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Edmond J. Muniz was serving his first term as mayor of the city of Kenner, Louisiana — a municipality of 75,000 in the northwest corner of Jefferson Parish. Having served on the Jefferson Parish Council from 1987 through 2003, he came out of political retirement to run for mayor and posted a decisive win in the April 29, 2006, runoff election.
From the 1940s to the 1970s, Jefferson's population swelled with an influx of middle-class white families from Orleans Parish.The parish's population doubled in size from 1940 to 1950 and again from 1950 to 1960 as the parents behind the post–World War II baby boom, profiting from rising living standards and dissatisfied with their old neighborhoods, chose relocation to new neighborhoods of ...
Donelon began his career in public office serving on the Jefferson Parish Council from 1978 to 1980. [3] From 1982 to 2001, he served as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. As a state lawmaker, he chaired the House Committee on Insurance and co-chaired the Republican Legislative Delegation. [3]
Dec. 19—WATERTOWN — Two new members will serve on the Jefferson County Local Development Corp. board. LDC chair Robert E. Aliasso Jr. has announced the appointments of Dawn Robinson, an ...
Jefferson on Tuesday defeated fellow Councilman Victor Jones by a margin of 7,296 to 5,788 votes — or 55.6% to 44.1% — in the contest to succeed retiring Mayor Jay Wagner. At age ...
In 1974, Broussard was elected to the Jefferson Parish School Board and re-elected in 1976. In 1977, he was elected as a district chairman to the Jefferson Parish Council and re-elected in 1981. He successfully ran for mayor of Kenner in 1982, and he was reelected in 1986, 1990, and 1994. Broussard was elected chairman of the Jefferson Parish ...
Bryan Joseph Adams (born November 1, 1962) is a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 85, which encompasses Gretna, the seat of suburban Jefferson Parish and Terrytown, where Adams is the former volunteer fire chief.
According to the 2020 United States census, there were 1,809 people, 604 households, and 446 families residing in the town. [13] At the 2019 American Community Survey, the racial and ethnic makeup of Jean Lafitte was 95.4% non-Hispanic white, 0.1% Black or African American, 0.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.5% some other race, and 3.4% two or more races. [14]