States representative from Louisiana's 7th congressional district 1953–1965 (D) Ollie Tyler (Master of Education), mayor of Shreveport; former interim state superintendent of education; former Caddo Parish school superintendent Donald Ellsworth Walter (Class of 1961), U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, based in Shreveport, U.S. attorney for the Western District 1969–1977; native of Jennings (R) Rick Ward, III, state senator from District 17 since 2012 and attorney in Port Allen Gus Weill (Class of 1955), public relations consultant, novelist, playwright, poet (D) Lloyd F. Wheat (Class of 1946), attorney and state senator from Red River and Natchitoches parishes 1948–1952 Tom Willmott, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Jefferson Parish since 2008 (R) Jerome Zeringue, incoming state representative for Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, effective 2016 Military Robert H. Barrow, General, 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps George S. Bowman Jr., Major General, U.S. Marine Corps; Commanding general, Camp Pendleton Arnold W. Braswell, retired Lieutenant General, U.S. Air Force, studied at LSU between 1942 and 1944 Charles Christopher Campbell, General, U.S. Army, commander U.S. Army Forces Command Claire Chennault, General, U.S. Army Air Forces, organizer and commander of the Flying Tigers Larry J. Dodgen, Lieutenant General, former commander, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Terry Gabreski, Lieutenant General, U.S. Air Force, BA History, 1973 John A. Lejeune, General, U.S. Marine Corps, namesake of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina Bobby V. Page, Brigadier General, Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force Carey A. Randall, Major General, U.S. Marine Corps; Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense 1951–1960 Ronald G. Richard, Major General, Commanding General of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune Jeffrey W. Talley, Lieutenant General, retired, 32nd Chief of Army Reserve (CAR) and 7th Commanding General, United States Army Reserve Command (USARC) 2012–2016 Science and engineering James R. Andrews, orthopedic surgeon. Marc W. Buie, astronomer at Lowell Observatory Edgar Hull (pre-medical 1923), co-founding physician of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (1931) and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport (1969) Mary Manhein, forensic anthropologist, founding director of FACES at LSU Alex McCool, former manager of the Space Shuttle Projects Office at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama Darrell A. Posey, anthropologist and biologist Wayne Winterrowd (1941–2010), horticulturist and author Sports Football Baseball Men's basketball Women's basketball Golf Gymnastics Women's soccer Wasila Diwura-Soale (born