|
71st Louisiana Legislature
The 71st Louisiana Legislature is the current sitting of the Louisiana State Legislature. House Members Senate Members References See also {{Louisiana Louisiana legislative sessions Louisiana State Legislature 2022 U.S. legislative sessions 2020s in Louisiana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana State Legislature
The Louisiana State Legislature (french: Législature d'État de Louisiane) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is a bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana State Senate with 39 senators. Members of each house are elected from single-member districts of roughly equal populations. The Louisiana State Legislature meets in the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge. Early history Jean Noel Destréhan and Allan Bowie Magruder was selected by the joint legislature to be Louisiana's first United States Senators on 3 September 1812. Destréhan resigned within a month and was replaced with Thomas Posey. Terms Members of both houses of the legislature serve a four-year term, with a term limit of three terms (twelve years). Term limits were passed by state voters in a constitutional referendum in 1995 and were subsequently added as Article III, §4, of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bienville Parish, Louisiana
Bienville Parish (french: link=no, Paroisse de Bienville, ) is a parish located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, the population was 12,981. The parish seat is Arcadia. The highest natural point in Louisiana, a hill known as Mt. Driskill, in elevation, is located in north central Bienville Parish. The mountain is located on private land with public access by walking trail. It is named for James Christopher Driskill, a 19th-century landowner. Nearby is Jordan Mountain, with an elevation of . Lake Bistineau and Lake Bistineau State Park embrace parts of Bienville and neighboring Webster and Bossier parishes. History In the 1830s, Ruben Drake moved his family from South Carolina to what he named Mount Lebanon, the first permanent settlement in the parish. As the Drakes were devout Baptists, they established a church and school, which evolved into Mount Lebanon University, the forerunner of Louisiana Christian University in Pin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Fisher (Louisiana Politician)
Adrian Fisher is an American politician, businessman, and pastor serving as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 16th district. He assumed office on December 6, 2021. Education Fisher earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Southern University and a Master of Science in community counseling from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Career Outside of politics, Fisher is a licensed counselor and operates a behavioral health business. He was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives The Louisiana House of Representatives (french: link=no, Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 repr ... in November 2021 and assumed office on December 6, 2021. References Living people Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives Southern University alumni University of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foy Gadberry
Foy Bryan Gadberry is a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 15, which encompasses Calhoun, Louisiana, Calhoun, Claiborne, Louisiana, Claiborne, and parts of West Monroe, Louisiana, West Monroe. On January 8, 2020, Gadberry succeeded outgoing Republican Representative Frank Hoffman (politician), Frank Hoffman, who was term limited and ineligible to run for re-election. He won the 2019 election with 8,092 votes (53.2%), beating fellow Republican Justin Tidwell, who received 7,114 votes (46.8%). He also won the Blanket primary with 4,881 votes (37.8%), beating Tidwell who got 3,815 votes (29.5%), Drake Graves with 2,821 votes (21.9%), and lastly, Ryan Reid with 1,397 votes (10.8%). Gadberry resides in West Monroe, Louisiana, West Monroe, and is an engineering consultant. References Living people Republican Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives 21st-century American politicians Year of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana's 15th House District
Louisiana's 15th House district is one of 105 Louisiana House of Representatives districts. It is currently represented by Republican Foy Gadberry of West Monroe. Geography HD15 includes the cities of Calhoun, Claiborne, and parts of Bawcomville, Brownsville, and West Monroe. Election results {, class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:95%;" !Year !Opponent !Party !Percent !Candidate !Party !Percent , - , 2011 , , Frank Hoffmann , , Republican , , 81% , , Wayne Trichel , , Democratic , , 19% , - , 2015 , , Frank Hoffmann , , Republican , , 100% , , , , , , , - , 2019 , , Foy Gadberry Foy Bryan Gadberry is a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 15, which encompasses Calhoun, Louisiana, Calhoun, Claiborne, Louisiana, Claiborne, and parts of West Monroe, Louisi ... , , Republican , , 53.2% , , Justin Tidwell , , Republican , {{Party shading/Republican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
Morehouse Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 27,979. The parish seat is Bastrop. The parish was formed in 1844. Morehouse Parish comprises the Bastrop, LA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Monroe– Ruston–Bastrop, LA Combined Statistical Area. History Francois Bonaventure built a house on 2000~acre tract in 1775 in Bastrop, Louisiana. Morehouse Parish is named after Colonel Abraham Morehouse, who served in the Revolutionary War. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, Morehouse County was a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan. During the trial for the 1922 Lynchings of Mer Rouge, Louisiana, many witnesses testified that county officials including Sheriff Fred Carpenter, his deputies, the district attorney, and the postmaster were Klan members. However the grand jury, itself likely made up largely of Klan members, dismissed the case. Geography According to the U.S. Censu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Echols
