State Executive
State Legislature
Local Government
Taxes and Royalties
Notable Governors
100
This person is in charge of the state of Louisiana. He/she is somewhat like being president.
Who is the governor?
100
There are this may senators in the Louisiana legislature.
What is 39?
100
This person is the official head of a city or town in the State of Louisiana.
Who is the Mayor?
100
This type of tax is imposed on property or land.
What is property tax?
100
This person is our current governor today.
Who is Bobby Jindal?
200
This elected official acts like vice president of the state. He/she is also head of the Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism.
Who is the Lieutenant Governor?
200
This word refers to the change along legislative boundaries so that each "district" has about the same population as the others.
What is reapportionment?
200
This elected official is the head of a parish in the State of Louisiana.
Who is the Parish President?
200
This type of tax is imposed on things we buy everyday.
What is sales tax?
200
She was Louisiana's first female governor and was governor during Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005.
Who is Kathleen Babineaux Blanco?
300
This elected official was in charge of keeping Louisiana's official records and of general elections in Louisiana; this official is also the keeper of the Great Seal of Louisiana.
Who is the Secretary of State?
300
This is how may representatives we have in the Louisiana legislature.
What is 105?
300
This person is in charge of local official records, such as marriage licenses.
Who is the Clerk of Court?
300
This tax is imposed on items such as liquor, cigarettes, etc.
What is excess tax?
300
This former governor is known of the creation of the 1974 constitution, his four terms as governor, his convictions, and the A&E television reality show "The Governor's Wife."
Who is Edwin Edwards?
400
This official is in charge of the state's money and of unclaimed property in the state.
Who is the treasurer?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
400
This person is head prosecutor for a parish or city during a trial in a court of law.
Who is the District attorney?
400
This tax is paid when resources are removed from Louisiana land.
What is severance tax?
400
This governor was known for having the new State Capitol building constructed in the 1930s and has a bridge here named in his honor.
Who was Huey Long?
500
This official represents the state during a trial and if chief attorneys of all attorneys in the state.
Who is the attorney general?
500
These are used by the government a lot to avoid giving too much power to one branch or another. They were imposed on Louisiana legislators in 1995.
What are term limits?
500
This official is the chief law enforcement officer and tax collector of a city or parish.
Who is the sheriff?
500
These are paid to landowners by big companies when they [the companies] drill through the land for resources such as oil and gas.
What are oil and gas royalties?
500
He was Louisiana's first governor after it became a U.S. state.
Who was William C. C. Claiborne?
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