Mary Loretta Landrieu is an American entrepreneur and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana from 1997 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Landrieu served as the Louisiana State Treasurer from 1988 to 1996, and in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1980 to 1988.
Official portrait, 2009
Landrieu, during the 108th Congress as United States Senator from Louisiana
Sen. Landrieu (center) joins Women of the Storm from the Gulf Coast
Landrieu speaks during the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
Moon Edwin Landrieu was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 56th mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to 1978. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New Orleans' Twelfth Ward in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966, served on the New Orleans City Council as a member at-large from 1966 to 1970, and was the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. president Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1981.
Moon Landrieu
Landrieu with the president, Jimmy Carter, in New Orleans in 1979