Louisiana governors : rulers, rascals, and reformers / / Walter Greaves Cowan and Jack B. McGuire

• Autore: Cowan Walter G
• Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.3009/9; B
• Soggetto topico: Governors - Louisiana; Governors - Louisiana - History
• Soggetto geografico: Louisiana Biography; Louisiana Politics and government
• Altri autori: McGuireJack B
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville et d'Ardillieres (1699-1702); Sieur de Sauvole (1699-1700); Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville (1701-1713; 1716-1717; 1718-1725; 1733-1743); Antoine de Lamothe, Sieur de Cadillac (1713-1716); Jean Michel De l'Epinay (1717-1718); Pierre Sidrac Dugué, Sieur de Boisbriant (1725-1727); Etienne de Perier (1727-1733); Pierre de Rigaud de Cavagnial, Marquis de Vaudreuil (1743-1753); Louis Billouart, Chevalier de Kerlerec (1753-1763); Jean Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie (1763-1765); Charles Philippe Aubry (1765-1766) ; Antonio de Ulloa de la Torre-Guiral (1765-1768)Alejandro O'Reilly (1769); Luis Unzaga y Amerzaga (1769-1777); Bernardo de Galvez (1777-1782); Esteban Rodriguez Miro (1782-1791); Francois-Louis Hector, Baron de Carondelet et Noyelles (1791-1797); Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (1797-1799); Sebastian Calvo de la Puerta Y O'Fariel, Marquis de Casa Calvo (1799-1801); Juan Manuel de Salcedo (1801-1803); Transfer; William Charles Cole Claiborne (1803-1812; 1812-1816); Jacques Philippe Villere (1816-1820); Thomas Bolling Robertson (1820-1824); Five Governors (1824-1831); Andre Bienvenu Roman (1831-1835 ; 1839-1843)Edward Douglass White (1835-1839); Alexandre Mouton (1843-1846); Isaac Johnson (1846-1850); Joseph Marshall Walker (1850-1853); Paul Octave Hebert (1853-1856); Robert C. Wickliffe (1856-1860); Thomas O. Moore (1860-1864); George F. Shepley (1862-1864); Michael Hahn (1864-1865); Henry Watkins Allen (1864-1865); James Madison Wells (1865-1867); Benjamin Franklin Flanders (1867-1868); Joshua Baker (1868); Henry Clay Warmoth (1868-1872); P. B. S. Pinchback (1872-1873); John McEnery (1873); William Pitt Kellogg (1873-1876); Francis R. T. Nicholls (1877-1880; 1888-1892) ; Louis Alfred Wiltz (1880-1881)Samuel D. McEnery (1881-1888); Murphy J. Foster (1892-1900); William Wright Heard (1900-1904); Newton Crain Blanchard (1904-1908); Jared Y. Sanders (1908-1912); Luther E. Hall (1912-1916); Ruffin G. Pleasant (1916-1920); John M. Parker (1920-1924); Henry L. Fuqua (1924-1926); Oramel H. Simpson (1926-1928); Huey P. Long (1928-1932); Alvin O. King (1932); Oscar K. Allen (1932-1936); James A. Noe (1936); Richard W. Leche (1936-1939); Earl K. Long (1939-1940; 1948-1952; 1956-1960); Sam Houston Jones (1940-1944); Jimmie H. Davis (1944-1948; 1960-1964) ; Robert F. Kennon (1952-1956)John J. McKeithen (1964-1972); Edwin W. Edwards (1972-1980; 1984-1988: 1992-1996); David Treen (1980-1984); Buddy Roemer (1988-1992); Murphy J. "Mike" Foster Jr. (1996-2004); Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (2004-2008); Bobby Jindal (2008- ); Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Walter Greaves Cowan and Jack B. McGuire, veteran authorities on the Louisiana political scene, trace the history of the state's leaders from the French and Spanish colonial eras to the present day. Using a variety of sources, including personal interviews with the recent governors, they describe unforgettable personalities. Such early figures as Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville set the tone for later colonial governors. They had their troubles, fending off protesting Indians and other French and Spanish leaders vying for power. Following the Louisiana Purcha
• Titolo autorizzato: Louisiana governors
• ISBN: 1-282-48570-9; 1-282-48597-0; 9786612485701; 9786612485978; 1-60473-320-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811386203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II