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A list of governors from the state of Louisiana.[1][2]
French Governors of Louisiana, First Period[edit]
Name |
Years
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Sauvole de la Villantry
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1699-1701
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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne De Bienville
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1701–1713, 1716–1717, 1718–1724, 1733-1743
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Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
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1713-1716
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Jean-Michel de Lepinay
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1717-1718
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Pierre Duque de Boisbriant
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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
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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-
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See also[edit]
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.
- ↑ http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/tabid/282/Default.aspx
- ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Governors-of-Louisiana
- ↑ During the period from 1803-1812, Louisiana had not yet gained statehood.
- ↑ Governor of Confederate held Louisiana
- ↑ Governor of Confederate held Louisiana
- ↑ Governor of Union held Louisiana
- ↑ Governor of Union held Louisiana
- ↑ Changed his party affiliation to Republican while in office