Rabb, the former Louisiana State field general, came off the bench for his debut with the Bills Sunday and directed his new team to a 22-12 upset victory over the Houston Oilers, defending league champions.

* Edwin Washington Edwards, former Governor of Louisiana, USA

Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

The Louisiana Purchase territory was home for many of the Cajuns after the British forced them to leave from their former home of Nova Scotia, Canada.

Other politicians discussed in the film include former Virginia Representative Ed Schrock, California Representative David Dreier, former New York City mayor Ed Koch, and former Louisiana Representative Jim McCrery.

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36 ° 30 ′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.

* May 23 – A team of police officers, led by former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, ambush bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow near Gibsland, Louisiana, killing them both.

Smith was born on May 12, 1914 in Ferriday in Concordia Parish in eastern Louisiana near Natchez, Mississippi, to Howard K. Smith, a nightwatchman descended from a poor but " gentleman-farming " family in Lettsworth in Pointe Coupee Parish north of Baton Rouge, and the former Minnie Gates, the daughter of a Cajun riverboat pilot.

* Lincoln Park ( New Orleans ), Louisiana, a former amusement park

He is a former reserve commander for the police department in Harahan, Louisiana, working for Chief of Police Peter Dale.

In accordance with the act, several states, " seven of the eleven southern states of the former confederacy " – Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia — were subjected to the procedure of preclearance in 1965, while Texas, home to the majority of the African American population at the time, followed in 1975.

During his twenty-five years at president, Dr. Taylor oversaw the transformation of the former Louisiana Polytechnic Institute into Louisiana Tech University.

Louisiana Tech constructed the building in 1940 and named it after Frank Howard, the former Dean of Engineering at Louisiana Tech.

The conference did not sponsor football until 2001, when the league added former Big West Conference members New Mexico State and North Texas and then-independent Middle Tennessee State as full members and added independent Louisiana – Monroe and Big West member Idaho as " football only " members.

" Dub " Robinson, former tennis coach at Louisiana State University

Reese Witherspoon was born at the former Southern Baptist Hospital ( now the Ochsner Baptist Medical Center ) in New Orleans, Louisiana, while her father was a student at Tulane University medical school.

In 1931, a monument was established at the Union County border with Union Parish, Louisiana, through the private efforts of former Arkansas Governor George Washington Donaghey ( 1856 – 1937 ), who was born in Union Parish and grew up in the border area before he moved as a teenager to Conway, Arkansas.

Dove's seat was previously held by Hunt Downer, a former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

* Neal Lane " Lanny " Johnson, a former Tensas school superintendent and current superintendent in Winnsboro ; Louisiana state representative ( 1976 – 1980 ).

* Dan Richey, former Louisiana State Senator who represented Tensas Parish

The Chickasaws finally were the occasion for the most disastrous wars during the French control of Louisiana.

* French arpent — also used in Louisiana as length and area unit of measure

This created a large anxiety against the French, which influenced the English to either deport many of the French, or as in the case of the Acadians, they migrated to Louisiana.

The Acadian French did create a large French influence in the diet of those settled in Louisiana, but had little or no influence outside of Louisiana.

The lowlands, which included much of the Acadian French regions of Louisiana and the surrounding area, included a varied diet heavily influenced by Africans and Caribbeans, rather than just the French.

Louisiana Creole ( also called French Créole ) refers to native born people of the New Orleans area who are descended from the Colonial French and / or Spanish settlers of Colonial French Louisiana, before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase.

" In this way, the common law was eventually incorporated into the legal systems of every state except Louisiana ( which inherited a civil law system from its French colonizers before the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, adopting a code similar to but not directly based on the Napoleonic Code of 1804 ).

* French group, under which they also included the countries that codified their law either in 19th or in the first half of the 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model ; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Louisiana, states of South America ( such as Brazil ), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon

The common law constitutes the basis of the legal systems of: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, federal law in the United States and the law of individual U. S. states ( except Louisiana ), federal law throughout Canada and the law of the individual provinces and territories ( except Quebec ), Australia ( both federal and individual states ), Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Pakistan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Granadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and many other generally English-speaking countries or Commonwealth countries ( except Scotland, which is bijuridicial, and Malta ).

These territories, however, unlike Nebraska, had not been part of the Louisiana Purchase and had never been subject to the Missouri Compromise.

The Louisiana Territory was broken into smaller portions for administration, and the territories passed slavery laws similar to those in the southern states but trying to encompass the preceding French and Spanish rule ( for instance, Spain had prohibited slavery of Native Americans in 1769, but some slaves of mixed African-Native American descent were still being held in St. Louis when the US took over the Louisiana Territory ).

** U. S. territories that encompassed land that was part of the Louisiana Purchase:

It was bordered by the nation of Mexico to the southwest, the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast, the two US states of Louisiana and Arkansas to the east and northeast, and the United States territories encompassing the current US states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico to the north and west.

** United States doubles its size with territories gained from Napoleon Bonaparte in the Louisiana Purchase.

Napoleon maintained grandiose plans to establish a vast French Empire in Louisiana but the Royal Navy prevented him from transferring troops or settlers to the acquired territories.

France ceded Louisiana and its territories to Spain in 1762.

After the purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to lead an expedition to explore the western territories.

The Eighth Congress of the United States on March 26, 1804, passed legislation entitled " An act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof ", which established Territory of Orleans and the civil District of Louisiana.

** U. S. territories that would later become part of the Territory of Louisiana:

** U. S. territories that included territory that was previously part of the Territory of Louisiana:

France cedes most of its territories in North America to Great Britain, but Louisiana west of the Mississippi River is ceded to Spain.

** Pass the Multistate Bar Examination ( MBE ), in all states / territories except Louisiana, Washington and Puerto Rico.

Although all of these territories would come under British control in the 18th century, only portions of Canada, Acadia and Louisiana became parts of the United States.

Douglas defended his Kansas Nebraska Act, which replaced the Missouri Compromise ban on slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north and west of Missouri with popular sovereignty, which allowed residents of territories such as the Kansas to vote either for or against slavery.

** U. S. territories that included territory that was previously part of the District of Louisiana:

Purchases include the Louisiana and Oregon territories ; Florida and Alaska ; funding the National Road and the Transcontinental Railroad ; building many of the nation's lighthouses ; the U. S. Military and Naval academies, and Washington D. C.

Similarly, as a result of debts incurred fighting the slave revolt, Napoleon was forced to sell the American government its territories in Louisiana at a heavily discounted price.

Recent work camps and service trips include India ; Nicaragua ; Cuba ; Costa Rica ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Coastal Mississippi ; Israel and The Palestinian territories ; France ; South Africa ; Arizona ; New Orleans, Louisiana ; Americus, Georgia ; South Carolina ; Virginia Beach, Virginia ; Washington, D. C .; West Virginia ; South Korea ; and Vietnam.

Annexed by Britain in exchange for its cession of the Red River Valley, the northernmost parts of the Louisiana Purchase are one of the few North American territories ever ceded by the United States to a foreign power.

His maps of Canada and of French territories in North America ( New France, Acadia, Louisiana ) are particularly valuable.