List of People From New Orleans - Law, Politics, and Military

Law, Politics, and Military

• Reverend Avery Alexander, civil rights leader, state legislator
• John B. Babcock, Medal of Honor recipient
• Algernon Sidney Badger, government official during and after Reconstruction
• Ben Bagert, attorney and member of both houses of Louisiana State Legislature
• P.G.T. Beauregard, general & inventor
• Kirt Bennett, political activist, founder of Young Leaders Academy in Baton Rouge
• Hale Boggs, former U.S. Representative
• Lindy Boggs, former U.S. Representative and retired U.S. Ambassador to The Vatican
• Tom Boggs, Washington, D.C. lobbyist
• Stephen Bradberry, community organizer, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award laureate
• Peppi Bruneau, attorney and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
• Benjamin F. Butler, administrator of Union occupied New Orleans during the Civil War
• Pascal F. Calogero, Jr., Chief Justice Louisiana Supreme Court
• James Carville, political consultant, political science professor
• Walter L. Cohen, politician and businessman
• Harry Connick, Sr., district attorney, father of singer Harry Connick, Jr.
• Rob Couhig, businessman, attorney, politician
• Charles E. Dunbar, attorney, civil service reformer
• Frank Burton Ellis, attorney, politician, federal judge
• Albert Estopinal, former U.S. representative and member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature
• C.B. Forgotston, attorney, political activist, state government watchdog
• Garey Forster, radio host, former state representative and state labor secretary
• Jim Garrison, district attorney
• Dr. C.S. Gordon, Jr., Religious, Civil Rights, and Education Leader
• John Grenier, Birmingham lawyher and Alabama Republican Party figure, born in New Orleans in 1930
• Walker Hines, state representative
• Gerry E. Hinton, state senator from St. Tammany Parish
• Jean Joseph Amable Humbert, army general, subordinate to Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans
• Nita Rusich Hutter, college administrator and politician
• Moon Landrieu, judge and politician
• Mary Landrieu, state representative, state treasurer, U.S. senator
• Mitch Landrieu, state representative, lieutenant governor, mayor of New Orleans
• Hank Lauricella, former professional football player; state senator from Jefferson Parish, 1972–1996
• Samuel Lawrason, attorney, authored the Lawrason Act on municipal government.
• Art Lentini, Metairie attorney who succeeded Hank Lauricella in the state senate (1996–2008)
• Bob Livingston, Republican former U.S. Representative for 1st congressional district
• Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, a Confederate general
• Nicholas Lorusso, Republican state representative from Orleans Parish since 2007
• Virginia Martinez, Republican activist, treasurer of the 1980 and 1984 Republican National Conventions
• Danny Martiny, state senator from Jefferson Parish, was born in New Orleans.
• P.J. Mills, politician, businessman
• Ernest Nathan Morial, American political, legal, and civil rights leader
• Marc Morial, former mayor, son of Ernest Nathan Morial
• deLesseps Story Morrison, former mayor and ambassador to the Organization of American States
• deLesseps Morrison, Jr., late state representative
• William Mumford, Confederate resistor in Union occupied New Orleans during the Civil War
• Ray Nagin, former mayor of New Orleans
• Alejandro O'Reilly, governor of Louisiana, known as "Bloody O'Reilly"
• P.B.S. Pinchback, politician
• Andrew C. Querbes, Sr., banker and mayor of Shreveport from 1902 to 1906
• Max Rafferty, educator author and columnist, California politician, born in New Orleans in 1917
• Beth Rickey, political activist who opposed David Duke
• Cokie Roberts, journalist, daughter of Hale and Lindy Boggs
• Tom Schedler, former state senator from St. Tammany Parish and current Louisiana secretary of state
• Ed Scogin, former state representative from St. Tammany Parish
• Pat Screen, Louisiana State University quarterback, lawyer, and Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish
• Benjamin Sisko, Starfleet commander
• A.P. Tureaud, attorney
• José de Villamil (or José Villamil), father of the independence of Ecuador
• Roger F. Villere, Jr., politician
• David Vitter, U.S. Senator
• John Volz, late U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana
• Edward Douglass White, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Robert Wilkie, National Security Assistant to the President
• John Minor Wisdom, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
• Andrew Young, politician