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Mike Johnson
James Michael Johnson is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 56th speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he is in his fifth House term, having represented Louisiana's 4th congressional district since 2017.
Huey Long
American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator (1893-1935)
Judah P. Benjamin
American politician and lawyer (1811-1884)
John Bel Edwards
American politician and lawyer, Louisiana
Jeff Landry
American politician (born 1970)
Edward Douglass White Jr.
chief justice of the United States from 1910 to 1921
P. B. S. Pinchback
American politician (1837–1921)
James Carville
American political consultant
Edwin Edwards
American politician, including Governor of Louisiana (1927-2021)
Russell B. Long
American politician (1918–2003)
Samuel D. McEnery
American politician (1837-1910)
Newton C. Blanchard
American politician (1849-1922)
John Breaux
American politician
Murphy J. Foster
American politician (1930-2020)
Francis T. Nicholls
Confederate Army general, lawyer, judge and American politician (1834-1912)
Cleo Fields
American politician (born 1962)
Alvin Olin King
American politician (1890-1958)
Pierre Soulé
American politician (1801-1870)
James B. Eustis
Confederate Army officer and American politician (1834-1899)
J. Bennett Johnston
American politician (1932–2025)
John McKeithen
American governor of Louisiana (1918-1999)
Josiah S. Johnston
American politician (1784-1833)
Oramel H. Simpson
American politician (1870-1932)
Stephan Kinsella
American lawyer
Luther E. Hall
American politician (1869-1921)
Robert F. Broussard
American politician (1864-1918)
John H. Overton
American politician (1875-1948)
Moon Landrieu
American politician (1930–2022)
Edwin S. Broussard
American politician (1874-1934)
Stephen Mallory II
American politician (1848-1907)
Donelson Caffery
American lawyer, and politician (1835-1906)
Sam H. Jones
46th Governor of Louisiana (1897-1978)
Mitch Landrieu
American politician (born 1960)
Dave Treen
American politician (1928–2009)
Victoria Reggie Kennedy
United States Ambassador to Austria since 2022
Solomon W. Downs
American politician (1801–1854)
Jared Y. Sanders
American politician (1869-1944)
Joseph E. Ransdell
American politician and lawyer (1858-1954)
Walter Guion
American politician (1849-1927)
John Black
American politician from Mississippi (1800-1854)
John Thornton
United States Senator from Louisiana (1846-1917)
John Henderson
lawyer and U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1797-1857)
Alexander Barrow
American politician (1801–1846)
Alexander Porter
American politician (1785-1844)
George A. Waggaman
American politician (1782-1843)
Don Cazayoux
American politician
Overton Brooks
American politician (1897–1961)
Jim McCrery
American politician and lobbyist
Gillis William Long
American politician (1923–1985)
Riley Joseph Wilson
American politician (1871-1946)
James Brown
U.S. Senator from Louisiana and Minister to France (1766-1835)
James Walter Elder
American politician (1882-1941)
James Hobson Morrison
American politician (1908-2000)
Andrew Price
American politician (1854-1909)
J. Smith Young
Confederate Army officer and politician (1834-1916)
Arsène Pujo
American politician
Jay Dardenne
American politician in Louisiana (born 1954)
Edwin E. Willis
American politician (1904-1972)
Joseph P. Newsham
Union Army officer (1837-1919)
David S. Kaufman
U.S. Representative from Texas (1813-1851)