2016; Alexandria resident Catherine D. Kimball – former Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court Maxie Lambright – football coach for Louisiana Tech University, 1967–1978; coached at Bolton High School in Alexandria, 1955 to 1958 D.L. Lang - Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California F.A. Little, Jr. – retired judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana George S. Long – former U.S. representative Gillis William Long – former U.S. representative Jay Luneau – lawyer and state senator, effective January 2016 Gerald Archie Mangun – late pastor of the Pentecostal Church, the largest congregation in Alexandria Rod Masterson – actor Terry Alan "Tet" Mathews – former Major League Pitcher, Born 1964 died 2012. Pitched for Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles, and Kansas City Royals Mildred Methvin – former United States magistrate judge of the Western District of Louisiana, based in Lafayette; native of Alexandria Warren Morris – Major League Baseball player Craig Nall – National Football League player J. Tinsley Oden – mathematician Jewel Prestage – first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science, former Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Southern University. Juan Pierre – Major League Baseball player Ed Rand – state representative from 1960 to 1964 Joe Ray – contemporary visual artist Joseph E. Ransdell – U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1913-1931 Slater Rhea – Singer and TV personality on national TV in China. Sterling Ridge – Arizona legislator Alvin Benjamin Rubin – federal judge, 1966-1991 Bill Schroll – National Football League player Gustav Anton von Seckendorff – author, actor and declaimer William Tecumseh Sherman – first superintendent; Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy (later to become LSU) Russ Springer – Major League Baseball player for 18 years David Theophilus Stafford – Rapides Parish sheriff from 1888 to 1904 Grove Stafford, Sr. – Alexandria lawyer and state senator from 1940 to 1948 Leroy Augustus Stafford – planter and Confederate brigadier general mortally wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864 Lloyd George Teekell – state representative from 1953 to 1960 and 9th Judicial District Court judge from 1979 to 1990 Jeff R. Thompson – former state representative for Bossier Parish; judge of the 26th Judicial District Court since 2015; born in Alexandria in 1965 Cullen Washington Jr. – contemporary abstract painter. Muse Watson – actor James Madison Wells – 19th century governor of