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Charles C. Cordill (October 13, 1845 – November 22, 1916), was a cotton planter [1] and politician from Tensas Parish in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. He was a member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1884 until 1912 in which he represented both Tensas and neighboring Concordia Parish to the south. [2]
Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1907. Consuelo Yznaga was born in 1853, in New York City, [5] the second of four children of diplomat Don Antonio Modesto Yznaga del Valle and Ellen Maria Clement of Ravenswood Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana, Louisiana, paternal granddaughter of José Antonio de Yznaga y Borrell wife María Francisca del Valle y Castillo and maternal granddaughter of ...
Samuel Winter Martien (November 12, 1854 – May 31, 1946) was a wealthy cotton planter [1] who served as a Democrat from 1906 to 1920 in the Louisiana House of Representatives from his adopted Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana. [2] At the time, each Louisiana parish regardless of population had at least one representative.
Brenham Calhoun Crothers (January 2, 1905 – April 27, 1984) was a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from Ferriday in Concordia Parish in eastern Louisiana, who served two nonconsecutive terms from 1948 to 1952 and 1956 to 1960, both corresponding with the administrations of Governor Earl Kemp Long.
New Carthage was located in, successively, Concordia Parish, Madison Parish, and Tensas Parish in Louisiana, United States. Destroyed by a combination of the American Civil War and the power of the Mississippi River, nothing remains of New Carthage today.
The Concordia Parish Library is the second oldest Parish Library in Louisiana and the first of such to be tax-supported. [18] The library began as a movement between the President of the Tri-Parish Community Organization who had obtained a community program and a State Librarian at the time, Essae Martha Culver .
These commentaries endeared him to President Nixon, who rewarded him with a rare, hour-long, one-on-one interview in 1971, at the height of the administration's animus against major newspapers, CBS, and NBC, despite Smith's having broadcast his "political obituary" only nine years earlier.
Pages in category "People from Concordia Parish, Louisiana" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. K.