Michael Echols is an American politician from the state of Louisiana. A Republican, he represents the 14th district in the Louisiana House of Representatives. Background Echols is from Bastrop, Louisiana, and lives in Monroe. He earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He served on the Monroe City Council before he was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives The Louisiana House of Representatives (french: link=no, Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 repr ... in the 2019 elections. References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Echols, Michael Living people People from Bastrop, Louisiana People from Monroe, Louisiana University of Louisiana at Monroe alumni Louisiana city council members Republican Party members of the Louisiana House of Represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winn Parish, Louisiana
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. Winn is separated from Natchitoches Parish along U.S. Highway 71 by Saline Bayou, the first blackwater protected waterway in the American South. History Winn Parish was established in 1852 from lands which had belonged to the parishes of Catahoula, Natchitoches, and Rapides. During the Civil War, David Pierson, a young attorney, was elected to represent the parish at the Secession Convention called in January 1861 in Baton Rouge by Governor Thomas Overton Moore. Pierson voted against secession and refused, along with several others, to change his "no" vote at the end of the process when asked to do so to make the final tally unanimous. That these conscripts refused to fight for the Confederacy is understandable considering that Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Ouachita Parish ( French: ''Paroisse d'Ouachita'') is located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 160,368. The parish seat is Monroe. The parish was formed in 1807. Ouachita Parish is part of the Monroe, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located here is Watson Brake, the oldest indigenous earthwork mound complex in North America. It was built around 3500 BCE, making it older than the Ancient Egyptian pyramids or Britain's Stonehenge. It is on privately owned land and not available for public viewing. History Prehistory Ouachita Parish was the home to many succeeding Native American groups in the thousands of years before Europeans began to settle here. Peoples of the Marksville culture, Troyville culture, Coles Creek culture and Plaquemine culture built villages and earthwork mound sites throughout the area. Notable examples include the Filhiol Mound Site, located on a natural levee of the Ouachita River. The ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Parish, Louisiana
Jackson Parish (French: ''Paroisse de Jackson'') is a parish in the northern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,031. The parish seat is Jonesboro. The parish was formed in 1845 from parts of Claiborne, Ouachita, and Union Parishes. In the twentieth century, this part of the state had several small industrial mill towns, such as Jonesboro. East of Jonesboro is the Jimmie Davis State Park, which includes Caney Lake Reservoir. History Jackson Parish was founded in 1845 after Indian Removal and named for President Andrew Jackson. Civil War During the American Civil War Confederate General Richard Taylor sent five companies into Jackson and Winn parishes to arrest conscripts who failed to report for duty, and to halt jayhawker groups in the area. 20th century to present Jonesboro became an industrial mill town in the 20th century, producing lumber and turpentine products from the pine forests. Industrialization stimulated its grow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McFarland (politician)
Jack Gideon McFarland (born November 18, 1969) 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 A nonpartisan blanket primary is a primary election in which all candidates for the same elected office run against each other at once, regardless of the political party. Partisan elections are, on the other hand, segregated by political party. ... held on October 24, 2015. In that same primary, McFarland, with 7,719 votes (60.3 percent), defeated his Democratic opponent, Philip Lawrence, who polled 5,091 votes (39.7 percent). References 1969 births Living people People from Winnfield, Louisiana People from Crossett, Arkansas Republican Party membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Parish, Louisiana
Union Parish (French language, French: ''Paroisse de l'Union'') is a List of parishes in Louisiana, parish located in the north central section of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 21,107. The parish seat is Farmerville, Louisiana, Farmerville. The parish was created on March 13, 1839, from a section of Ouachita Parish. Its boundaries have changed four times since then (in 1845, 1846, 1867, and 1873, respectively). Union Parish is part of the Monroe, Louisiana, Monroe, LA Monroe, Louisiana metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of , of which is land and (3.1%) is water. Geographically north central Louisiana, Union Parish more closely resembles Lincoln Parish, to which Union is deeply tied culturally, politically, and educationally. Union Parish, along with Lincoln Parish to the southwest and Union County, Arkansas to the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
