Gaudin was among a virtual handful of Louisiana legislators who supported a state right-to-work law in his 1967-1968 term.

A cultural and economic conservative with a pro-environment orientation, he was the first Louisiana legislator to warn of "Louisiana's tragic loss of wetland habitat".

She soon saw why: a lot of the plump, prosperous men who ate there were Louisiana legislators.

Another Louisiana legislator, Representative W.J. (Billy) Tauzin, a Democrat, caused a bit of stir last week when he made it clear he could not vote for an energy tax.

Louisiana legislators, led by Representative Robert L. Livingston, a Republican who heads the House Appropriations Committee, are pushing hard for New Orleans.

Each Louisiana legislator may award a tuition waiver-worth some $17,000 in 1993-to one student per year at Tulane University, under an 1884 law approved when the school was converted from a public to a private institution.

Citing Domengeaux's etymology, Louisiana legislators passed a concurrent resolution in the 1980s condemning the word.

There, he is remembered for defending an editorial the paper published that said the Louisiana legislators "have about as much independence as trained seals."

Prior to the 1971 cycle, Louisiana legislators had often been chosen at-large within a parish or from among two or more parishes and not by separate districting.

Morgan was the last surviving Louisiana legislator from the 1929 session and the last to have served in the old state Capitol building.