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This is a list of people from Monroe, Louisiana and includes notable persons who were born in and/or have lived in Monroe, Louisiana, United States. For a list of people who have studied at the University of Louisiana at Monroe , see List of University of Louisiana at Monroe alumni .
Monroe is served by two African-American-owned weekly newspapers: the Monroe Free Press and the Monroe Dispatch. The Free Press was founded in 1969 by Roosevelt Wright, Jr., and The Dispatch was founded in 1975 by Irma and Frank Detiege. The Ouachita Citizen is a locally owned and operated weekly newspaper that was founded in 1924.
Sportspeople from Monroe, Louisiana (2 C, 34 P) Pages in category "People from Monroe, Louisiana" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
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William Derwood Cann, Jr. – interim mayor of Monroe from 1978 to 1979 (D); attended Ouachita Parish Junior College in 1937–1938; chairman of ULM Military Department from 1954 to 1956 [2] Melvin Rambin (Class of 1963) – Mayor of Monroe, 2000 to 2001 (R) J. Robert Wooley (Class of 1974) – Louisiana insurance commissioner from 2000 to 2006 (D)
The Monroe metropolitan area, officially the Monroe metropolitan statistical area, is a metropolitan statistical area in Northern Louisiana that covers three parishes—Ouachita, Union, and Morehouse. According to the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 207,104.
In 1916, the Monroe natural gas field was discovered. The field stretched more than 500 square miles (1,000 km 2) and was estimated to have 6,500,000,000,000 cubic feet (180 km 3) of natural gas in it. As a result, for a time the city of Monroe was known as the natural gas capital of the world. The new industry generated many jobs.
This was later the site of a French trading post, and ultimately the present-day city of Monroe, Louisiana developed around it. [ 5 ] Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville , a French-Canadian colonizer, encountered the Ouachita people in 1700.