Winn Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,313. Its seat is Winnfield. The parish was founded in 1852. It is last in alphabetical order of Louisiana's sixty-four parishes.
Oscar Kelly Allen Sr., also known as O. K. Allen, was the 42nd Governor of Louisiana from 1932 to 1936.
Asa Leonard Allen was an educator, attorney, and member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana. He served eight terms as a Democrat from 1937 to 1953, having represented the now defunct Eighth Congressional District, centered about Alexandria.
Louisiana Highway 34 (LA 34) is a state highway located in central and northern Louisiana. It runs 86.12 miles (138.60 km) in a southwest to northeast direction from the junction of U.S. Highway 71 (US 71) and LA 1239-2 in Montgomery to a junction with the concurrent US 80/LA 15 in West Monroe.
Jimmy Dale Long Sr. was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 23 from 1968 until 2000. He was the "dean" of the Louisiana House when he returned to private life. A recognized authority on educational policy, for sixteen years, he chaired the House Education Committee. Shreveport The ShreveportTimes named Long "One of the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century in North Louisiana." He was a member of the Long political dynasty.
Gerald Long, is a rare Republican member of the traditionally Democratic Long political dynasty in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Specifically, he is a third cousin of the late Governors Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Earl Kemp Long.
Donald Gene Kelly, usually known as Don Kelly , is a prominent trial lawyer and American Quarter Horse breeder in Natchitoches, Louisiana, who served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1976 to 1996. His tenure covered three of the four terms of Democratic Governor Edwin Washington Edwards and the single gubernatorial terms of Republican David C. Treen and Democrat-turned-Republican Buddy Roemer.
Iberia Parish School System is a school district headquartered in New Iberia, Louisiana, United States. The district serves all of Iberia Parish and all of the city of Delcambre, which has portions located in Vermilion Parish.
Readhimer is an unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is located along Louisiana Highway 9 in far northeastern Natchitoches Parish to the northeast of the parish seat of Natchitoches.
Kenneth Michael Smith Sr., known as Mike Smith, is a businessman in Winnfield, Louisiana, who served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1996 to 2008.
Ashton B. Collier was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Atlanta in Winn Parish, Louisiana. He served interrupted terms from 1956 to 1960 and again from 1964 to 1970, when he resigned in the middle of his third term to become, briefly, the Winn Parish tax assessor.
Robert Oren Trout was an American sociologist whose principal academic career was based at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, where he was the longtime chairman of the Social Sciences Department.
Morris Newton Abrams was a Louisiana educator who specialized in the field of vocational education.
Chestnut is an unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Harley Bernard Bozeman was a salesman, tree farmer, politician, and historian from Winnfield, Louisiana, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1928 to 1929. He was a confidant of Democratic Governors Huey Pierce Long Jr., and Earl Kemp Long, who were also from Winn Parish in North Louisiana.
Wilbur Teal McCain, Sr., known as W. T. "Brandy" McCain, was a Democratic legislator and judge from his native Colfax in Grant Parish in north central Louisiana.
George Lovick Pierce Wren, known as G. L. P. Wren, was a native Georgian who served from 1884 to 1892 as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives as the sole member from his adopted Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. His tenure corresponded with the administrations of Governors Samuel Douglas McEnery and Francis T. Nicholls.
Terry Ray Reeves, was from 1991 until his death by suicide the district attorney of the 8th Judicial District Court for his native Winn Parish in North Louisiana, the ancestral home of the Long political dynasty.
Jack Gideon McFarland is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 13, which encompasses Bienville, Jackson, Ouachita, and Winn parishes in north Louisiana. On January 11, 2016, McFarland succeeded outgoing Republican Representative James R. Fannin, who was elected to the District 35 seat in the Louisiana State Senate in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24, 2015.
