LSU (R) Clyde F. Bel, Jr., businessman and state representative for Orleans Parish, 1964–1972 and 1975–1980 Ashley Bell, National Director of African American Engagement Office; Director of the Small Business Administration's Southeast Region Stuart Bishop, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lafayette (R) Morton Blackwell, Republican National Committeeman from Virginia, formerly a political activist in Louisiana (R) James E. Bolin, late former state representative (1940–1944); 26th Judicial District Court judge, 1952–1960; state appeal court judge, 1960–1978 (D) Charles Boustany, physician, former U.S. representative from Louisiana's 7th congressional district (R) Mike Branch, commercial pilot from Las Vegas, Nevada, who served in the Louisiana State Senate 1996–2000 (R) Donna Brazile, political strategist for Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign (D) John Breaux, former United States senator (D) Overton Brooks, late U.S. congressman from Shreveport (D) Edwin S. Broussard (Class of 1896), former United States senator, 1921–1933 (D) Chad M. Brown, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Iberville and Assumption parishes, effective 2016 Henry Newton Brown, Jr., former Bossier/Webster Parish district attorney and current chief judge of Second Circuit Court of Appeal (D) William Denis Brown, III (1931–2012), lawyer, businessman, state senator from Monroe (D) Roy Brun, former state legislator and current district judge in Shreveport (R) C–E Burl Cain, departing warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola) Bill Callegari (Class of 1963; Agricultural Engineering), member of the Texas House of Representatives from Harris County, 2001–2015; the William A. Callegari Environmental Center at LSU is named in his honor (R) William Derwood Cann, Jr. (1919–2010), World War II lieutenant colonel; mayor of Monroe 1978–1979 (D) Thomas G. Carmody (Class of 1983), state representative from Shreveport (R) Edward M. Carmouche (Class of 1943, 1921–1990), chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party 1966–1968; attorney in Lake Charles Davy Carter, Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives, completed LSU Banking School; attorney and banker Steve Carter, former LSU men's tennis coach and assistant athletic director; state representative from Baton Rouge (R) James Carville, chief political strategist for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign (D) Jack Christian, late businessman, mayor-president in East Baton Rouge Parish, 1957–1964 (D) Marcus R. Clark, justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court (R) Thomas G. Clausen, M.A. degree from LSU, Louisiana state education superintendent, 1984–1988 (D) George Henry Clinton (Class of 1889), member of both houses of the state legislature from Tensas Parish (D) John Cooksey, physician, former U.S.