Don Juan Filhiol's most noted accomplishments are associated with the European settlement of the Ouachita River Valley and include the founding of the Poste d'Ouachita and Fort Miro, which later became Monroe, Louisiana.
The Dunbar-Hunter Expedition was commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore and document the lower regions of the Louisiana Territory.
Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, the first African American elected mayor of New Orleans, served two terms in office, from 1978 to 1986.
Edward Austin Burke, known as Major E. A. Burke, was a Louisiana politician during the Reconstruction era.
Earl Kemp Long served three nonconsecutive terms as Louisiana governor.
Before the first colonial settlement in 1682, Spanish and French explorers visited the territory that would become Louisiana.
The East Louisiana State Hospital in Jackson was the state's first major permanent facility to provide behavioral healthcare to patients.
Edith Garland Dupre was a leading intellectual, civic, and religious leader in Lafayette in the early twentieth century.
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.
Edward Livingston worked on Louisiana's civil and criminal codes and played a role in the battle of New Orleans.
Democratic politician Edwin Washington Edwards cast a long shadow over the state's political history.
Edwin T. Merrick served as the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1855 to 1865.
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