U.S. District Attorneys in Louisiana
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U.S. District Attorneys in Louisiana
U.S. District Attorneys for Louisiana, 1805-23(may beincomplete!)
JamesBrown 1805-08PhilipGrymes 1808-10TullyRobinson 1810-11JohnR. Grymes 1811-14TullyRobinson 1814JohnDick 1814-21JohnW. Smith 1821-23
U.S. District Attorneys for Louisiana, 1823-1998(may beincomplete!)
JohnW. Smith 1823-29JohnSlidell 1829-33HenryCarlton 1833-36PhilipKissick Lawrence 1836-37ThomasSlidell 1837-38BenjaminF. Linton 1838-41BaliePeyton 1841-45SolomonW. Downs 1845-46ThomasI. Durant 1846-50LoganHunton 1850-53E.Warren Moise 1853-55ThomasS. McCay 1855-56FranklinH. Clack 1856-57ThomasJ. Semmes 1857-59HenryC. Miller 1859-63RufusWaples 1863JamesR. Beckwith 1870AlbertH. Leonard 1878-85CharlesParlange 1885-89WilliamGrant 1889-92FerdinandB. Earhart 1892-96J.Ward Gurley, Jr. 1896-1900WilliamW. Howe 1900-07RufusE. Foster 1907-09CarltonR. Beattie 1909-13WalterGuion 1913-17JosephW. Montgomery 1917-19HenryMooney 1919-21LouisH. Burns 1921-25WayneG. Borah 1925-28EdmondE. Talbot 1928-33WilliamH. Norman 1933ReneA. Viosca 1933-34WarrenDoyle 1934-37ReneA. Viosca 1941RobertWinestein 1941-47HerbertW. Christenberry 1942-47J.Skelly Wright 1948-49JohnM. McKay 1949-50GeorgeR. Blue 1950-53M.Hepburn Many 1953-57KathleenRuddell 1957-61LouisC. LaCour 1961-69GeraldJ. Gallinghouse 1969-78JohnP. Volz 1978-91HarryA. Rosenberg 1991-93RobertJ. Boitmann 1993EddieJ. Jordan, Jr. 1994-98
U.S. District Attorneys for Louisiana, 1972-98(may beincomplete!)
DouglasM. Gonzales 1972-76C.Joseph Cheney, Jr. 1976-77DonaldL. Beckner 1977-81StanfordO. Bardwell, Jr. 1981-86P.Raymond Lamonica 1986-94L.J. Hymel 1994-98
U.S. District Attorneys for Louisiana, 1823-1998(may beincomplete!)
JohnBrownson 1823-30BenjaminF. Linton 1830-41HendersonTaylor 1841-42CalebL. Swayze 1842-49HenryBoyce 1849LawrenceP. Crain 1850-53JosephH. Kilpatrick 1853-54PeterAlexander 1854-56ClaiborneC. Briscoe 1856FloydWalton 1856-60LeonD. Marks 1860JamesR. Beckwith 1870H.B. Talliaferro 1881MiltonC. Elstner 1881-85MontfortS. Jones 1885-89MiltonC. Elstner 1889-93CharlesW. Seals 1893-98MiltonC. Elstner 1898-1910EdwardHughes Randolph 1910-13GeorgeW. Jack 1913-17RobertA. Hunter 1917JosephMoore 1917-21YardellBoatner 1921HughC. Fisher 1921-22PhilipH. Mecom 1922-35BenF. Roberts 1935-37HarveyG. Fields 1937-45MalcolmE. Lafargue 1945-50WilliamJ. Fleniken, Sr. 1950HarveyL. Carey 1950WilliamJ. Fleniken, Jr. 1950-52ThomasF. Wilson 1953-62EdwardL. Shaheen 1962-69DonaldE. Walter 1969-77EdwardL. Shaheen 1977-79JosephR. Keene 1979-81JosephS. Cage, Jr. 1981-93WilliamJ. Flanagan 1993MichaelD. Skinner 1993-98
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