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Mayor From To Party Notes Angus McNeill: 1836: 1839: None: President of Shreve Town Co. John Octavius Sewall: 1839: 1840: Whig: First Elected Mayor William Walton George, M.D.: 1840
The state of Louisiana is served by the following area codes: 225, which serves the Baton Rouge area and parts of south central Louisiana. 318, which serves northern Louisiana. 337, which serves southwestern Louisiana. 504, which serves the New Orleans area. 985, which serves the sections of southeast Louisiana which are not within the 504 area ...
Area code 504 as of 1947–1957. Area code 504 is a telephone area code that covers greater New Orleans, Louisiana. Besides New Orleans itself (Orleans Parish), it includes all of St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes and most of Jefferson Parish . 504 was one of the original area codes created in 1947, and originally covered all of Louisiana.
Chi Chi DeVayne (1985–2020), drag queen and entertainer. Virginia Hewitt (1925-1986), American actress. Jared Leto, Oscar-winning actor. Joshua Logan (1908–1988), Broadway director of South Pacific and Mister Roberts; born in Texarkana, Texas, but raised in Shreveport. Dottye Dimple Brown Mason (1920 – 2003), was working as a stewardess ...
Orleans Parish: 071: New Orleans: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. Today coterminous with the City of New Orleans. Named after Philippe, Duke of Orléans, the regent of France 364,136: 350 sq mi (906 km 2) Ouachita Parish: 073: Monroe: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. The Ouachita Native American people 157,568: 633 sq mi (1,639 km ...
The New Orleans metropolitan area, designated the New Orleans–Metairie metropolitan statistical area by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, [3] or simply Greater New Orleans (French: Grande Nouvelle-Orléans, Spanish: Gran Nueva Orleans), is a metropolitan statistical area designated by the United States Census Bureau encompassing seven Louisiana parishes—the equivalent of counties ...
Rank Name Image Location Height feet (m) Floors Year Notes 1 Hancock Whitney Center: New Orleans: 697 (212) 51 1972 Has been the tallest building in New Orleans and Louisiana since 1972; tallest building in the Southeastern United States at the time of its completion; first Southeastern skyscraper to rise higher than 656 feet (200 m); tallest building constructed in the city in the 1970s.
Campus currently a Jesuit scholasticate, retreat center, and retirement home. St. Mary's Dominican College, New Orleans, 1860–1984 — closed; Straight University, New Orleans, 1868–1934 — merged to form Dillard University