Joe R. Salter
 Joe Reece Salter (born August 13 1943) is the director of governmental affairs of the Louisiana State Department of Education and a Democratic former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives. In 1986 he began representing District 24 in northwestern Louisiana which then included Sabine De Soto Bienville and Red River parishes. He was initially seated after a special election was held to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of H.M.