Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame | |
Map Type: | Louisiana |
Location: | 498 E. Main Street, Winnfield, Louisiana |
Map Dot Label: | LA Political Museum |
Coordinates: | 31.9268°N -92.6354°W |
Established: | 1987 |
Website: | LPM Official Site |
The Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame is a museum and hall of fame located in Winnfield, Louisiana. Created by a 1987 act of the Louisiana State Legislature, it honors the best-known politicians and political journalists in the state.
Name | Image | Birth–death | Year | Area of achievement |
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(1943–) | 2003 | Former speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1984–1988; 1992–1996; Louisiana State Senate President, 2012-2020 [1] | ||
(1910–1999) | 2018 | Louisiana state representative for Orleans Parish; figure in the civil rights movement[2] | ||
(1946–) | 2010 | Former U.S. representative for Louisiana's 5th congressional district, 2003–2013; secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs, 2013–2014; state representative for Jackson Parish, 1988–2002[3] | ||
(1891–1969) | 1994 | U.S. representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district (since disbanded), 1937–1953[4] | ||
(1882–1936) | 1997 | Governor of Louisiana, 1932–1936[5] | ||
(1953–2017) | 2009 | State representative from Concordia Parish, 1984–1992; Acting Louisiana Secretary of State, 2005–2006 | ||
(1934–2009) | 2012 | Mayor of Pineville, 1970–1998[6] | ||
(1948–) | 2007 | State senator, 1991–2008; state representative, 1976–1991; temporary member of the New Orleans City Council, 2012–2013[7] | ||
(1948–) | 2008 | Lobbyist; U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 6th congressional district, 1987–2008; state representative from Baton Rouge, 1972–1987[8] | ||
(1907–2010) | 2002 | Former member, secretary, and chairman of the Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education [9] | ||
(1934–2010) | 2013 | Louisiana State Senator, 1964–1972; 1976–1988[10] | ||
(1941–2020) | 2005 | United States Secret Service agent who accompanied President Richard M. Nixon to China; operates commercial horticultural nursery in Forest Hill in Rapides Parish[11] | ||
(1914–1998) | 1996 | African American civil rights attorney from Alexandria, Dean of Southern University Law Center from 1972 to 1974 [12] | ||
(1942–2019) | 2006 | Governor of Louisiana, 2004–2008; Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, 1996–2004; Louisiana Public Service Commissioner, 1989–1996; state representative from Lafayette, 1984–1989[13] | ||
(1935–2022) | 2019 | Academic administrator and football coach; "First Gentleman of Louisiana", 2004–2008, while his wife, Kathleen, was governor[14] | ||
(1914–1972) | 1993 | U.S. representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, 1947–1973; Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, 1971–1973; House Majority Whip, 1962–1971[15] | ||
(1916–2013) | 1994 | U.S. representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, 1973–1991]; United States Ambassador to the Holy See, 1997–2001[16] | ||
(1927–2008) | 2004 | Louisiana state senator from Ouachita and Richland parishes, 1952–1956 | ||
(1926–2002) | 2002 | Mayor of Lafayette, 1972–1980; 1992–1996 | ||
(1891–1971) | 2002 | Historian, state representative, 1929–1930; political crony of Huey Long[17] | ||
(1944–) | 2003 | United States Senator, 1987 to 2005; U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 7th congressional district, 1972–1987[18] | ||
(1940–) | 2011 | Political consultant; state senator from Concordia Parish, 1972–1980; Louisiana secretary of state, 1980–1988; Louisiana insurance commissioner, 1991–2000[19] | ||
(1926–1995) | 2014 | State representative from Orleans Parish, 1952–1960; Democratic national committeeman, 1964 to 1972; member of Louisiana State Board of Education, 1960s | ||
