And over yonder's the Louisiana shore.

the Louisiana Purchase.

This became a pattern repeated in New Orleans and other places.

From 1843 to 1846, Mouton was Governor of Louisiana.

The corrupt Louisiana Lottery continued to have influence over the state legislature.

He was also the secretary of the Louisiana constitutional convention of 1921.

Have you heard the one about Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Territory?

Spain secretly transferred the Louisiana Territory to France right beneath Jefferson's nose.

A flood watch remains in effect until Saturday across most of south Louisiana.

He was elected in 1972 as a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention held in 1973.

In 1803, most of modern Kansas was secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

In 1868, Wiltz was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives and the New Orleans School Board.

Nothing could be grander Than to be in Louisiana

For example, Louisiana s governor is of Indian origin, and has been mentioned as a possible running mate for John McCain.

President Jefferson sent Monroe to France to assist Robert R. Livingston in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase.

It is found in much of Louisiana, where it reaches the Gulf of Mexico (in fresh water).

Jacques Dupré (February 12, 1773 September 14, 1846) was a Louisiana State Representative, State Senator and the eighth Governor.

Jacques Phillippe Villeré (April 28, 1761 March 7, 1830) was the second Governor of Louisiana after it became a state.

Now i know what mama meant. You remember, she used to say there was an old louisiana proverb

He was 78 years old. He spent 37 years in a Louisiana State Penitentiary for a crime he didn't commit.

As U.S. Minister to France from 1801 to 1804, Livingston negotiated the Louisiana Purchase.

First elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1816, Dupré was re elected in 1822 and 1824.

From south to north, I 59 begins at its junction with I 10 and I 12 near Slidell.

In the western Atlantic, this species is represented by a handful of specimens from Massachusetts, North Carolina, Louisiana, Tobago, Brazil, and Argentina.

He was 78 years old. He'd spent 37 years in a Louisiana State Penitentiary for a crime he didn't commit.

Neither the subject nor the photographer was named, only the date and the place 1863, a Louisiana cotton plantation.

Later career and family Livingston served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1823 to 1829, a U.S.

Luther Egbert Hall (August 30, 1869 November 6, 1921) was the 35th Governor of Louisiana from 1912 to 1916.

President Ulysses S. Grant enforced civil rights protections for African Americans that were being challenged in South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

After the outbreak of the War of 1812 he returned to New Orleans and enlisted in the Louisiana State Militia.

Political career From 1827 to 1832 was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, serving as speaker in 1831 1832.

Henry Schuyler Thibodaux (1769 October 23, 1827) was a planter and politician, who served one month in 1824 as the fourth Governor of Louisiana.

Oramel Hinckley Simpson (March 20, 1870November 17, 1932) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana.

On September 7, 2012, he was inducted at the Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans, Louisiana into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame as its youngest member.

In arguing against the ruling, Louisiana officials said they would not punish doctors performing abortions while their applications for admitting privileges were pending.

This process has, over the past 5,000 years, caused the coastline of south Louisiana to advance toward the Gulf from .

Beginning February 4, 1861, representatives from Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina met in Montgomery, host of the Southern Convention , to form the Confederate States of America.

Isaac Johnson (November 1, 1803 March 15, 1853) was a US politician and the 12th Governor of the state of Louisiana.

The eastern boundary of the Louisiana purchase was the Mississippi River, from its source to the 31st parallel, though the source of the Mississippi was, at the time, unknown.

Hall died on November 6, 1921 of a heart attack while campaigning for a seat on the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Oscar Kelly Allen, Sr. (August 8, 1882 January 28, 1936), also known as O. K. Allen, was the 42nd Governor of Louisiana from 1932 to 1936.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said state officials are in constant contact with local officials, and assistance is already on the move to affected parishes.

Police in Baton Rouge, La., announced Saturday that a suspect has been arrested in the shooting death of LSU basketball player Wayde Sims on Friday.

It is still used to a significant (though declining) degree in some public schools in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.

The man claims to be a 16 year old boy from Louisiana named Nicholas Mark Randall, who had been missing for four years.