Who are next year’s Louisiana Political Hall of Fame inductees? – Louisana Illuminator
The Louisiana Political Hall of Fame, located in Winnfield, has released its latest list of inductees.
Here are the 2024 class members:
Gov. John Bel Edwards
Edwards, a Democrat, is closing out his second and final term as Louisiana’s governor after winning an initial upset election in 2015. The governor also served eight years in the Louisiana House of Representatives, where he was the House Democratic Caucus chairman during his last term.
Edwards was already honored by the hall of fame as a member of the Edwards family. His father and brother both served as Tangipahoa sheriff and they were all recognized as a “Louisiana Political Family of Office Holders” in 2014.
Former Times-Picayune reporter Ed Anderson
Anderson worked for The Times-Picayune for 44 years as a reporter and editor, and spent 24 of those years covering state politics at the Louisiana Capitol before he left the newspaper in 2013. During his tenure in Baton Rouge, Anderson covered six governors – Dave Treen, Buddy Roemer, Edwin Edwards, Kathleen Blanco and Bobby Jindal. He died in 2015 at the age of 67.
Former Public Service Commissioner Louis Lambert
Lambert ran for governor in 1979 and lost to Dave Treen in one of the state’s closest elections in recent history. In addition to serving on the Public Service Commission, Lambert represented Prairieville in the Louisiana Senate.
Louisiana Chemical Association leader and lobbyist Dan Borné
Borné served as the president of the influential Louisiana Chemical Association, which represents manufacturers, for 30 years before retiring in 2016. He also worked as a political aide to former Gov. Edwin Edwards and U.S. Sen. Russell Long, among others. Early in his professional life, he was a reporter for WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge.
Borné is also well known for being the public address announcer at LSU’s Tiger Stadium and the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
Radio talk show host Jim Engster
Engster is a longtime radio journalist and host of “Talk Louisiana.” He is also the owner and president of Louisiana Radio Network, which provides news statewide, and president of Tiger Rag, a sports magazine devoted to LSU.
Carter family of St. Helena parish (including state Rep. Robby Carter)
State Rep. Robby Carter represented St. Helena Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1996 to 2008, and then returned to that seat in 2016. He is expected to seek reelection to another term this fall.
His father, Burrell, served as a state district and appeals court judge, and Carter’s mother, Helen, served on the board of the Louisiana Community and Technical College system.
Former State Rep. Joe Delpit
Delpit served as the first Black councilman for the City of Baton Rouge and is the former president of the Baton Rouge chapter of the NAACP. While in the Legislature, he was also elected Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives in 1984, making him the highest-ranked Black elected official since Reconstruction at the time.
Delpit aowns the Chicken Shack, a beloved Baton Rouge restaurant started by his father.
Political donor Richard Lipsey
Lipsey is the owner of Lipsey’s, a nationwide porting goods and firearms distributor. A major political contributor to both Democrats and Republicans, Lipsey has also served on the LSU Board of Supervisors and the Louisiana Board of Regents.
This year’s nominees will join a handful of people still active in Louisiana government and politics already among the nearly 200 members in the hall of fame.
That list includes state Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon, state Sen. Greg Tarver, Congressman Steve Scalise, Columnist James Gill, LSU professor Bob Mann, state Rep. Francis Thompson and Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell.
The induction ceremony is expected to take place next April.
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