Former Governors - Louisiana

Governor's Name State Time in Office Party
Gov. John Bel Edwards Louisiana 2020 - 2024
2016 - 2020
Democratic
Gov. Bobby Jindal Louisiana 2008 - 2016
Republican
Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Louisiana 2004 - 2008
Democratic
Gov. Mike Foster Louisiana 1992 - 2004
Republican
Gov. Edwin Washington Edwards Louisiana 1988 - 1992
1972 - 1980
Democratic
Gov. Buddy Elson Roemer Louisiana 1988 - 1992
Democratic, Republican
Gov. David C. Treen Louisiana 1980 - 1984
Republican
Gov. John Julian McKeithen Louisiana 1964 - 1972
Democratic
Gov. James Houston Davis Louisiana 1960 - 1964
1944 - 1948
Democratic
Gov. Earl Kemp Long Louisiana 1956 - 1960
1948 - 1952
1939 - 1940
Democratic
Gov. Robert Floyd Kennon Louisiana 1952 - 1956
Democratic
Gov. Sam Houston Jones Louisiana 1940 - 1944
Democratic
Gov. Richard Webster Leche Louisiana 1936 - 1939
Democratic
Gov. James Albert Noe Louisiana 1936 - 1936
Democratic
Gov. Oscar Kelly Allen Louisiana 1932 - 1936
Democratic
Gov. Alvin Olin King Louisiana 1932 - 1932
Democratic
Gov. Huey Pierce Long Louisiana 1928 - 1932
Democratic
Gov. Oramel Hinckley Simpson Louisiana 1926 - 1928
Methodist
Gov. Henry L. Fuqua Louisiana 1924 - 1926
Democratic
Gov. John Milliken Parker Louisiana 1920 - 1924
Democratic; Progressive
Gov. Ruffin G. Pleasant Louisiana 1916 - 1920
Democratic
Gov. Luther Egbert Hall Louisiana 1912 - 1916
Democratic
Gov. Jared Young Sanders Louisiana 1908 - 1912
Democratic
Gov. Newton Crain Blanchard Louisiana 1904 - 1908
Democratic
Gov. William Wright Heard Louisiana 1900 - 1904
Democratic
Gov. Murphy James Foster Louisiana 1892 - 1900
Democratic
Gov. Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls Louisiana 1888 - 1892
1877 - 1889
Democratic
Gov. Samuel Douglas McEnery Louisiana 1881 - 1888
Democratic
Gov. Louis Aflred Wiltz Louisiana 1880 - 1881
Democratic
Gov. John McEnery Louisiana 1873 - 1873
Democrat;Liberal Republican
Gov. William Pitt Kellogg Louisiana 1873 - 1877
Republican
Gov. Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback Louisiana 1872 - 1873
Republican
Gov. Henry Clay Warmoth Louisiana 1868 - 1872
Republican
Gov. Joshua Baker Louisiana 1868 - 1868
Democrat/Unionist
Gov. Benjamin Franklin Flanders Louisiana 1867 - 1868
Republican
Gov. James Madison Wells Louisiana 1865 - 1867
Republican
Gov. Michael Hahn Louisiana 1864 - 1865
Republican
Gov. Henry Watkins Allen Louisiana 1864 - 1865
Democratic
Gov. George Foster Shepley Louisiana 1862 - 1864
Federal Military Rule
Gov. Thomas Overton Moore Louisiana 1860 - 1864
Democratic
Gov. Robert Wickliffe Louisiana 1856 - 1860
Democratic
Gov. Paul Octave Hebert Louisiana 1853 - 1856
Democratic
Gov. Joseph Marshall Walker Louisiana 1850 - 1853
Democratic
Gov. Isaac Johnson Louisiana 1846 - 1850
Democratic
Gov. Alexandre Mouton Louisiana 1843 - 1846
Democratic
Gov. Edward Douglass White Louisiana 1835 - 1839
Whig
Gov. Andre Bienvenu Roman Louisiana 1831 - 1835
Whig
Gov. Jacques Dupre Louisiana 1830 - 1831
Jeffersonian Republican
Gov. Pierre Auguste Charles Bourguignon Derbigny Louisiana 1829 - 1829
Jeffersonian Republican
Gov. Armand Beauvais Louisiana 1829 - 1830
Jeffersonian-Republican
Gov. Henry S. Johnson Louisiana 1824 - 1828
Jeffersonian-Republican
Gov. Henry Schuyler Thibodeaux Louisiana 1824 - 1824
Jeffersonian-Republican
Gov. Thomas Bolling Robertson Louisiana 1820 - 1824
Jeffersonian-Republican
Gov. Jacques Philippe Villere Louisiana 1816 - 1820
Jeffersonian-Republican
Gov. William Charles Cole Claiborne Louisiana 1812 - 1816
Jeffersonian-Republican

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