Sports & Recreation
George Strickland
New Orleanian George Strickland spent twenty-one years as a major league baseball player.
S
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7.12 d. German Coast Slave Insurrection of 1811
As many as five hundred enslaved people participated in an uprising against slaveholders in the Territory of Orleans.
Art
Gideon Townsend Stanton
Gideon Townsend Stanton, a stockbroker and artist, was the state director for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in the 1930s.
Art
Herbert Singleton
Self-taught artist Herbert Singleton created dramatic scenes of the rough New Orleans environment into which he was born, using found objects such as salvaged doors, driftwood, and discarded furniture.
Art
Hippolyte Sebron
Hippolyte Sebron resided in Louisiana for a brief time, from 1849 to 1855, but he had a profound effect on the development of landscape and genre painting in the state.
Art
Hunt Slonem
Though based in New York, artist Hunt Slonem's deep ties to Louisiana are reflected in his many museum and gallery exhibitions in the state as well as his efforts to preserve the historic houses he owns here.
Art
J. P. Scott
James "J. P." Scott was a Louisiana folk artist who spent much of his life working on construction sites and fishing boats in the bayous around New Orleans. He is best known for his elaborate boats made from found objects, including Mardi Gras beads, toys, and seashells.
Government, Politics & Law
Jared Young Sanders
Democrat Jared Sanders, who served as governor of Louisiana from 1908 until 1912, was the first governor elected under a state law that required gubernatorial candidates to participate in a primary election.
Art
Jean Seidenberg
Although originally from New York City, artist Jean Seidenberg has lived and worked in New Orleans since his early twenties.
Art
Jennifer Shaw
New Orleans photographer Jennifer Shaw's work is based on a world observed and a world constructed, and is typically recorded through the laughably imperfect optics of toy cameras.
History
Jimmy Swaggart
Called the "King of Honky Tonk Heaven" by Newsweek in 1982, Ferriday's Jimmy Swaggart was America's most popular televangelist in the 1980s.
Government, Politics & Law
Joe W. Sanders
Joe W. Sanders served as the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1973 to 1978.
