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Russell Long was the state's longest serving senator, served 1948–1987. Louisiana is one of fifteen states alongside California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Utah to have a younger senior senator and an older junior senator.
The legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana has convened many times since statehood became effective on April 30, 1812. "The legislature was elected every two years until 1880, when a sitting legislature was elected every four years thereafter."
The lawmaker said Senate Bill 1 will allow legislators to move forward with forming a special statewide court to handle business disputes, though he has offered few details about what that system ...
Liz Murrill, Attorney General of Louisiana (2024–present) [73] Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas (2015–present) [74] Sean Reyes, Attorney General of Utah (2013–present) [75] Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana (2021–present) and U.S. Representative of IN-04 (2011–2019) [76] Alan Wilson, Attorney General of South Carolina ...
The bill cleared the Louisiana House of Representatives on Tuesday by a 64-29 vote, and won final passage on Thursday in the Senate, 29-7. Republicans control both chambers.
Daniel R. Martiny, known as Danny Martiny (born June 27, 1951), is a politician and attorney from Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, who served between 2008 and 2020 as a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate for the 10th district, based in the New Orleans suburbs. [1] He was also the Senate Majority Leader from 2012 until 2020.
A Black Republican former state senator has entered the campaign for Louisiana's new majority minority 6th Congressional District that stretches from Baton Rouge to Acadiana to Alexandria to ...
The first speaker, Pierre Bauchet St. Martin, was elected by the House in 1812.During the first years of statehood the speakership and the Louisiana House of Representative was dominated by supporters of Henry Clay, after 1845 the Democratic Party came to dominate politics until the United States Civil War.