Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame


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.
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Hall of Fame inductees

NameImageBirth–deathYearArea of achievement
2003Former speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1984–1988; 1992–1996; Louisiana State Senate President, 2012-2020
2018Louisiana state representative for Orleans Parish; figure in the civil rights movement
2010Former 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
1994U.S. representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district, 1937–1953
1997Governor of Louisiana, 1932–1936
2009State representative from Concordia Parish, 1984–1992; Acting Louisiana Secretary of State, 2005–2006
2012Mayor of Pineville, 1970–1998
2007State senator, 1991–2008; state representative, 1976–1991; temporary member of the New Orleans City Council, 2012–2013
2008Lobbyist; U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 6th congressional district, 1987–2008; state representative from Baton Rouge, 1972–1987
2002Former member, secretary, and chairman of the Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
2013Louisiana State Senator, 1964–1972; 1976–1988
2005United States Secret Service agent who accompanied President Richard M. Nixon to China; operates commercial horticultural nursery in Forest Hill in Rapides Parish
1996African American civil rights attorney from Alexandria, Dean of Southern University Law Center from 1972 to 1974
2006Governor of Louisiana, 2004–2008; Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, 1996–2004; Louisiana Public Service Commissioner, 1989–1996; state representative from Lafayette, 1984–1989
2019Academic administrator and football coach; "First Gentleman of Louisiana", 2004–2008, while his wife, Kathleen, was governor
1993U.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
1994U.S. representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, 1973–1991]; United States Ambassador to the Holy See, 1997–2001
2004Louisiana state senator from Ouachita and Richland parishes, 1952–1956
2002Mayor of Lafayette, 1972–1980; 1992–1996
2002Historian, state representative, 1929–1930; political crony of Huey Long
2003United States Senator, 1987 to 2005; U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 7th congressional district, 1972–1987
2011Political consultant; state senator from Concordia Parish, 1972–1980; Louisiana secretary of state, 1980–1988; Louisiana insurance commissioner, 1991–2000
2014State representative from Orleans Parish, 1952–1960; Democratic national committeeman, 1964 to 1972; member of Louisiana State Board of Education, 1960s
2015Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Orleans Parish, 1976–2007
1994President, Louisiana AFL–CIO, 1956–1997
2015Attorney General of Louisiana, 2008–2016; former district attorney in Madison Parish, 1979–2008
2000Diplomat
2002Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, 1995–2016; founder of Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum
2009State Senator, 1976–2003; member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission since 2003; candidate for governor, 2007 and U.S. Senator, 2016
1996Manager of Bill Clinton's Presidential campaigns, television news media commentator
2013State representative, 1972–1980; state senator from Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, 1980–1991
2013State senator from Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes from 1992 to 1996
2013State senator from Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes since 2009
2003Singer and political candidate
1993First Governor of Louisiana, as well as Governor of the Territory of Orleans
2007Former Louisiana Commissioner of Higher Education 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.
2013Mayor of Vidalia, 1992–2016
2003District attorney of Orleans Parish, 1973–2003; investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy; father of singer Harry Connick Jr.
2006Political analyst
2018Lieutenant governor of Louisiana, 2010–2016; Louisiana secretary of state, 2006–2010; state senator from Baton Rouge, 1992–2006; Louisiana Commissioner of Administration, since 2016
2018Louisiana State Representative for Orleans and Jefferson parishes, 1980–1996
1993Governor of Louisiana
1993Editorial cartoonist, Shreveport Times
2007Chair, state Republican Party, 1968–1972
2007Republican National Committeewoman
2013Mayor, Bossier City, 1989–2005
2004Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 2000–2004
2015State representative for Ascension Parish from 1976 to 2004
2017State representative, House Speaker, and district judge from Monroe
2002Louisiana state representative, 1940–1948; lieutenant governor, 1948–1952; state superintendent of education, 1964–1972
1999Sheriff of St. Landry Parish, Huey Long protΓ©gΓ©
2007State representative
1993Governor of Louisiana, 1972–80, 1984–88, 1992–96; U.S. Representative, 1965-72
2014Governor 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
1994United States senator
2015Member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Franklin Parish; Winnsboro cotton merchant and deputy state insurance commissioner
2010State senator
1999Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, 1972–1980
2005President of Honduras
2005First Lady of Honduras, humanitarian worker
1997Governor of Louisiana, 1892–1900
2003Governor of Louisiana, 1996–2004
2014Louisiana Supreme Court chief justice, speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
1999Louisiana Elections Commissioner, 1959–1979
2008Lieutenant governor of Louisiana, 1980–1988
2006Louisiana state Senator and Representative
2003Sheriff of Saint Martin Parish, President of the Louisiana Sheriff's Association, National Sheriff of the Year in 1996
2019Louisiana State Representative for Lafayette Parish from 1980 to 1989; print and broadcast journalist
2011Louisiana Register of the State Land Office, 1932, first woman to attain statewide elected office in Louisiana
1995Attorney, executive counsel to Governors John McKeithen and Edwin Edwards, helped draft the current Louisiana Constitution
2002Louisiana state police superintendent
2014Considered the youngest member ever elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives
2004Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance
2002Louisiana state representative
1995Journalist
2019Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1988 to 1992; former Louisiana Secretary of State and state senator from St. Martin Parish
2013Sheriff of Grant Parish, 1976–2008; member of Louisiana Board of Pardons and Paroles
2012United States House of Representatives
2012Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1972-80
2001Journalist and chairman of the Department of Journalism at Louisiana Tech University
2006Louisiana State Senate President from 2004 to 2008; physician in Bunkie
