Baton Rouge
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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
- Tom Colten, former mayor of Minden, appointee to the state Department of Transportation and Development, based in Baton Rouge
- Beth Courtney, president and CEO of Louisiana Public Broadcasting
- John Easterly Coxe, state education superintendent, 1940 to 1948
- Ed Cullen, newspaper and radio journalist who specializes in human interest essays
- 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
- Jack M. Dyer, attorney and one-term state representative, 1960 to 1964
- 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
- Dudley Guglielmo, state insurance commissioner, 1964-1972
- 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
- James Monroe Smith, 1930s LSU president caught up in Louisiana Hayride scandal
- 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