About
50th Governor of Louisiana for four terms who was in a Federal Prison from 2002 to 2011 following his conviction on racketeering charges.
Before Fame
He served in the U.S. Navy Air Corps near the end of World War II, and preached for the Marksville Church of the Nazarene before getting his law degree from Louisiana State University Law Center and practicing law in Crowley.
Trivia
He served twice as many elected terms as any other Louisiana chief executive and he had the sixth longest serving gubernatorial tenure in US history.
Family Life
In October of 2013 The Governor's Wife, a reality television series starring him and his third wife Trina, who was fifty years his junior, premiered on A&E. He had five children: Anna, Victoria, Stephen, David, and Eli Wallace.
Associated With
President Barack Obama refused to pardon him while he was serving time in a federal prison.
