US Senators are Republicans. Republicans also hold five of the six U.S. Representative seats from Louisiana. Every statewide office, with the exception of governor, is held by a Republican, and both chambers of the state legislature are majority Republican. By contrast, in 1960, not a single Republican served in either house of the Louisiana legislature. The first Republicans to serve in the legislature since Reconstruction were not elected until 1964, and both—Morley A. Hudson and Taylor W. O'Hearn—came from Shreveport. In 2010, several Democrats switched parties bringing the statehouse under Republican control. In 2011, the special election victories of Fred Mills and Jonathan Perry switched the balance of power in the state senate, leaving Republicans in control of the state legislature for the first time since Reconstruction. Also, the party switch of Attorney General Buddy Caldwell caused the Republican party to control every statewide office. However, this was broken in 2015, when Democrat John Bel Edwards won the governor's race. Republicans won the first Senate seat since Reconstruction in 2004, with the election of David Vitter. He became the first popularly elected Republican Senator as well. In 2014, Republicans won both Senate seats for the first time since 1872. Louisiana's Federal Representation Louisiana currently has 6 House districts In the 118th Congress, 1 of Louisiana's seats is held by Democrats and 5 are held by Republicans. There are as follows: Louisiana's 1st congressional district represented by Steve Scalise (R) Louisiana's 2nd congressional district represented by Troy Carter (D) Louisiana's 3rd congressional district represented by Clay Higgins (R) Louisiana's 4th congressional district represented by Mike Johnson (R) Louisiana's 5th congressional district represented by Julia Letlow (R) Louisiana's 6th congressional district represented by Garret Graves (R) Louisiana's two United States Senators are Republicans, Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy, serving since 2015 and 2017, respectively. Louisiana is part of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in the federal judiciary. The district's cases are appealed to the Houston-based United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Corruption Louisiana has long been known for its toleration of political corruption. Bill Dodd, former lieutenant governor and education superintendent, in his book Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics, describes corruption as "a way of life,