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    Louis Alfred Wiltz (January 21, 1843 – October 16, 1881) was an American politician from the state of Louisiana. He served as 29th Governor of Louisiana...
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  • Sobel 1978, pp. 574–575. "Louis Aflred Wiltz". National Governors Association. Retrieved March 2, 2023. "Louis Alfred Wiltz". Secretary of State of Louisiana...
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  • (river), a river in Belgium and Luxembourg that flows through the town People Jason Wiltz (born 1976), American football player Louis A. Wiltz, (1843-1881)...
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    of the convict lease system, state Treasurer Edward A. Burke, and Lieutenant Governor Louis A. Wiltz, who supported the corrupt Louisiana Lottery. Nicholls...
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    became Governor of Louisiana in 1881 after the death of Louis A. Wiltz. McEnery was elected to a full term as governor in 1884, but failed to be re-elected...
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  • This is a list of United States governors who died in office....
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  • New Orleans, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad. In his newly adopted city Burke developed a friendship with Louis A. Wiltz, at the time, a politically ambitious...
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    take place under the Louisiana Constitution of 1879. As a result of this election Louis A. Wiltz became Governor of Louisiana. The election saw widespread...
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    since 1930, New Orleans has used a two-round system with a preliminary round and a runoff if no candidate reached a majority in the first round. All mayors...
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    1836–1921) was a soldier, businessman, editor, and African-American Republican politician in Louisiana during the Reconstruction era. He was born as a free man...
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  • "transformed the Yazoo Valley into an inland lake." Mayor Louis A. Wiltz of New Orleans published a circular on 30 May addressed to "the Mayors of thirty-four...
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  • (d. 1971) March 11 – Harry H. Laughlin, eugenicist (d. 1943) March 28 – Louis Wolheim, character actor (d. 1931) April 18 – Sam Crawford, baseball player...
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    states, along with a few non-Southern states doing the same as well. This resulted essentially in a one-party system, in which a candidate's victory...
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    "transformed the Yazoo Valley into an inland lake." Mayor Louis A. Wiltz of New Orleans published a circular on May 30 addressed to "the Mayors of thirty-four...
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    office in Louisiana. The current lieutenant governor is Billy Nungesser, a Republican. The lieutenant governor is also the commissioner of the Louisiana...
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  • workers in Baltimore, Maryland lead to a sympathy strike in Pittsburgh, and a worker's rebellion in St. Louis before U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes...
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  • president expired. Elected a Democrat, Alexandre Mouton, as a minority-party Speaker. Elected a Democrat, Alcée Louis la Branche, as a minority-party Speaker...
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    Benjamin Franklin Flanders (January 26, 1816 – March 13, 1896) was a teacher, politician and planter in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1867, he was appointed...
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    erection of a monument to Robert E. Lee. In 1880, Governor Louis A. Wiltz appointed Fenner to the newly reorganized state supreme court for a four-year...
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    Jindal appointed the first Republican speaker in over a hundred years even though the Democrats held a small majority. When Democrat John Bel Edwards succeeded...
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    Phillip DeVillier. The Louisiana Constitution of 1812 did not provide for a lieutenant governor to preside over the state senate and allowed the president...
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  • 14 – Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate (died 1966) September 19 – Louis Joseph Vance, novelist (died 1933) October 2 – Wallace Stevens, poet (died...
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  • Connecticut Register and Manual 1915". 1915. p. 100. Crane, Louis Hall DeLoss (1859). "A Manual of Customs, Precedents, and Forms in Use in the Assembly...
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  • Robinson, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1925 to 1935 (died 1961) March 13 – Louis Chauvin, ragtime pianist (died 1908) March 29 – Raymond Hood, Art Deco architect...
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  • United States. President: Rutherford B. Hayes (R-Ohio) Vice President: William A. Wheeler (R-New York) Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (Ohio) Speaker of the...
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  • Senator representing Concordia Parish from 1880 to 1884. When Governor Louis A. Wiltz died in 1881, Lieutenant Governor Samuel D. McEnery assumed the governorship...
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    take over the legislature en masse, by having their elected Speaker, Louis A. Wiltz, former mayor of New Orleans, take the chair immediately when they entered...
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    elected first as a Unionist to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1862, as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 1865, and later as a Republican to the...
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  • 37th mayor of New Orleans (November 30, 1874 – December 19, 1876). Leeds was a member of the white supremacist organization White League and had furnished...
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    following is a list of elections in Mayor of New Orleans and a summary of their results. Since 1930, New Orleans has used a two-round system with a preliminary...
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