His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

Speakers in California, Missouri, Massachusetts and Louisiana favor the 1 handshape over the L and open handshapes, while speakers in Maryland, Washington and Virginia prefer the L and open handshapes.

Many officials, including those from Maryland, Virginia and Louisiana, as well as Chief Justice Chase personally, underscored for the President that the Southern states were economically in a state of chaos and governmental disorganization, and most anxious to reach agreements that would restore them to the Union.

Not to be forgotten are the 56 % of the people who claim Irish ancestry who are Protestant and populate large areas of the southeastern United States especially in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas and Virginia

He gained experience as an executive as the Governor of Virginia and rose to national prominence as a diplomat in France, when he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

A number of southern states, including Arkansas, Louisiana, Virginia, and Florida, subsequently passed interposition and nullification laws in an effort to prevent integration of their schools.

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.

Many of these are blends using staple ingredients of variously cured Burley and Virginia tobaccos which are enhanced by spice tobaccos, among them many Oriental or Balkan varietals, Latakia ( a fire-cured spice tobacco of Syrian origin ), Perique ( uniquely grown in St. James Parish, Louisiana ) which is also an old method of fermentation, or blends of Virginia and Burley tobaccos of African, Indian, or South American origins.

When he was a child, his family moved from Atlanta to Charlottesville, Virginia, where he lived during his adolescence, then moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his father became Dean of Education at Louisiana State University ( LSU ).

In 1992, he was assigned to Fort Monroe, Virginia as the first Director, Louisiana Maneuvers Task Force, Office of Chief of Staff of the Army, a position held until 1994 when he was reassigned to South Korea as the CJG3 of Combined Forces Command and U. S. Forces Korea.

In the half century since Brown, the Court has extended the reach of the Equal Protection Clause to other historically disadvantaged groups, such as women and illegitimate children, although it has applied a somewhat less stringent standard than it has applied to governmental discrimination on the basis of race ( United States v. Virginia, 1996 ; Levy v. Louisiana, 1968 ).

* December 4 – Virginia deGravelles, Louisiana actress

Due to incidences in which these frogs were released and allowed to escape into the wild, African Clawed Frogs are illegal to own, transport or sell without a permit in the following US states: Arizona, California, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, Hawaii, Nevada, and Washington state.

* Southern: based in Atlanta, Georgia, the Southern Region ( R8 ) covers thirteen states ( Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma and Virginia ; and Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands ), and thirty-four National Forests.

* Yellowfin menhaden from Louisiana to Virginia.

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.

As of June 2012, 41 states and the District of Columbia have recognized Juneteenth as either a state holiday or state holiday observance ; these are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

The following courts were subdivided out of existence: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.

Due to its propensity for growing in humid southern locales like Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Eastern North Carolina, southeastern Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, and Alabama, the plant is often associated with Southern Gothic imagery.

Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, he served in the Confederate States Army as a general and commander of Confederate forces prior to the 1863 Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, and of the young Virginia Military Institute cadets, at the 1864 Battle of New Market in New Market, Virginia.

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 ).

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.

Furthermore, westerners were prohibited by Spain ( which then owned Louisiana ) from using the Mississippi River for commercial navigation.

By 1879, the State of Louisiana had adopted a new constitution that prohibited the state's ability to grant slaughterhouse monopolies, devolving regulation of cattle slaughter to the parishes and municipalities, and further banning those subordinate governmental units from granting monopoly rights over such activities.

By the time of the Lawrence decision, nine states − Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia − still banned consensual sodomy without respect to the sex of those involved, and four − Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri − prohibited same-sex couples from engaging in anal and oral sex.

By 1890, lotteries were prohibited in every state except Delaware and Louisiana.

According to the leash laws of Louisiana, dogs are prohibited to run at large at all times of the day.

Louisiana state law prohibited foreign legatees from being able to inherit if the laws of the country in which the legatee resided prevented a citizen of Louisiana from receiving a similar inheritance.

In the state of Louisiana, Damiana is considered a " prohibited plant " along with 39 other plants by Louisiana State Act 159, effective 8 August 2005.

The majorities of the House and the Senate eventually agreed to the Missouri Compromise, which did not include the Tallmadge Amendment, but prohibited slavery in the territories of the Louisiana Purchase above the 36 ˚ 30 ’ parallel.

* Second, the Court noted that under the doctrine set forth in Hans v. Louisiana, the Eleventh Amendment prohibited the plaintiff from suing the state directly in a United States federal court.

As of June 2010, the State of Louisiana has prohibited its marine enforcement officers from enforcing TED and tow time limits.

Throughout the rest of Louisiana, however, open containers are still prohibited, despite the fact that drive-thru frozen daiquiri stands are legal.

Laws banning the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813, and other states soon followed: Indiana ( 1820 ), Tennessee and Virginia ( 1838 ), Alabama ( 1839 ), and Ohio ( 1859 ).

** A plane carrying U. S. Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana and 3 other men vanishes in Alaska.

No Electoral votes were counted from all eleven Southern states, although elections were held in the Union-occupied states of Louisiana and Tennessee, with Lincoln carrying both among 10 % of the 1860 turnout.

On August 30, 2007, a B-52 took off from Minot AFB carrying six cruise missiles with W-80 nuclear warheads to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana.

* Luling Bridge over the Mississippi River in Destrehan, Louisiana ; it was the first cable-stayed bridge in the United States carrying an interstate highway

Clinton also won rural voters in the south and mid-west, carrying states such as Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Louisiana, Georgia, and Iowa ( 57 Electoral Votes ).

On October 20, 1977, three days after the album was released ( and five dates into the band's most successful tour yet ), a plane carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crashed outside of Gillsburg, Mississippi.

" The B-52G of the 2d Bomb Wing, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, " poses " with examples of the various munitions it was capable of carrying, 17 March 1982 ( left to right: B-43, B-61 / 1, B-28, B-53 ).

On October 20, 1977, a plane carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crashed outside of Gillsburg, Mississippi.

In Mississippi, it was the Red Shirts ; in Louisiana, the White League that were paramilitary groups carrying out goals of the Democratic Party to suppress black voting.

The Louisiana National Guard had called almost 3, 500 of its members to state active duty as of 7 a. m. Army Lt. Col. Pete Schneider reported a successful evacuation from the city, crediting the Louisiana Guard's partners in neighboring states for carrying out " a coordinated effort " that incorporated lessons learned from past evacuations.

In response to Governor Blanco's request, President Bush declared a federal state of emergency in Louisiana under the authority of the Stafford Act, which provided a, " means of assistance by the Federal Government to State and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to alleviate the suffering and damage which result from such disasters ,..."