page_title: List of Louisiana Creoles
section_title: Law and politics
hierarchical_section_title: List of Louisiana Creoles / List / Law and politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Caesar Carpentier Antoine was the Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1836 to 1872.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable Louisiana Creole people.
  To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Louisiana Creoles or must have references showing they are Louisiana Creoles and are notable.
context_section_description: Caesar Antoine (1836–1921) – Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, businessman, soldier, editor
  Larry Bagneris, Jr. (born 1946) – social and political activist from New Orleans
  Diana Bajoie (born 1948) – director of community relations for the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans; Democratic former member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature
  Sidney Barthelemy (born 1942) – former mayor of New Orleans
  Armand Julie Beauvais (1783–1843) – 7th governor of Louisiana
  Pierre Evariste Jean-Baptiste Bossier (March 22, 1797 – April 24, 1844) – Senator for the Louisiana State Senate from 1833 to 1843
  Henry Braden (1944–2013) – lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic politician from his native New Orleans, Louisiana.
  Donna Brazile (born 1959) – author, academic, and political analyst; Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee
  Allen Broussard (1929–1996) – judge who rose to become a justice of the California Supreme Court
  LaToya Cantrell (born 1972) - current Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana
  Ward Connerly (born 1939) – former University of California regent, moderate conservative political activist, and businessman
  Don Cravins, Jr. (born 1972) – Democratic politician from the State of Louisiana
  Robert DeBlieux (1933–2010) – historian, preservationist, painter, author, businessman, former Democratic mayor of Natchitoches, the oldest city in Louisiana
  Pierre Derbigny (1769–1829) – 6th governor of Louisiana
  Dan Desdunes (1870–1929) – civil rights activist and musician in New Orleans and Omaha
  Rodolphe Desdunes (1849–1928) – civil rights activist, poet, historian, journalist, and customs officer primarily active in New Orleans
  Jean Noel Destrehan (1754–1823) – politician in Louisiana and one-time owner of Destréhan Plantation, one of Louisiana's most famous antebellum historical landmarks
  Antoine Dubuclet (1810–1887) – State Treasurer of Louisiana
  Jacques Dupre (1773–1846) – 8th Governor of Louisiana
  Edwin Edwards (born 1927) – served as the 50th governor of Louisiana for four terms (1972–1980, 1984–1988 and 1992–1996), twice as many elected terms as any other Louisiana chief executive
  Keith Ellison (born 1963) – U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district
  William Freret (1804–1864) – mayor of New Orleans, 1840–1842, and 1843–1844
  Charles Gayarré (1805–1895) – lawyer, judge, politician, historian, essayist, dramatist and novelist
  Paul Octave Hebert (1818–1880) – 14th Governor of Louisiana from 1853 to 1856 and a general in the Confederate Army
  Alexis Herman (born 1947) – politician; 23rd U.S. Secretary of Labor, serving under President Bill Clinton; previously Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement
  Valerie Jarrett (born 1956) – senior advisor and assistant to the president for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Obama administration; lawyer and businesswoman. Jerrett is a descendant of French colonist Charles Rochon
  Paul Lafargue (1842–1911) – French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist
  Eric LaFleur (born 1964) – Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate; first elected in 2007; previously member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 38 (Evangeline and St. Landry parishes), 2000–2008; first elected without opposition to an open seat vacated by Dirk Deville; re-elected four years later in 2003 with 81% of the vote
  Mary Landrieu (born 1955) – politician, entrepreneur, and former U.S. Senator from the state of Louisiana.
  Mitch Landrieu (born 1960) – politician and lawyer who is the 61st Mayor of New Orleans. A Democrat, Landrieu served as the 51st Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2010 prior to becoming mayor.
  Moon Landrieu (born 1930) – served as the 56th Mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to 1978. He also is a former judge. He represented New Orleans' Twelfth Ward in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966 and served on the New Orleans City Council as a member at-large from 1966 to 1970.
  Pierre Caliste Landry (1841–1921) – Mayor of Donaldso
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