Everything about Louisiana Public Service Commission totally explained
Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) is an independent regulatory agency serving the public of
Louisiana by managing its public utilities and motor carriers. It is the successor to the Railroad Commission of Louisiana. The commission has five elected members chosen by single-member district.
Four PSC members have been elected governor of Louisiana:
Huey Pierce Long, Jr., in
1928,
James Houston "Jimmie" Davis in
1944,
John Julian McKeithen in
1964 and
1968, and
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco in
2003. Another commissioner,
Jay Blossman, abandoned the
2003 governor's race when opinion polls showed that he was making little headway.
John G. Schwegmann, a
New Orleans-area grocery store magnate who was defeated in the
1971 Democratic gubernatorial primary, was thereafter elected to the PSC in the second half of the
1970s.
Foster L. Campbell, Jr., a Democrat from
Bossier City, has served on the PSC since
2002, when he unseated his fellow Democrat Donald Lynn "Don" Owen of
Shreveport, a former newsman for
KSLA-TV. Campbell failed in his own gubernatorial bid in
2007. Owen was elected to the PSC in
1984, when the then
incumbent Francis Edward "Ed" Kennon, Jr., declined to see a third term on the commission. Kennon is descended from a famous Louisiana political family: his uncle
Robert F. Kennon was governor from
1952-
1956. Ed Kennon, a Shreveport
developer, also ran unsuccessfully for
lieutenant governor in the
1971 Democratic
primary.
Another famous member of the PSC was the late
Ernest Clements of
Oberlin in
Allen Parish, a protege of the
Long.
Wade O. Martin, Sr., patriarch of another Louisiana political family, also served on the PSC.
John S. Hunt, III, (
1928-
2001) of
Monroe, a nephew of Huey Long and
Earl Kemp Long, served on the commission from 1964-
1972, when he was succeeded by Ed Kennon. Hunt's mother was Lucille Long Hunt.
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