West Monroe is the second largest city in Ouachita Parish,Louisiana,United States. It is situated on the Ouachita River,across from the neighboring city of Monroe. The two cities are often referred to as the Twin Cities of northeast Louisiana. Its population was 13,065 at the 2010 census and it is part of the Monroe Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Russell Billiu Long was an American Democratic politician and United States Senator from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987. Because of his seniority,he advanced to chairman of the Senate Finance Committee,serving for fifteen years,from 1966 to 1981,during the implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty programs. Long also served as Assistant Majority Leader from 1965 to 1969.
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).
Rodney McKinnie Alexander is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs from September 30,2013,until June 3,2014. Previously he was the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 5th congressional district from 2003 to 2013. First elected as a Democrat,he changed parties in 2004 to run as a Republican and was re-elected five times.
James Houston Davis was an American singer,songwriter,and politician. After achieving fame for releasing both sacred and popular songs,Davis served as governor of Louisiana from 1944 to 1948 and again from 1960 to 1964. As Governor,he was an opponent of efforts to desegregate Louisiana.
John Bennett Johnston Jr. is a retired American attorney,politician,and later lobbyist from Louisiana. A member of the Democratic Party,Johnston 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.
Joseph Eugene Ransdell was an attorney and politician from Louisiana. Beginning in 1899,he was elected for seven consecutive terms as United States representative from Louisiana's 5th congressional district. He subsequently served for three terms in the United States Senate from Louisiana before being defeated in the 1930 Democratic primary for the seat by Governor Huey Long.
Mary Catherine Small Long was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district,which she filled from 1985 to 1987,the remainder of the term left by the death of her husband,Gillis William Long. Until it was disbanded in 1993,the 8th district was based in Central Louisiana about Alexandria. She was the first female military veteran elected to Congress,having served as a WAVE in the United States Navy.
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.
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.
Newt Virgus Mills was an American educator,businessman,and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative in the first half of the 20th century for Louisiana's 5th congressional district,based in Monroe,Louisiana.
Charles Edgar Mckenzie was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 5th congressional district,based in the northeastern quadrant of his state,for two terms from 1943 to 1947.
The Long family is a family of politicians from the United States. Many have characterized it as a political dynasty. After Huey Long's 1935 assassination,a family dynasty emerged:his brother Earl was elected lieutenant-governor in 1936,and governor in 1948 and 1956. Long's widow,Rose McConnell Long,was appointed to replace him in the Senate,and his son Russell B. Long,was a U.S. senator from 1948 to 1987. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee,Russell shaped the nation's tax laws. He was an advocate of low business taxes,but also passed the Earned Income Credit and other tax legislation beneficial to the poor. In addition to Long's brother Earl K. Long becoming governor,brother Julius Long was a Winn Parish District Attorney,and brother George S. Long was elected to Congress in 1952. Other more distant relatives,including Gillis William Long and Speedy O. Long,represented Louisiana in the U.S. Congress. Jimmy D. Long of Natchitoches Parish served for 32 years in the Louisiana House. Jimmy's younger brother Gerald Long holds the distinction of being the first office-holder to be a registered Republican among the Long Democratic dynasty.
Henry Ernest Hardtner was a Louisiana businessman and conservationist regarded as "the father of forestry in the South." He founded and named the town of Urania in La Salle Parish and served single terms as a Democrat in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature. In 1900 he was the Republican candidate for Louisiana's 5th congressional district,losing to future U.S. Senator Joseph E. Ransdell of Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish.
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.
Speedy Oteria Long was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 8th congressional district from January 3,1965,until January 3,1973. He was a member of the Long family,a cousin of Huey Long,Earl K. Long,Russell Long,and Gillis William Long.
Gillis William Long was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. representative from Louisiana. He was a member of the Long family and cousin of Speedy Long.
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.
