representative from Louisiana's 5th congressional district (R) Scott Crichton (Class of 1976), judge of the Louisiana 1st Judicial District Court in Shreveport since 1991 (R) Jay Dardenne, Louisiana lieutenant governor and former secretary of state and state senator (R) George W. D'Artois, public safety commissioner in Shreveport 1962–1976 (D) Jackson B. Davis, state senator for Caddo Parish and long-term attorney in Shreveport; obtained B.A. and M. A. degrees from LSU in 1936 and 1937, respectively Jimmie Davis, singer, Louisiana governor (1944-48, 1960-64), and Shreveport public service commissioner (D) Paula Davis, state representative for East Baton Rouge Parish since 2015 Jay Dean, mayor of Longview, Texas, 2005–2015; incoming Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, effective 2017; born in Opelousas in 1953 Cleveland Dear, late U.S. representative, district attorney, and state district court judge (D) C. H. "Sammy" Downs (Class of 1933, master's in education), member of both houses of the Louisiana legislature from Rapides Parish and advisor to Governors Earl Kemp Long and John McKeithen R. Harmon Drew, Sr., Law school, state representative and Minden city judge (D) David Duke, former state representative and U.S. Senate and gubernatorial candidate (R), white supremacist and neo-Nazi Stephen Dwight, incoming 2016 District 35 member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (R) Mike Edmonson, superintendent of the Louisiana State Police since 2008 (R) Edwin Edwards, only four-term governor of Louisiana (D) and former U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 7th Congressional District John Bel Edwards, Governor of Louisiana since 2016 (D) Charles Wheaton Elam (Class of 1887), lawyer and state representative from DeSoto Parish (D) Dale M. Erdey (Class of 1976), state senator from Livingston Parish (R) F–H Maxime Faget, NASA engineering and development director Jimmy Field (Class of 1963), member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, 1996–2012 (R) Lee Fletcher, advertising executive and radio talk show host in Monroe, unsuccessful congressional candidate in 2002 (R) Carlos Roberto Flores, former President of Honduras C.B. Forgotston, late attorney, political activist, and state government watchdog (Independent) Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr., former state senator and governor of Louisiana 1996–2004 (R) John B. Fournet (1895–1984), Speaker of the Louisiana House, lieutenant governor, associate and chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court (D) Bobby Freeman, former state representative and Louisiana lieutenant governor (D) Mike Futrell (Class of 1982), former state representative and Metro Council member (R) Ryan Gatti (Class of 1995), state senator for District 36 since 2016; Bossier