Remembering President Jimmy Carter’s impact on Louisiana, from his campaigns to his work with Habitat for Humanity after Hurricane Katrina.
NEW ORLEANS — Former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at 100 years old, carried Louisiana in his 1976 bid for the White House, where he went on to appoint a former New Orleans mayor to his Cabinet. Nearly forty years later, Carter would return to Louisiana in his work with Habitat for Humanity, to help rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
When Carter first ran for president, the former Georgia governor visited New Orleans to campaign and speak to a crowd in Jackson Square. His Oct. 1976 speech included a call for the federal government to share revenue from offshore oil and gas production with no strings attached.
“I think it’s time we had a fair allocation of federal funds to give to local and state governments so …