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The closure of the bridge, located in the 4800 block of West Congress approximately 0.2 miles west of Rue du Belier, is expected to last about 2.5 months, the Lafayette Consolidated Government ...
Congress again abolished the Western District of Louisiana and reorganized Louisiana as a single judicial district on July 27, 1866, by 14 Stat. 300. [1] On March 3, 1881, by 21 Stat. 507 , Louisiana was for a third time divided into Eastern and the Western Districts, with one judgeship authorized for each. [ 1 ]
The U.S. state of Louisiana currently has six congressional districts.The state has had as many as eight districts; the eighth district was eliminated on January 9, 1993 after results of the 1990 census, and the seventh district was eliminated in 2013, following results of the 2010 census, largely because of people moving interstate after Hurricane Katrina hit the state.
Congress 1st district 2nd district 3rd district 4th district; 28th (1843–1845) John Slidell (D) Alcée Louis la Branche (D) John Bennett Dawson (D) Pierre Bossier (D) Isaac E. Morse (D) 29th (1845–1847) Bannon G. Thibodeaux (D) John H. Harmanson (D) Emile La Sére (D) 30th (1847–1849) 31st (1849–1851) Charles Magill Conrad (W) Henry A ...
Seat expired at the end of the 36th Congress due to Louisiana's succession. [a] Charles Boustany: January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2013 Republican: 7th: Elected in 2004. Redistricted to the 3rd district. January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2017 3rd: Redistricted from the 7th district and re-elected in 2012. Retired to run for U.S. senator. John Breaux
Attorney for the daughter of the man shot and killed on Aug. 30 at Octane Bar and Lounge filed a civil lawsuit against multiple downtown businesses.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana were held on November 8, 2022, to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of Louisiana, one from each of the state's six congressional districts.
The new 3rd included most of southwestern Louisiana, including Lafayette and Lake Charles. Most of this territory had been the 7th district before the 2010 census. The old 3rd's last congressman, freshman Republican Jeff Landry , had his home in New Iberia, along with much of the western portion of his district, drawn into the new 3rd.