Notable Events
- 1979: David C. Treene became the first Republican governor of Louisiana since the Reconstruction era.
- 1988: The Republican National Convention is held at the New Orleans Superdome.
- 1989: David Duke, an outspoken previous Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, was elected to legislature. In 1991, he ran for governor of Louisiana, but lost to Edwin Edwards.
- 2007: Bobby Jindal a popular Republican politician became the first Indian American man to be elected governor of an American state. In 2011 he was re-elected governor for a second term.
- 2007: David Vitter, Republican senator of Louisiana, was named as a client in the Washington, D.C., prostitution scandal, of which he admitted to. He won re-election in 2010.
- December 2, 2011: Buddy Roemer, previous governor of Louisiana, announces that he will seek to attain the Republican presidential nomination via a third party, split ticket through the advocacy group Americans Elect.
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