2008Democratic Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, 2005–2016
2012United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 5th congressional district, 1977–1993
2014Member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, 1964–1972; nephew of Huey and Earl Long; cousin of Russell B. Long
2003Director 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 Sister of former U.S. Representative Buddy Leach
2016Attorney General of Louisiana, 1992–2004
2000U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, 1991–2009
2017Civil rights activist from Baton Rouge; early organizer of Southern Christian Leadership Conference
2009U.S. representative for Louisiana's 7th congressional district, 1997–2005; lost the 2004 U.S. Senate election to David Vitter
1997United States senator, 1972–1997
2016Governor of Louisiana, 1940–1944
2007Lawyer, lobbyist, political appointee
2005District attorney of Orleans Parish, 2003–2007
2008Career diplomat and professor of the Practice of Public Policy Studies at Duke University
2005Mayor 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
2008State senator from Natchitoches, 1976–1996
1999Journalist
2001Governor of Louisiana, 1952–1956
2011Chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 2009–2013; associate justice, 1992–2009
2000Associate justice, Louisiana Supreme Court, 1997–2016
2012Editor and columnist for The Alexandria Daily Town Talk
2003State representative from Avoyelles Parish and mayor of Marksville
2018Louisiana state representative for Jefferson Parish, 1972–1976; 1980–2008; longest-serving Republican member of the state House
2007United States Senator 1997–2014; state treasurer, 1987–1996; state representative, 1980–1988
2004United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1979–1981; Mayor of New Orleans, 1970–1978; state representative, 1960–1966 Mayor of New Orleans
2008Baton Rouge–based journalist
1993Louisiana state senator
2001Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, 1980-2007; father of current Jefferson Parish president Cynthia Lee-Sheng
2009Evangeline Parish Clerk of Court, 1956–2012
2003United States House of Representatives
1993Governor of Louisiana
1994United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 8th congressional district, 1963–1965; 1973–1985
1993Governor of Louisiana; United States Senator
2000Louisiana State Representative from Natchitoches
2014U.S. Senator upon the death of her husband, Huey P. Long; mother of U.S. Senator Russell B. Long
1993United States Senator
1998United States House of Representatives
2005Louisiana Inspector General, investigative journalist in Shreveport and Baton Rouge
2014First person to serve as mayor of two Louisiana cities, Houma and Mandeville
2010Chair, state Republican Party, candidate for governor, 1964
2015Louisiana journalist who exposed corruption in politics and government; known for the book The Last Hayride
2014Manship Chair in Journalism at Louisiana State University; aide to U.S. Sens. Russell Long and John Breaux; communications director, Gov. Kathleen Blanco; political historian
2001Louisiana Secretary of State
2015District attorney of Bossier and Webster parishes, judge of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal; attorney in Minden
1993Governor of Louisiana, 1964–1972; former member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and Louisiana House of Representatives
2006Louisiana Secretary of State
2001U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 8th congressional district, 1958–1963
2012Former Louisiana State Representative from Bossier Parish
2002United States Representative from Louisiana's 6th congressional district, 1975–1987
1993Mayor of New Orleans
1995Mayor of New Orleans, 1946–1962; three-time candidate for governor
2004Louisiana state senator from Lafayette
2011Louisiana Superintendent of Education, 1976–1984
2017Mayor of West Monroe, 1978–2018
2010State senator from St. Bernard Parish
2010Chair, state Republican Party
2007Administrator of NASA
2008Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry, 1980–2008
2009Sheriff of Iberville Parish
1998United States Senator
1996First woman to serve as Louisiana State Treasurer, 1968–1987
2014Louisiana state senator from Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, 1964–1976; first president of the University of Louisiana System trustees, 1975–1980
1996Political boss
2011State budget director
2006State Superintendent of Education, 1996–2007; state senator, 1979–1996; state representative, 1976–1979
2015Member of the Louisiana State Senate from Pointe Coupee Parish from 1912 to 1920; district attorney and newspaper publisher; member of the Scott family
2008Mayor of Alexandria, 1986–2006; state senator, 1976–1984; state representative, 1972–1976
1993Louisiana State Senator from Washington Parish
2004City 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
1999Retired director of Loyola University Institute of Politics
2004State representative and state senator
2000Governor of Louisiana, 1988–1992; U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district, 1981–1988
2013Political consultant in Shreveport
2008former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives
2002Mayor of Natchitoches
2001Mayor of New Orleans, 1962–1970
1997First woman Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, 1992–1996
2015Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Alexandria who worked for the four-year status of Louisiana State University at Alexandria
2015Judge 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
2004Louisiana State Senator from District 38 (Caddo and De Soto parishes), 1976–1980
2005Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey; daughter of Hale and Lindy Boggs
2011Lobbyist
2003Secretary Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections from 1992 to 2008
2006State representative for Calcasieu Parish, 1988–2004; member of the Louisiana Board of Regents, 2007–2011
2013Regional and national Democratic political consultant, formerly based in Baton Rouge
2003U.S. representative from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, 1980–2005
2009Businessman
1995President of the United States, 1849–1850
2005State senator from Richland Parish; former state representative
1997Governor of Louisiana, 1980–1984; U.S. representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, 1973–1980
2010State representative from Assumption Parish, 1955–1976
1998U.S. representative from Louisiana's 4th congressional district, 1961–1979
2002Louisiana State Representative from East Baton Rouge Parish, 1964–1972
2004Journalist; bureau chief in Baton Rouge of the New Orleans Times-Picayune
1996Radio host, writer, political consultant
19981970 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Huey Long
1995Chief Justice of the United States, 1910–1921
2019Founder of Acadian Ambulance in Lafayette