Morganza High School was a high school located at 752 South Louisiana Highway 3050 in the village of Morganza

Morganza, Louisiana

Morganza is an incorporated village near the Mississippi River in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 659 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area. The village's zip code is 70759...

, 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...

. The school was established in 1906 as a three-room school building. It was closed as a high school in the early 1980s. The school's mascot was the Tigers. The former high school building later became home to Morganza Elementary which was administered by the Pointe Coupee Parish School Board

Pointe Coupee Parish School Board

Pointe Coupee Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in unincorporated Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States.The district serves Pointe Coupee Parish.-7-12 schools:* Livonia High School -K-8 schools:...

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The school buildings and grounds are currently being used as a law enforcement training facility for the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office

Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office

The Pointe Coupee Sheriff's Office is the chief law enforcement agency in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. The sheriff's office is responsible for routine law enforcment patrols in the parish. There are several divisions besides the road patrol...

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John B. Fournet

John B. Fournet

John Baptiste Fournet was a Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, lieutenant governor of his state, and associate justice and Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court...

, later a supporter of Huey Pierce Long, Jr.

Huey Long

Huey Pierce Long, Jr. , nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928–1932 and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. Though a backer of Franklin D...

, Speaker

Speaker (politics)

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 of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Louisiana State Legislature

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, lieutenant governor

Lieutenant governor

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, and associate and Chief Justice

Chief Justice

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 of the Louisiana Supreme Court

Louisiana Supreme Court

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, was the principal of Morganza High School in the 1916-1917 academic year.