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Ray Authement (born 1928), president of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1974–2008; Jamie Baldridge (born 1975), visual artist, writer; Carl W. Bauer (1933–2013), member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature; lobbyist for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1990–2010; Henri Willis Bendel, fashion designer and ...
French spread in Louisiana. Parishes marked in yellow are those where 4–10% of the 2015 population speak French or Cajun French at home, orange 10–15%, red 15–20%.
Lafayette was home to minor-league baseball teams in various seasons from 1907 to 2000. Lafayette was an affiliate of the St. Louis Browns 1936–1941, Chicago Cubs (1955–1957) and San Francisco Giants (1975–1976).
Rapides County – The settlements of Rapides, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Bayou Boeuf, Bayou Robert, and other settlements in the region. In 1807, divided into Avoyelles and Rapides parishes. On December 7, 1810, William C. C. Claiborne , governor of the Orleans Territory, annexed the short-lived Republic of West Florida to the United States and ...
Mayor Term start Term end Party 1: Alphonse Neveu January 13, 1869 June 14, 1870 2: William O. Smith June 14, 1870 January 15, 1871 3: William Brandt
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Lafayette Parish is a part of the region of Acadiana in southern Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 269 square miles (700 km 2), of which 269 square miles (700 km 2) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2) (0.2%) is water. [6]
The Advertiser has been accused of protecting the Catholic Church during molestation charges brought against priests in the mid-1980s. [5] Later, in 2014, it gave a prominent op-ed to William Donahue of the Catholic League defending the protection of accused priests by the Church, [6] a piece that has been criticized as containing substantial inaccuracies, by one of the lawyers who had ...