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Edward Bermudez
Edward Bermudez served as the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1880 to 1892.
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Edward Douglas White Sr.
Sugar planter Edward White, a member of the Whig party, served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and as governor of Louisiana from 1835 until 1839.
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Edward Livingston
Edward Livingston worked on Louisiana's civil and criminal codes and played a role in the battle of New Orleans.
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Edwin Edwards
Democratic politician Edwin Washington Edwards cast a long shadow over the state's political history.
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Edwin T. Merrick
Edwin T. Merrick served as the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1855 to 1865.
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Ellen Dunn-Burch
Ellen Dunn-Burch was a politically engaged philanthropist credited with convincing her husband Oscar J. Dunn to accept the nomination for lieutenant governor of Louisiana, making him the nation’s first Black executive officer.
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Esteban Rodriguez Miró y Sabater
Serving from 1782 until 1791, Spanish-colonial governor Esteban Miró oversaw a period of relative economic prosperity.
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Etienne de Périer
From 1727 to 1733 Etienne de Périer governed Louisiana as commandant-general for the Company of the Indies, which held a charter for the development of the Louisiana colony until 1731, and the French Crown.
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Francis T. Nicholls
Francis Nicholls served two nonconsecutive terms as governor of Louisiana from 1877 to 1880, and again from 1888 to 1892.
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Francisco Luis Hector, baron de Carondelet
Francisco Luis Hector, baron de Carondelet served as governor of the Spanish colonies of Louisiana and West Florida between 1791 and 1797.
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Francois-Xavier Martin
Francois-Xavier Martin was the presiding judge of the Supreme Court of Louisiana from 1836 to 1846.
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Frank A. Monroe
Frank Adair Monroe served as the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1914 to 1922.
