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The secretary of state of Louisiana ( French: Secrétaire d'État de la Louisiane) is one of the elected constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Louisiana and serves as the head of the Louisiana Department of State. The position was created by Article 4, Section 7 of the Louisiana Constitution . The current secretary of state is Nancy Landry .
Democratic. Other political. affiliations. Independent ( 1972) Spouse. Marjorie Funderburk. Education. High Point College, Louisiana State University. John Julian McKeithen (May 28, 1918 – June 4, 1999) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th governor of Louisiana from 1964 to 1972.
Port Eads, Louisiana. / 29.01559806°N 89.17104889°W / 29.01559806; -89.17104889. Port Eads is a populated place [1] at the southern tip of the Mississippi River, also known as South Pass, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. It was designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of ...
Louisiana entrance sign off Interstate 20 in Madison Parish east of Tallulah. Louisiana [pronunciation 1] (French: Louisiane ⓘ; Spanish: Luisiana; Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east.
The United States District Court for the District of Louisiana was established on April 8, 1812, by 2 Stat. 701, [4] [5] several weeks before Louisiana was formally admitted as a state of the union. The District was thereafter subdivided and reformed several times. It was first subdivided into Eastern and Western Districts on March 3, 1823, by ...
Acadiana ( French and Louisiana French: L'Acadiane ), also known as the Cajun Country ( Louisiana French: Le Pays Cadjin, Spanish: País Cajún ), is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state's Francophone population. [1]
Louisiana is a South Central U.S. state, with a 2020 U.S. census resident population of 4,657,757, and apportioned population of 4,661,468. Much of the state's population is concentrated in southern Louisiana in the Greater New Orleans, Florida Parishes, and Acadiana regions, with the remainder in North and Central Louisiana's major metropolitan areas (Shreveport-Bossier City; Monroe-West ...
Exhibit inside the Slavery Museum at Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches ...