Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge is the capital city of Louisiana and home of Louisiana State University.

Notable people

• Buddy Amoroso, former member of the Metro Council
• Robert E. Anderson, Southern Baptist clergyman from Shreveport and Baton Rouge
• Kyle Ardoin, Louisiana secretary of state since 2018
• Harrison Bagwell, Baton Rouge attorney and Republican Party pioneer
• Kirt Bennett, founder of Young Leaders Academy of Baton Rouge, established to support the education of African-American boys
• James H. "Jim" Brown, former state senator, Louisiana secretary of state and insurance commissioner
• Ossie Brown, district attorney, 1972-1984
• Bryan Bush, East Baton Rouge Parish district attorney, 1985-1990
• Theo Cangelosi, attorney; gubernatorial confidant
• Stephen Frank Carter, departing state representative for District 68
• Jack Christian, East Baton Rouge mayor-president, 1957-1964
• Dan Claitor, attorney and departing state senator from District 16
• Thomas Clausen, former state superintendent of education
• Beth Courtney, president and CEO of Louisiana Public Broadcasting
• John Easterly Coxe, state education superintendent, 1940 to 1948
• J. D. DeBlieux, former state senator known for civil rights activism
• Joe Delpit, former state representative, owner of The Chicken Shack
• John Desmond, architect
• Bill Dodd, state representative from Allen Parish (1940-1948); lived in Baton Rouge while lieutenant governor (1948-1952), and state education superintendent (1964-1972)1972
• Woodrow Wilson Dumas, Mayor-President, 1965 to 1980
• Mike Dunne, environmental journalist
• Edwin Edwards, four-term governor born in Marksville but resided in Crowley and then Baton Rouge
• John Bel Edwards, governor of Louisiana
• Mike Futrell, former state representative
• Gaston Gerald, state senator from Greenwell Springs in East Baton Rouge Parish; expelled from Senate for corruption n 1981
• E. Clark Gaudin, first Republican to represent East Baton Rouge Parish in the state legislature in the 20th century
• Hunter Greene, family court judge and former state representative
• James Gremillion, secretary of state from 1940 to 1944
• T. H. Harris, state education superintendent from 1908 to 1940
• E. L. "Bubba" Henry, attorney and former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives
• Shelby M. Jackson, Concordia Parish native, lived in Baton Rouge as state education superintendent, 1948 to 1964
• Bobby Jindal, governor, 2008-2016
• Claude Kirkpatrick, businessman, hospital administrator, state representative for Jefferson Davis Parish (1952-1960)
• Elmer Litchfield, sheriff of East Baton Rouge Parish, 1983 to 2006
• Chuck McMains, attorney-businessman and former state representative for East Baton Rouge Parish
• Tom Ed McHugh, former Baton Rouge mayor-president
• Scott McKnight, incoming state representative for District 68
• Edward Grady Partin, business agent of Teamsters union; his immunized testimony sent Jimmy Hoffa to prison
• Bernie Pinsonat, political pollster
• Kevin Reilly, executive with Lamar Advertising Company, state representative from 1972 to 1988
• Dan Richey, political consultant, former member of both house of the legislature
• Eddie Rispone, 2019 Republican candidate for governor
• Buddy Roemer, former governor
• Alfred Shapiro, former Baton Rouge lawyer and legal counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union
• Bobby Simpson, former Baton Rouge mayor-president and mayor of Baker
• Charles E. Thompson, former educator
• Sandra Thompson, former director of the Atchafalaya Basin project
• R. B. Walden, attorney who directed the desegregation of the Louisiana Department of Hospitals
• Harry D. Wilson, commissioner of agriculture and forestry from 1916 until his death in 1948; lived in Tangipahoa Parish
• Aubrey Young, state alcohol counselor and political activist

Further reading

• Martin, Mark E. and Andrew D. Lytle. Andrew D. Lytle's Baton Rouge: Photographs, 1863-1910 (The Hill Collection: Holdings of the LSU Libraries) (2008) excerpt and text search