(1942–) | 2015 | Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Orleans Parish, 1976–2007[20] | ||
(1919–2011) | 1994 | President, Louisiana AFL–CIO, 1956–1997 | ||
(1946–) | 2015 | Attorney General of Louisiana, 2008–2016; former district attorney in Madison Parish, 1979–2008 | ||
(1886–1974) | 2000 | Diplomat[21] | ||
(1942–) | 2002 | Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, 1995–2016; founder of Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum[22] | ||
(1947–) | 2009 | State Senator, 1976–2003; member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission since 2003; candidate for governor, 2007 and U.S. Senator, 2016 | ||
(1944–) | 1996 | Manager of Bill Clinton's Presidential campaigns, television news media commentator [23] | ||
(1932–1991) | 2013 | State representative, 1972–1980; state senator from Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, 1980–1991 | ||
(1956–) | 2013 | State senator from Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes from 1992 to 1996 | ||
(1975–) | 2013 | State senator from Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes since 2009 | ||
(1936–2019) | 2003 | Singer and political candidate[24] | ||
(c. 1772–1817) | 1993 | First Governor of Louisiana, as well as Governor of the Territory of Orleans[25] | ||
(1945–) | 2007 | Former Louisiana Commissioner of Higher Education[26] Also served as Adjunct Professor for Louisiana State University, Deputy Commissioner of Administration, Secretary of Education for the Office of the Governor, and President of Southeastern Louisiana University.[27] | ||
(1940–) | 2013 | Mayor of Vidalia, 1992–2016[28] | ||
(1926–2024) | 2003 | District attorney of Orleans Parish, 1973–2003; investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy; father of singer Harry Connick Jr.[29] | ||
(1953–) | 2006 | Political analyst[30] | ||
(1954–) | 2018 | Lieutenant governor of Louisiana, 2010–2016; Louisiana secretary of state, 2006–2010; state senator from Baton Rouge, 1992–2006; Louisiana Commissioner of Administration, since 2016[31] | ||
(1955–) | 2018 | Louisiana State Representative for Orleans and Jefferson parishes, 1980–1996[32] | ||
(1899–2000) | 1993 | Governor of Louisiana[33] | ||
(1915–2011) | 1993 | Editorial cartoonist, Shreveport Times | ||
(1913–2008) | 2007 | Chair, state Republican Party, 1968–1972[34] | ||
(1915–2017)[35] | 2007 | Republican National Committeewoman (1964–1968) | ||
(1922–2014) | 2013 | Mayor, Bossier City, 1989–2005[36] | ||
(1947–) | 2004 | Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 2000–2004 | ||
(1944–) | 2015 | State representative for Ascension Parish from 1976 to 2004 | ||
(1938–2023) | 2017 | State representative (1976–1999), House Speaker (1988–1992), and district judge (1999–2006) from Monroe[37] | ||
(1909–1991) | 2002 | Louisiana state representative, 1940–1948; lieutenant governor, 1948–1952; state superintendent of education, 1964–1972 | ||
(1899–1975) | 1999 | Sheriff of St. Landry Parish, Huey Long protégé[38] | ||
(1946–) | 2007 | State representative | ||
(1927–2021) | 1993 | Governor of Louisiana, 1972-80, 1984-88, 1992-96; U.S. Representative, 1965-72[39] | ||
(1966–) | 2014 | Governor of Louisiana, 2016-24; former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Tangipahoa Parish; 56th Governor of Louisiana; part of the Edwards political family given group induction | ||
(1890–1972) | 1994 | United States senator[40] | ||
(1942–) | 2015 | Member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Franklin Parish; Winnsboro cotton merchant and deputy state insurance commissioner | ||
(1944–) | 2010 | State senator | ||
(1921–2021) | 1999 | Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, 1972–1980[41] | ||
(1950–) | 2005 | President of Honduras | ||
2005 | First Lady of Honduras, humanitarian worker[42] | |||
(1849–1921) | 1997 | Governor of Louisiana, 1892–1900[43] | ||
