physician and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Louisiana,a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he served in the Louisiana State Senate from 2006 to 2009 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015.
Eric LaFleur is an American attorney and politician. A Democrat,LaFleur is a former member of the Louisiana State Senate for the 28th district,serving from 2008 until 2020. Earlier he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 38 from 2000 to 2008. He was first elected without opposition to an open seat vacated by Dirk Deville. He was re-elected four years later in 2003 with 81 percent of the vote.
John Bel Edwards is an American politician and attorney who served as the 56th governor of Louisiana from 2016 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Party,he was the Democratic leader of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2012 to 2015.
Lydia Patrice Jackson is a Democratic former member of the Louisiana State Senate from Shreveport,Louisiana. An African American,Jackson represented District 39 in Caddo Parish in the far northwestern corner of her state from 2004 to 2012.
Sharon Weston Broome is the mayor-president of Baton Rouge,Louisiana. She served in the Louisiana State Senate representing the 15th district from 2005 to 2016. She was elected mayor-president in a runoff election held on December 10,2016. Broome is the first African-American woman to serve as mayor-president.
Franklin Johnson Foil is a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate for the 16th district,serving since 2020. He formerly represented the 70th district in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2008 until 2020.
Alan Thomas Seabaugh is an American attorney from Shreveport,Louisiana,who is a Republican member of the Louisiana Senate from District 31. He previously served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 5 in Caddo Parish.
Russell Barrow Peacock is a former Republican state senator for District 37 in northwestern Louisiana.
Elbert Lee Guillory is an American politician who is a former member of the Louisiana State Senate. A Republican,he represented District 24,including his native Opelousas,and several rural precincts,from May 2,2009,when he won a special election,until January 11,2016,when his full term to which he was elected in 2011 ended. Guillory previously served from 2006 to 2009 as state representative for District 40. Guillory is running to represent Louisiana's 6th congressional district in the 2024 election.
Katrina Renee Jackson-Andrews is an American attorney and politician from Monroe,Louisiana,who is a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate for the 34th district,serving since 2020. From 2012 until 2020,Jackson served in the Louisiana House of Representatives for the 16th district,which includes Morehouse and Ouachita parishes.
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.
Rodnette Bethley Edwards,known as Ronnie Edwards,was an African-American Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 29 in West and East Baton Rouge Parish,Louisiana. She served for 44 days but did not actually assume the duties of her office because she was in the final stages of a two-year struggle with pancreatic cancer.
Edmond Dwayne Jordan is an American attorney and politician. He is a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 29. On May 14,2016,he won a special election runoff to succeed fellow Democrat Ronnie Edwards.
Louisiana's 15th State Senate district is one of 39 districts in the Louisiana State Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Regina Barrow since 2016,succeeding fellow Democrat Sharon Weston Broome.
The 2022 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 8,2022,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Louisiana. Incumbent Republican U.S. senator John Kennedy was first elected in 2016. He ran for re-election to a second term,and was re-elected after receiving a majority of votes in the first round.
Patricia Haynes Smith is an American politician who served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2008 to 2020,representing District 67. Smith is affiliated with the Democratic party. Her platform focused on promoting access to healthcare and other resources for underprivileged communities and improving education in public schools.
Jean McGlothlin Doerge is director of the Germantown Colony and Museum in Webster Parish,Louisiana,and a former Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives who represented District 10 from 1998 to 2012. From 2001 to 2006,she served as the vice chair of the House's Commerce Committee;in 2007,she was appointed to the Louisiana House Appropriations Committee,and from 2008 to 2012,she served as the vice chair of the Retirement Committee.
Dan Claitor is an American politician. He served as a Republican member for the 16th district of the Louisiana State Senate.
