• Louisiana journalist Robert Angers in 1977 established the International Relations Association of Acadiana to foster goodwill and commerce with French and Spanish-speaking nations?

Facts on topics related to Robert Angers

Louisiana

• conservative radio talk show host Moon Griffon, who broadcasts statewide from Monroe, is sometimes known as the Rush Limbaugh of Louisiana?
• Governor Bobby Jindal named former State Representative Sean Reilly as board chairman of Blueprint Louisiana, a group promoting technology and economic development statewide?
• Judge Guy E. Humphries, Jr., of Alexandria, Louisiana, joined with two friends to form the Renaissance Home for Youth, an alternative to reform school for youthful offenders?
• Louisiana journalist Robert Angers in 1977 established the International Relations Association of Acadiana to foster goodwill and commerce with French and Spanish-speaking nations?
• Louisiana Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand was overruled in 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the exclusion of two blacks as jurors in a high-profile murder case?
• Louisiana State Representative Jim Morris tried without success in 2009 to gain repeal of his state's compulsory motorcyclist helmet law?
• Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp Long, who shared his interest in buttermilk, horse racing, and politicking?
• Louisiana Sheriff Henderson Jordan sought to keep the death car of Bonnie and Clyde to compensate the officers who in 1934 risked their lives to capture the fugitives?
• Louisiana District Judge Stephen J. Windhorst is a former reserve police officer who also served eight years in the Louisiana House of Representatives as an anti-crime advocate?
• Louisiana in 2008 became the fiftieth state to ban cockfighting, nearly two decades after former State Representative Garey Forster led the initial effort to halt the practice?

Acadiana

• Louisiana journalist Robert Angers in 1977 established the International Relations Association of Acadiana to foster goodwill and commerce with French and Spanish-speaking nations?

Lafayette, Louisiana

• Charles deGravelles and his wife, Virginia, of Lafayette, Louisiana, were in 1968 the only married couple in history to serve together on the Republican National Committee?
• as a state legislator Ron Gomez, previously the radio voice of the ULL Ragin' Cajuns, worked to build the team's arena, the Cajundome, in Lafayette, Louisiana?
• former Louisiana GOP committeewoman Virginia deGravelles became in 1941 one of the first two whites to register Republican in Lafayette, now a Republican stronghold?

Lyndon B. Johnson

• U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
• Howard Zahniser died a few months before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, after spending eight years authoring and promoting it?
• The University of Texas Longhorn Band performed for inaugurations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush?
• in 1948, Frank W. Mayborn, a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee?