Editing Lake Providence, Louisiana (section)

==Notable people==
[[Image:Revised, First Baptist Ch., Lake Providence, LA IMG 7415 1.jpg|thumb|First Baptist Church at 304 Davis Street in Lake Providence]]
* [[Clifford Cleveland Brooks]], planter in [[St. Joseph, Louisiana|St. Joseph]], represented East Carroll Parish in the [[Louisiana State Senate|state senate]] from 1924 to 1932.<ref>Henry E. Chambers, ''History of Louisiana'', Vol. 2 ([[Chicago]] and [[New York City]]: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925, p. 71)</ref>
* [[Vail M. Delony]], [[Louisiana State Legislature|state representative]] from East Carroll Parish, 1940–1967; [[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]] of the Louisiana House, 1964–1967.
* [[Leonard Griffin (American football)|Leonard Griffin]], NFL player
* [[William J. Jefferson]], former U.S. representative from [[Louisiana's 2nd congressional district]]; convicted felon.
* [[Joseph Kerr]], U.S. Senator; moved to Lake Providence as an adult.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = KERR, Joseph, (1765 - 1837) | dictionary = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000141 | access-date = March 7, 2014}}</ref>  Kerr's son, Joseph Kerr Jr., was born at Lake Providence, and died in the [[Battle of the Alamo]].<ref>{{cite web | last =  Groneman | first = Bill | title = KERR, JOSEPH | publisher = Texas State Historical Association | date = June 15, 2010 | url = http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke71}}</ref>
* [[Joseph E. Ransdell]], Lake Providence lawyer and planter; former member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] and three-term [[U.S. Senator]].
* [[Vivien Theodore Thomas]], an American laboratory supervisor who developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease) in the 1940s.
* [[Norris C. Williamson]], state senator from the Delta parishes from 1916 to 1932<ref>Frederick W. Williamson and George T. Goodman, eds. ''Eastern Louisiana: A History of the Watershed of the Ouachita River and the Florida Parishes'', 3 vols. ([[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]]: Historical Record Association, 1939), pp. 770–773</ref>
* [[Edith Wilmans]], first woman elected to the [[Texas State Legislature]]<ref name="tshaonline.org">{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwi48|title=WILMANS, EDITH EUNICE THERREL|work=tshaonline.org|access-date=September 14, 2015}}</ref>
*[[John D. Winters]], Civil War historian 
* [[Charles Wyly|Charles]] and [[Sam Wyly]], billionaire entrepreneur brothers, founders of [[Uccel]], [[Sterling Software]], and [[Green Mountain Energy]]; the Tower of Learning at [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] is named in honor of Charles Wyly.