Governors of Louisiana

A list of governors from the state of Louisiana.[1][2]

## Contents

* 1 French Governors of Louisiana, First Period
* 2 Spanish Governors of Louisiana
* 3 French Governors of Louisiana, Second Period
* 4 State Governors of Louisiana
* 5 See also
* 6 Further reading
* 7 Notes

## French Governors of Louisiana, First Period[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Sauvole de la Villantry  |  1699-1701
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne De Bienville  |  1701–1713, 1716–1717, 1718–1724, 1733-1743
Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac  |  1713-1716
Jean-Michel de Lepinay  |  1717-1718
Pierre Duque de Boisbriant  |  1724-1726
Etienne Perier  |  1726-1733
Pierre-Francois de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal  |  1743-1753
Louis Billouart  |  1753-1763
Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie  |  1763-1765
Charles Philippe Aubry  |  1765-1769

## Spanish Governors of Louisiana[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Antonia de Ulloa  |  1766-1768
Alejandro O'Reilly  |  1769
Luis de Unzaga  |  1770-1777
Bernardo de Galvez  |  1777-1785
Esteban Rodriguez Miro  |  1785-1791
Francisco Luis Hector de Carondelet  |  1791-1797
Manuel Gayoso de Lemos  |  1797-1799
Sebastian de la Puerta y O'Farril  |  1799-1801
Juan Manuel de Salcedo  |  1801-1803

## French Governors of Louisiana, Second Period[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Pierre Clement de Laussat  |  1803

## State Governors of Louisiana[edit]

Name |  Party  |  Years

|
|

William C. C. Claiborne  |  Democratic Republican  |  1803-1816[3]
Jaques Phillippe Villere  |  Democratic Republican  |  1816-1820
Thomas Bolling Robertson  |  National Republican  |  1820-1824
Henry S. Thibodaux  |  National Republican  |  1824
Henry S. Johnson  |  National Republican  |  1824-1828
Pierre Auguste Bourguigon Derbigny  |  Whig/National Republican  |  1828-1829
Armand Julie Beauvais  |  Whig  |  1829-1830
Jaques Dupre  |  Anti-Jacksonian Whig  |  1830-1831
Andre Bienvenu Roman  |  Whig  |  1831–1835, 1839-1843
Edward Douglass White  |  Whig  |  1835-1839
Alexander Mouton  |  Democrat  |  1843-1846
Isaac Johnson  |  Democrat  |  1846-1850
Joseph M. Walker  |  Democrat  |  1850-1853
Paul O. Hebert  |  Democrat  |  1853-1856
Robert C. Wickcliffe  |  Democrat  |  1856-1860
Thomas Overton Moore[4] |  Democrat  |  1860-1864
Henry Watkins Allen[5] |  Democrat  |  1864-1865
George F. Shepley[6] |  Unionist Democrat  |  1862-1864
Michael Hahn[7] |  Republican  |  1864-1865
James Madison Wells  |  Republican  |  1865-1867
Benjamin Franklin Flanders  |  Repblican  |  1867-1868
Joshua Baker  |  Republican  |  1868
Henry Clay Warmoth  |  Republican  |  1868-1872
John McEnery  |  Democrat/Liberal Republican  |  1872
P. B. S. Pinchback  |  Republican  |  1872-1873
William Pitt Kellogg  |  Republican  |  1873-1877
Stephen B. Packard | Republican  | January 8, 1877​ – April 24, 1877​​
Francis T. Nicholls  |  Democrat  |  1877–1880, 1888-1892
Louis Alfred Wiltz  |  Democrat  |  1880-1881
Samuel Douglas McEnery  |  Democrat  |  1881-1888
Murphy James Foster, Sr.  |  Democrat  |  1892-1900
William Wright Heard  |  Democrat  |  1900-1904
Newton C. Blanchard  |  Democrat  |  1904-1908
Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. |  Democrat  |  1908-1912
Luther E. Hall  |  Democrat  |  1912-1916
Ruffin G. Pleasant  |  Democrat  |  1916-1920
John M. Parker  |  Democrat  |  1920-1924
Henry L. Fuqua  |  Democrat  |  1924-1926
Oramel H. Simpson  |  Democrat  |  1926-1928
Huey P. Long |  Democrat  |  1928-1932
Alvin O. King  |  Democrat  |  1932
Oscar Kelly Allen  |  Democrat  |  1932-1936
James A. Noe |  Democrat  |  1936
Richard Leche |  Democrat  |  1936-1939
Earl Kemp Long |  Democrat  |  1939–1940, 1948–1952, 1956-1960
Sam Houston Jones |  Democrat  |  1940-1944
Jimmie Davis |  Democrat  |  1944–1948, 1960-1964
Robert F. Kennon |  Democrat  |  1952-1956
John J. McKeithen |  Democrat  |  1964-1972
Edwin Edwards |  Democrat  |  1972–1980, 1984–1988, 1992-1996
David C. Treen |  Republican  |  1980-1984
Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III |  Democrat/Republican[8] |  1988-1992
Murphy James "Mike" Foster, Jr. |  Republican  |  1992-2004
Kathleen Blanco |  Democrat  |  2004-2008
Piyash "Bobby" Jindal |  Republican  |  2008–2016
John Bel Edwards |  Democrat  |  2016-

## See also[edit]

* State Governors

## Further reading[edit]

* Dawson, Joseph G., III, ed. The Louisiana Governors: From Iberville to Edwards. Louisiana State U. Press, 1990. 297 pp.
* Romero, Sidney J., ed. "My Fellow Citizens . . .": The Inaugural Addresses of Louisiana's Governors. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 1980. 386, primary sources

pp.

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/tabid/282/Default.aspx
2. ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Governors-of-Louisiana
3. ↑ During the period from 1803-1812, Louisiana had not yet gained statehood.
4. ↑ Governor of Confederate held Louisiana
5. ↑ Governor of Confederate held Louisiana
6. ↑ Governor of Union held Louisiana
7. ↑ Governor of Union held Louisiana
8. ↑ Changed his party affiliation to Republican while in office

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