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City of Baton Rouge

City of
Baton Rouge
on the map of East Baton Rouge Parish



Population: 219,531




See
East Baton Rouge
Parish Info
For Officials of the city.


Home Rule Charter




1805 - While counties of the Territory of Orleans are being organized, Baton Rouge is a community of Spanish West Florida.

State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy is provided for by the Constitution of 1845 with funds from Federal land grants. Opened, 1860; closed during Civil War; reopened, 1865, burned, 1869; moved to Institute for Deaf, Dumb, Blind, Baton Rouge. It became Louisiana State University in 1870.

Districts


Congress-
ional
Supreme
Court
Court of Appeals
Circuit ~District
Public
Service
BESESenateHouseJudicial
6 5 1 ~ 2 2,3 6,8 13-18 29, 61-70 19


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Newspapers
Advocate
525 Lafayette St.
P. O. Box 588
Baton Rouge, LA 70821-0588
225.383.1111

Capital City Press, Publisher David Manship, Executive Editor Linda Lightfoot.
 
Central News
12121 Hooper Rd.
Baton Rouge, LA 70818
225.261.9244

Since 1986. Publisher J. W. Fulkerson, Editor Orlette Fulkerson.
 
Daily Reveille (LSU)
B39 Hodges Hall
LSU
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
225.388.4810

Director of Student Media Jon Fisher.
Riverside Reader
235 N. Jefferson Ave.
Baton Rouge, LA 70767
225.336.0749 FAX: 225.336.4157

ed. John Michael Lockhart
pub. John Michael Lockhart

Weekly Press
1384 Swan St.
P. O. Box 74484
Baton Rouge, LA 70874
225.775.2002 FAX: 225.774.4216

ed. Tina Hatch
pub. Ivory Payne
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Updated: Tuesday, July 20, 1999


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