The Louisiana Legislature adopted the official flag in 1912.  It consisted of a field of solid blue with a pelican group from the state seal in white and gold.  This flag is still in use today.  In 1932 a new 34 story state capitol was constructed in Baton Rouge at the direction of Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long.
        Senator and former governor Huey P. Long was assassinated in the Capitol at Baton Rouge in 1935.  Tulane defeated Temple in the Sugar Bowl game that year also.
        John McKeithen became the first governor of the twentieth century in 1968 and served two consecutive terms.  The Superdome opened in New Orleans in 1975.  In 1977 Dutch Morail was elected the black mayor of New Orleans.  In 1980 David Conner Treen took office as the first Republican Governor in over one hundred years.  Edwin Edwards became the first Louisiana governor to be elected to a third term in 1983.
        In 1984 the Louisiana Exposition welcomed millions of visitors to New Orleans.  The Louisiana State Archives Building opened in1987.  Renovation to the Louisiana's Old Capitol began in 1991.  This was to provide a home for the Louisiana Center for Political and Governmental History.   Edwin Edwards was inaugurated for a fourth term in 1992
        In present day Louisiana thirty-four percent of Louisiana's land is used to provide a living for over 14,000 farm families, with 20,000 hired workers, to produce Louisiana farm products.  Rice contributes to 11% of the total farm production in the state.  This ranks Louisiana third in the nation in production of rice.  Agriculture in Louisiana consists of cotton (21%), soybeans (13%), broilers (11%), cattle and calves (11%), sugarcane (11%), dairy products (9%), and all other agriculture products (23%).  This is an annual business valued at $1.9 billion.
        Louisiana produces nearly $49 billion worth of products annually including clothing, plastics, chemicals, petroleum, wallboard, condiments, industrial alcohol, wood products, cement, glass, seafood, and drugs.   Approximately 4,200 manufacturing units employ around 163,950 wage and salary workers with annual earnings of $4.3 billion.

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