(1930–2020) | 2003 | Governor of Louisiana, 1996–2004[44] | ||
(1895–1984) | 2014 | Louisiana Supreme Court chief justice, speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana[45] | ||
(1906–1980) | 1999 | Louisiana Elections Commissioner, 1959–1979[46] | ||
(1934–2016) | 2008 | Lieutenant governor of Louisiana, 1980–1988[47] | ||
(1908–1979) | 2006 | Louisiana state Senator and Representative[48] | ||
(1942–) | 2003 | Sheriff of Saint Martin Parish, President of the Louisiana Sheriff's Association, National Sheriff of the Year in 1996[49] | ||
(1934–2022) | 2019 | Louisiana State Representative for Lafayette Parish from 1980 to 1989; print and broadcast journalist | ||
(1900–1957) | 2011 | Louisiana Register of the State Land Office, 1932, first woman to attain statewide elected office in Louisiana[50] | ||
(1915–2005) | 1995 | Attorney, executive counsel to Governors John McKeithen and Edwin Edwards, helped draft the current Louisiana Constitution[51] | ||
(1914–2008) | 2002 | Louisiana state police superintendent[52] | ||
(1929–2014) | 2014 | Considered the youngest member ever elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives[53] | ||
(1909–2005) | 2004 | Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance[54] | ||
(1938–2005) | 2002 | Louisiana state representative | ||
(1933–2006) | 1995 | Journalist | ||
(1942–) | 2019 | Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1988 to 1992; former Louisiana Secretary of State and state senator from St. Martin Parish | ||
(1939–2021) | 2013 | Sheriff of Grant Parish, 1976–2008; member of Louisiana Board of Pardons and Paroles | ||
(1901–1979) | 2012 | United States House of Representatives[55] | ||
(1936–) | 2012 | Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1972-80 | ||
(1938–2014) | 2001 | Journalist and chairman of the Department of Journalism at Louisiana Tech University[56] | ||
(1933–2019) | 2006 | Louisiana State Senate President from 2004 to 2008; physician in Bunkie[57] | ||
(1952–) | 2008 | Democratic Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, 2005–2016[58] | ||
(1941–) | 2012 | United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 5th congressional district, 1977–1993[59] | ||
(1928–2001) | 2014 | Member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, 1964–1972; nephew of Huey and Earl Long; cousin of Russell B. Long | ||
(1940–) | 2003 | Director Johnson Space Center, Agency Representative at the White House in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy[60] Sister of former U.S. Representative Buddy Leach | ||
(1944–2023) | 2016 | Attorney General of Louisiana, 1992–2004[61] | ||
(1947–) | 2000 | U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, 1991–2009[62] | ||
(1918–2013) | 2017 | Civil rights activist from Baton Rouge; early organizer of Southern Christian Leadership Conference[63] | ||
(1960–) | 2009 | U.S. representative for Louisiana's 7th congressional district (since disbanded), 1997–2005; lost the 2004 U.S. Senate election to David Vitter[64] | ||
(1932–) | 1997 | United States senator, 1972–1997[65] | ||
(1897–1978) | 2016 | Governor of Louisiana, 1940–1944[66] | ||
(1934–2019) | 2007 | Lawyer, lobbyist, political appointee[67] | ||
(1952–) | 2005 | District attorney of Orleans Parish, 2003–2007[68] | ||
(1935–2023) | 2008 | Career diplomat and professor of the Practice of Public Policy Studies at Duke University[69] | ||
(1931–2020) | 2005 | Mayor of Eunice, 1981–1994; state representative for St. Landry Parish, 1968–1972; former member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and the Board of Trustees for Colleges and Universities[70] | ||
(1941–) | 2008 | State senator from Natchitoches, 1976–1996[71] | ||
(1926–2003) | 1999 | Journalist[72] | ||
(1902–1988) | 2001 | Governor of Louisiana, 1952–1956[73] | ||
(1945–) | 2011 | Chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 2009–2013; associate justice, 1992–2009[74] | ||
