Other High Offices Held
This is a table of congressional, other governorships, and other federal offices held by governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Louisiana except where noted. * denotes those offices which the governor resigned to take.
| Name | Gubernatorial term | U.S. Congress | Other offices held | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House | Senate | |||
| William Charles Cole Claiborne | 1803–1816 | S | U.S. Representative from Tennessee, Governor of Mississippi Territory | |
| Thomas B. Robertson | 1820–1824 | H | ||
| Henry Johnson | 1824–1828 | H | S | |
| Edward Douglass White Sr. | 1835–1839 | H | ||
| Alexandre Mouton | 1843–1846 | S | ||
| Robert C. Wickliffe | 1856–1860 | Louisiana Lieutenant Governor, Elected U.S. Representative but was refused his seat | ||
| Michael Hahn | 1864–1865 | H | Elected U.S. Senator* but was refused his seat | |
| Benjamin Flanders | 1870–1872 | H | ||
| P. B. S. Pinchback | 1872–1873 | Acting Lieutenant Governor, Elected to both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate but was refused his seat. | ||
| William P. Kellogg | 1873–1877 | H | S | |
| Samuel D. McEnery | 1881–1888 | S | Louisiana Lieutenant Governor | |
| Murphy J. Foster | 1892–1900 | S | ||
| Newton C. Blanchard | 1904–1908 | H | S | |
| Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. | 1908–1912 | H | Louisiana Lieutenant Governor, Elected U.S. Senator but denied the seat, preferring to stay governor | |
| Huey Pierce Long | 1928–1932 | S* | Elected to the Senate in 1930, but did not take the seat until the election of his hand-picked successor was ensured | |
| Edwin W. Edwards | 1972–1980, 1984–1988, 1992–1996 | H | ||
| David C. Treen | 1980–1984 | H | ||
| Buddy Roemer | 1988–1992 | H | ||
| Kathleen Blanco | 2004–2008 | Louisiana Lieutenant Governor (1996–2004) | ||
| Bobby Jindal | 2008–Present | H | ||
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