Murphy James "Mike" Foster Jr. was an American businessman and politician who served as the 53rd governor of Louisiana from 1996 to 2004.
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Foster watches as President George W. Bush speaks during a ceremony held to honor the gift of a new firetruck for the city of New York on the South Lawn in 2001
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Murphy James Foster was the 31st governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana, an office he held for two terms from 1892 to 1900. Foster supported the Louisiana Constitution of 1898, which effectively disf
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…of St. Mary Parish. His father, also named Murphy James Foster, was an area sugar planter and owner of oil and natural gas lands, whose own father was Murphy J. Foster Sr., who was Louisiana governor from 1892 to 1900 and a U.S. Senator from 1901 to 1913. Foster attended public high school in Franklin, graduated from…
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Inauguration at the State House, 1892