Representative in the 12th-17th Congresses

From its founding in 1812, until the division into multiple districts, Louisiana

Louisiana

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

 had only one congressional district. During that time, three people represented the state At-large

At-Large

At-large is a designation for representative members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent the whole membership of the body , rather than a subset of that membership...

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Representative	Party	Years	Electoral history
Statehood achieved April 30, 1812
Thomas B. Robertson Thomas B. Robertson Thomas Bolling Robertson was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana, the third Governor and the Attorney General of Louisiana, and a United States federal judge....	Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Party (United States) The Democratic-Republican Party or Republican Party was an American political party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Political scientists use the former name, while historians prefer the latter one; contemporaries generally called the party the "Republicans", along...	April 30, 1812 - April 20, 1818	Resigned
Vacant		April 20, 1818 - November 16, 1818
Thomas Butler Thomas Butler (U. S. Representative) Thomas Butler was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He served one and a half terms as a Democratic-Republican....	Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Party (United States) The Democratic-Republican Party or Republican Party was an American political party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Political scientists use the former name, while historians prefer the latter one; contemporaries generally called the party the "Republicans", along...	November 16, 1818 - March 3, 1821	Lost renomination
Josiah S. Johnston Josiah S. Johnston Josiah Stoddard Johnston was a United States Representative and Senator from Louisiana. Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, he moved with his father to Kentucky in 1788, and went to Connecticut to attend primary school...	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823	Lost re-election
District inactive, returned to district representation

Representative in the 43rd Congress

In the 43rd Congress

43rd United States Congress

The Forty-third United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1873 to March 4, 1875, during the fifth and sixth...

, Louisiana had eight representatives. Seven were assigned a district and one represented the state at-large

At-Large

At-large is a designation for representative members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent the whole membership of the body , rather than a subset of that membership...

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Representative	Party	Years	Electoral history
Eight seats divided among seven districts, with one seat at-large		March 4, 1873
George A. Sheridan George A. Sheridan George Augustus Sheridan was an American politician, most notably serving in the House of Representatives for one term...	Liberal Republican	March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875
Eight seats divided among eight districts, without at-large seat

At-large seat eliminated March 4, 1875