(1943–) | 2000 | Associate justice, Louisiana Supreme Court, 1997–2016[75] | ||
(1912–1993) | 2012 | Editor and columnist for The Alexandria Daily Town Talk[76] | ||
(1927–2016) | 2003 | State representative from Avoyelles Parish and mayor of Marksville | ||
(1943–2018) | 2018 | Louisiana state representative for Jefferson Parish, 1972–1976; 1980–2008; longest-serving Republican member of the state House[77] | ||
(1955–) | 2007 | United States Senator 1997–2014; state treasurer, 1887–1996; state representative, 1980–1988[78] | ||
(1930–2022) | 2004 | United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1979–1981; Mayor of New Orleans, 1970–1978; state representative, 1960–1966[79] Mayor of New Orleans | ||
(1953–2007) | 2008 | Baton Rouge–based journalist [80] | ||
(1894–1971) | 1993 | Louisiana state senator | ||
(1932–2007) | 2001 | Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, 1980-2007; father of current Jefferson Parish president Cynthia Lee-Sheng [81] | ||
(1921–2015) | 2009 | Evangeline Parish Clerk of Court, 1956–2012 | ||
(1943–) | 2003 | United States House of Representatives[82] | ||
(1895–1960) | 1993 | Governor of Louisiana[83] | ||
(1923–1985) | 1994 | United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 8th congressional district, 1963–1965; 1973–1985[84] | ||
(1893–1935) | 1993 | Governor of Louisiana; United States Senator [85] | ||
(1931–2016) | 2000 | Louisiana State Representative from Natchitoches | ||
(1892–1970) | 2014 | U.S. Senator upon the death of her husband, Huey P. Long; mother of U.S. Senator Russell B. Long | ||
(1918–2003) | 1993 | United States Senator [86] | ||
(1928–2006) | 1998 | United States House of Representatives[87] | ||
(1929–2004) | 2005 | Louisiana Inspector General, investigative journalist in Shreveport and Baton Rouge[88] | ||
(1929–2021) | 2014 | First person to serve as mayor of two Louisiana cities, Houma and Mandeville | ||
(1894–1973) | 2010 | Chair, state Republican Party, candidate for governor, 1964[89] | ||
(1948–2014) | 2015 | Louisiana journalist who exposed corruption in politics and government; known for the book The Last Hayride | ||
(1958–) | 2014 | Manship Chair in Journalism at Louisiana State University; aide to U.S. Sens. Russell Long and John Breaux; communications director, Gov. Kathleen Blanco; political historian[90] | ||
(1911–1990) | 2001 | Louisiana Secretary of State [91] | ||
(1929–2003) | 2015 | District attorney of Bossier and Webster parishes, judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal; attorney in Minden[92] | ||
(1918–1999) | 1993 | Governor of Louisiana, 1964–1972; former member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and Louisiana House of Representatives[93] | ||
(1946–2005) | 2006 | Louisiana Secretary of State[94] | ||
(1926–2002) | 2001 | U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 8th congressional district, 1958–1963[95] | ||
(1937–) | 2012 | Former Louisiana State Representative from Bossier Parish[96] | ||
(1939–) | 2002 | United States Representative from Louisiana's 6th congressional district, 1975–1987[97] | ||
(1929–1989) | 1993 | Mayor of New Orleans[98] | ||
(1912–1964) | 1995 | Mayor of New Orleans, 1946–1962; three-time candidate for governor | ||
(1929–2016) | 2004 | Louisiana state senator from Lafayette | ||
(1934–2020) | 2011 | Louisiana Superintendent of Education, 1976–1984[99] | ||
(1942–) | 2017 | Mayor of West Monroe, 1978–2018 | ||
(1930–2012) | 2010 | State senator from St. Bernard Parish | ||
(1929–2006) | 2010 | Chair, state Republican Party [100] | ||
(1956–) | 2007 | Administrator of NASA[101] | ||
(1935–2014) | 2008 | Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry, 1980–2008[102] | ||
(1932–1978) | 2009 | Sheriff of Iberville Parish[103] | ||
(1875–1948) | 1998 | United States Senator[104] | ||
(1920–2015) | 1996 | First woman to serve as Louisiana State Treasurer, 1968–1987[105] | ||
