• Frank Fulco, a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972, was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes?

Facts on topics related to Frank Fulco

Huey Long

• Winnfield, home of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame, is known as "the birthplace of Louisiana politics" because three governors, Huey and Earl Long and O.K. Allen, were born there?
• Gerald Long, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, is believed to be the only Long family member to have held significant public office in Louisiana outside the Democratic Party?

Buddy Roemer

• former Louisiana State Senator Lawson Swearingen in 1990 cast one of three critical votes to sustain Governor Buddy Roemer's veto of a restrictive anti-abortion bill?

Shreveport, Louisiana

• Herman Farr, an African American clergyman from Shreveport, Louisiana, single-handedly desegregated the historic Strand Theatre during the heyday of the civil rights movement?
• Liz Swaine was a locally well-known television news anchor who quit to become a mayoral executive assistant and later ran for mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana?
• Lloyd E. Lenard, a Shreveport businessman and author, was a leader in the fight to establish a two-party system in his native Louisiana?
• Rose Van Thyn, a survivor of Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck, became a leading figure in Holocaust education in her adopted city of Shreveport, Louisiana?
• Jerry Wray of Shreveport, Louisiana, moved away from painting landscapes to emphasis on the abstract with Christian themes?
• former Louisiana State Rep. Tommy G. Armstrong of Shreveport is particularly known for his opposition to video poker?
• in 1934 State Representative Rupert Peyton of Shreveport ridiculed Huey P. Long by proposing a bill to grant the title "Your Majesty" to every adult in Louisiana?
• the Shreveport deejay Barney Cannon was particularly knowledgeable about the history of country music, his radio station KWKH-AM, and the former Louisiana Hayride?
• the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans in Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of only a few churches in the world named after St. John Berchmans?