The Political Graveyard: U.S. District Attorneys in Louisiana

U.S. District Attorneys in Louisiana

U.S. District Attorneys for Louisiana, 1805-23 (may be incomplete!)
James Brown 1805-08 Philip Grymes 1808-10 Tully Robinson 1810-11 John R. Grymes 1811-14 Tully Robinson 1814 John Dick 1814-21 John W. Smith 1821-23

U.S. District Attorneys for Louisiana, 1823-1998 (may be incomplete!)
John W. Smith 1823-29 John Slidell 1829-33 Henry Carlton 1833-36 P. K. Lawrence 1836-37 Thomas Slidell 1837-38 Benjamin F. Linton 1838-41 Balie Peyton 1841-45 Solomon W. Downs 1845-46 Thomas I. Durant 1846-50 Logan Hunton 1850-53 E. Warren Moise 1853-55 Thomas S. McCay 1855-56 Franklin H. Clack 1856-57 Thomas J. Semmes 1857-59 Henry C. Miller 1859-63 Rufus Waples 1863 James R. Beckwith 1870 Albert H. Leonard 1878-85 Charles A. Parlange 1885-89 William Grant 1889-92 Ferdinand B. Earhart 1892-96 J. Ward Gurley, Jr. 1896-1900 William W. Howe 1900-07 Rufus E. Foster 1907-09 Carlton R. Beattie 1909-13 Walter Guion 1913-17 Joseph W. Montgomery 1917-19 Henry Mooney 1919-21 Louis H. Burns 1921-25 Wayne G. Borah 1925-28 Edmond E. Talbot 1928-33 William H. Norman 1933 Rene A. Viosca 1933-34 Warren Doyle 1934-37 Robert Winestein 1941-47 Herbert W. Christenberry 1942-47 J. Skelly Wright 1948-49 John M. McKay 1949-50 George R. Blue 1950-53 M. Hepburn Many 1953-57 Kathleen Ruddell 1957-61 Louis C. LaCour 1961-69 Gerald J. Gallinghouse 1969-78 John P. Volz 1978-91 Harry A. Rosenberg 1991-93 Robert J. Boitmann 1993 Eddie J. Jordan, Jr. 1994-98

U.S. District Attorneys for Louisiana, 1972-98 (may be incomplete!)
Douglas M. Gonzales 1972-76 C. Joseph Cheney, Jr. 1976-77 Donald L. Beckner 1977-81 Stanford O. Bardwell, Jr. 1981-86 P. Raymond Lamonica 1986-94 L. J. Hymel 1994-98

U.S. District Attorneys for Louisiana, 1823-1998 (may be incomplete!)
John Brownson 1823-30 Benjamin F. Linton 1830-41 Henderson Taylor 1841-42 Caleb L. Swayze 1842-49 Henry Boyce 1849 Lawrence P. Crain 1850-53 Joseph H. Kilpatrick 1853-54 Peter Alexander 1854-56 Claiborne C. Briscoe 1856 Floyd Walton 1856-60 Leon D. Marks 1860 James R. Beckwith 1870 H. B. Talliaferro 1881 Milton C. Elstner 1881-85 Montfort S. Jones 1885-89 Milton C. Elstner 1889-93 Charles W. Seals 1893-98 Milton C. Elstner 1898-1910 Edward Hughes Randolph 1910-13 George W. Jack 1913-17 Robert A. Hunter 1917 Joseph Moore 1917-21 Yardell Boatner 1921 Hugh C. Fisher 1921-22 Philip H. Mecom 1922-35 Ben F. Roberts 1935-37 Harvey G. Fields 1937-45 Malcolm E. Lafargue 1945-50 William J. Fleniken, Sr. 1950 Harvey L. Carey 1950 William J. Fleniken, Jr. 1950-52 Thomas F. Wilson 1953-62 Edward L. Shaheen 1962-69 Donald E. Walter 1969-77 Edward L. Shaheen 1977-79 Joseph R. Keene 1979-81 Joseph S. Cage, Jr. 1981-93 William J. Flanagan 1993 Michael D. Skinner 1993-98

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