'''Maurice Edwin Landrieu''' (born 1930) was Mayor of [[New Orleans]] from 1970 to 1978. He served from 1979 to 1981 in the [[Jimmy Carter]] administration as the United States [[Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]]He is the progenitor of the [[Democratic]] Louisiana Landrieu clan which includes his daughter, former state treasurer and U.S. Senator [[Mary Landrieu]] and a son, [[Mitch Landrieu]], the term-limited New Orleans mayor and former lieutenant governor. He was usually known by his nickname, "Moon".<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9558118/site/newsweek/</ref>
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'''Maurice Edwin Landrieu''' (born 1930) was Mayor of [[New Orleans]] from 1970 to 1978. He served from 1979 to 1981 in the [[Jimmy Carter]] administration as the United States [[Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]]. He is a former [[judge]] and served on the New Orleans City Council and in the Louisiana House of Representatives prior to his two terms as mayor.
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He is the progenitor of the [[Democratic]] Louisiana Landrieu clan which includes his daughter, former state treasurer and U.S. Senator [[Mary Landrieu]] and a son, [[Mitch Landrieu]], the current term-limited New Orleans mayor and former lieutenant governor. He was usually known by his nickname, "Moon"<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9558118/site/newsweek/</ref> and his [[liberal]] political philosophy.