(1923–1980) | 2014 | Louisiana state senator from Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, 1964–1976; first president of the University of Louisiana System trustees, 1975–1980[106] [107] | ||
(1891–1969) | 1996 | Political boss[108] | ||
(1917–2013) | 2011 | State budget director[109] | ||
(1938–2007) | 2006 | State Superintendent of Education, 1996–2007; state senator, 1979–1996; state representative, 1976–1979[110] | ||
(1865–1932) | 2015 | Member of the Louisiana State Senate from Pointe Coupee Parish from 1912 to 1920; district attorney and newspaper publisher; member of the Scott family[111] | ||
(1942–2016) | 2008 | Mayor of Alexandria, 1986–2006; state senator, 1976–1984; state representative, 1972–1976 | ||
(1916–2008) | 1993 | Louisiana State Senator from Washington Parish | ||
(1926–2013) | 2004 | City judge in Crowley who spearheaded the state's Presidential campaign for John F. Kennedy; his daughter Victoria Reggie Kennedy is the widow of U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy[112] | ||
(1938–2020) | 1999 | Retired director of Loyola University Institute of Politics [113] | ||
(1909–1997) | 2004 | State representative and state senator[114] | ||
(1943–2021) | 2000 | Governor of Louisiana, 1988–1992; U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district, 1981–1988[115] | ||
(1920–2012) | 2013 | Political consultant in Shreveport[116] | ||
(1943–) | 2008 | former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives | ||
(1931–2012) | 2002 | Mayor of Natchitoches[117] | ||
(1904–1992) | 2001 | Mayor of New Orleans, 1962–1970[118] | ||
(1946–) | 1997 | First woman Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, 1992–1996[119] | ||
(1947–2009) | 2015 | Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Alexandria who worked for the four-year status of Louisiana State University at Alexandria | ||
(1916–2001) | 2015 | Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, based in Alexandria; ordered extensive busing in 1981 to compel racial integration of public schools | ||
(1923–2015) | 2004 | Louisiana State Senator from District 38 (Caddo and De Soto parishes), 1976–1980[120] | ||
(1939–1990) | 2005 | Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey
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(1942–2012) | 2011 | Lobbyist[122] | ||
(1951–) | 2003 | Secretary Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections from 1992 to 2008[123] | ||
(1941–2020) | 2006 | State representative for Calcasieu Parish, 1988–2004; member of the Louisiana Board of Regents, 2007–2011[124] | ||
(1940–2022) | 2013 | Regional and national Democratic political consultant, formerly based in Baton Rouge[125] | ||
(1943–) | 2003 | U.S. representative from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, 1980–2005[126] | ||
(1937–2004) | 2009 | Businessman [127] | ||
(1784–1850) | 1995 | President of the United States, 1849–1850[128] | ||
(1941–) | 2005 | State senator from Richland Parish; former state representative[129] | ||
(1928–2009) | 1997 | Governor of Louisiana, 1980–1984; U.S. representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, 1973–1980[130] | ||
(1927–2012) | 2010 | State representative from Assumption Parish, 1955–1976 | ||
(1918–2007) | 1998 | U.S. representative from Louisiana's 4th congressional district, 1961–1979[131] | ||
(1923–2016) | 2002 | Louisiana State Representative from East Baton Rouge Parish, 1964–1972[132] | ||
(1937–2012) | 2004 | Journalist; bureau chief in Baton Rouge of the New Orleans Times-Picayune (1980–2002)[133] | ||
(1933–2018) | 1996 | Radio host, writer, political consultant[134] | ||
(1909–1979) | 1998 | 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Huey Long (1969)[135] | ||
(1844–1921) | 1995 | Chief Justice of the United States, 1910–1921[136] | ||
(1948–2024) | 2019 | Founder of Acadian Ambulance in Lafayette | ||