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A list of governors from the state of Louisiana.[1][2]
French Governors of Louisiana, First Period
| Name | Years
|
| Sauvole de la Villantry
| 1699-1701
|
| Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne De Bienville
| 1701-1713, 1716-1717, 1718-1724, 1733-1743
|
| Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
| 1713-1716
|
| Jean-Michel de Lepinay
| 1717-1718
|
| Pierre Duque de Boisbriant
| 1724-1726
|
| Etienne Perier
| 1726-1733
|
| Pierre-Francois de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal
| 1743-1753
|
| Louis Billouart
| 1753-1763
|
| Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie
| 1763-1765
|
| Charles Philippe Aubry
| 1765-1769
|
Spanish Governors of Louisiana
| Name | Years
|
| Antonia de Ulloa
| 1766-1768
|
| Alejandro O'Reilly
| 1769
|
| Luis de Unzaga
| 1770-1777
|
| Bernardo de Galvez
| 1777-1785
|
| Esteban Rodriguez Miro
| 1785-1791
|
| Francisco Luis Hector de Carondelet
| 1791-1797
|
| Manuel Gayoso de Lemos
| 1797-1799
|
| Sebastian de la Puerta y O'Farril
| 1799-1801
|
| Juan Manuel de Salcedo
| 1801-1803
|
French Governors of Louisiana, Second Period
| Name | Years
|
| Pierre Clement de Laussat
| 1803
|
State Governors of Louisiana
| Name | Party | Years
|
| William C. C. Claiborne
| Democratic Republican
| 1803-1816[3]
|
| Jaques Phillippe Villere
| Democratic Republican
| 1816-1820
|
| Thomas Bolling Robertson
| National Republican
| 1820-1824
|
| Henry S. Thibodaux
| National Republican
| 1824
|
| Henry S. Johnson
| National Republican
| 1824-1828
|
| Pierre Auguste Bourguigon Derbigny
| Whig/National Republican
| 1828-1829
|
| Armand Julie Beauvais
| Whig
| 1829-1830
|
| Jaques Dupre
| Anti-Jacksonian Whig
| 1830-1831
|
| Andre Bienvenu Roman
| Whig
| 1831-1835, 1839-1843
|
| Edward Douglass White
| Whig
| 1835-1839
|
| Alexander Mouton
| Democrat
| 1843-1846
|
| Isaac Johnson
| Democrat
| 1846-1850
|
| Joseph M. Walker
| Democrat
| 1850-1853
|
| Paul O. Hebert
| Democrat
| 1853-1856
|
| Robert C. Wickcliffe
| Democrat
| 1856-1860
|
| Thomas Overton Moore[4]
| Democrat
| 1860-1864
|
| Henry Watkins Allen[5]
| Democrat
| 1864-1865
|
| George F. Shepley[6]
| Unionist Democrat
| 1862-1864
|
| Michael Hahn[7]
| Republican
| 1864-1865
|
| James Madison Wells
| Republican
| 1865-1867
|
| Benjamin Franklin Flanders
| Repblican
| 1867-1868
|
| Joshua Baker
| Republican
| 1868
|
| Henry Clay Warmoth
| Republican
| 1868-1872
|
| John McEnery
| Democrat/Liberal Republican
| 1872
|
| P. B. S. Pinchback
| Republican
| 1872-1873
|
| William Pitt Kellogg
| Republican
| 1873-1877
|
| Francis T. Nicholls
| Democrat
| 1877-1880, 1888-1892
|
| Louis Alfred Wiltz
| Democrat
| 1880-1881
|
| Samuel Douglas McEnery
| Democrat
| 1881-1888
|
| Murphy James Foster
| Democrat
| 1892-1900
|
| William Wright Heard
| Democrat
| 1900-1904
|
| Newton C. Blanchard
| Democrat
| 1904-1908
|
| Jared Y. Sanders
| Democrat
| 1908-1912
|
| Luther E. Hall
| Democrat
| 1912-1916
|
| Ruffin G. Pleasant
| Democrat
| 1916-1920
|
| John M. Parker
| Democrat
| 1920-1924
|
| Henry L. Fuqua
| Democrat
| 1924-1926
|
| Oramel H. Simpson
| Democrat
| 1926-1928
|
| Huey P. Long
| Democrat
| 1928-1932
|
| Alvin O. King
| Democrat
| 1932
|
| Oscar K. Allen
| Democrat
| 1932-1936
|
| James A. Noe
| Democrat
| 1936
|
| Richard W. Leche
| Democrat
| 1936-1939
|
| Earl K. Long
| Democrat
| 1939-1940, 1948-1952, 1956-1960
|
| Sam H. Jones
| Democrat
| 1940-1944
|
| Jimmie H. Davis
| Democrat
| 1944-1948, 1960-1964
|
| Robert F. Kennon
| Democrat
| 1952-1956
|
| John J. McKeithen
| Democrat
| 1964-1972
|
| Edwin Edwards
| Democrat
| 1972-1980, 1984-1988, 1992-1996
|
| David C. Treen
| Republican
| 1980-1984
|
| Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III
| Democrat/Republican[8]
| 1988-1992
|
| Murphy J. "Mike" Foster
| Republican
| 1992-2004
|
| Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
| Republican
| 2004-2008
|
| Piyash "Bobby" Jindal
| Republican
| 2008-present
|
See also
Further reading
- Dawson, Joseph G., III, ed. The Louisiana Governors: From Iberville to Edwards. Louisiana State U. Press, 1990. 297 pp.
- Romero, Sidney J., ed. "My Fellow Citizens . . .": The Inaugural Addresses of Louisiana's Governors. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 1980. 386, primary sources
pp.
Notes
- ↑ http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/tabid/282/Default.aspx
- ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Governors-of-Louisiana
- ↑ During the period from 1803-1812, Louisiana had not yet gained statehood.
- ↑ Governor of Confederate held Louisiana
- ↑ Governor of Confederate held Louisiana
- ↑ Governor of Union held Louisiana
- ↑ Governor of Union held Louisiana
- ↑ Changed his party affiliation to Republican while in office
