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Senate Service

Total Number of Senators from Louisiana 48 of 1,851 as of January 2010.

Shortest Service 30 of the 47 have served less than the full six-year term.

Longest Service

(24 years or more)

Russell B. Long served for thirty-eight years; Allen J. Ellender served in the Senate for thirty-five years; J. Bennett Johnson served twenty-four years.

Louisiana Senators Who Served in Leadership Positions

President Pro Tempore Allen J. Ellender

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman J. Bennett Johnston; John Breaux

Democratic Party Whip Russell B. Long

Committee Chairmanships

Agriculture and Forestry Allen J. Ellender

Appropriations Allen J. Ellender

Energy and Natural Resources J. Bennett Johnston

Finance Russell B. Long

Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Mary L. Landrieu

Louisiana Citizens Honored in the Capitol's Art Collection

Huey Pierce Long by Charles Keck (Statuary Hall)

Edward Douglass White by Arthur Morgan (Senate connecting corridor)

Unusual Facts

During his tenure in the Senate, Allan J. Ellender invited fellow senators and administration officials to sample his Creole cooking at luncheons in his third floor Capitol hideaway. Five U.S. presidents sampled his cooking, including President Lyndon B. Johnson, who, enticed by a delicious aroma on a visit to the Capitol, dropped by, uninvited, to sample Ellender's famous shrimp gumbo.

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