The former governor has a tuition-free scholarship in his name for incoming first-year students, along with a historical marker located near Alexandria Hall. Member of the Country Music Hall of Fame
C. H. "Sammy" Downs (Class of 1932, 1911–1985), member of both houses of the Louisiana state legislature from Rapides Parish and advisor to Governors Earl Kemp Long and John McKeithen
Rufus D. Hayes (1913–2002), first Louisiana insurance commissioner, 1957–1964
Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick (1918-2014), member of Louisiana Board of Regents; state Baptist official; wife of Claude Kirkpatrick
Richard Land (born 1946), member of the Board of Reference for the establishment of Judge Paul Pressler School of Law in Shreveport
George S. Long (1883–1958), U.S. representative from the defunct Eighth Congressional District
Lance Harris (born 1961), Republican majority leader of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2013-20 and representative from the 25th District of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2012-2024
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