Moon Landrieu
| Moon Landrieu | |
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| 7th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | |
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In office September 24, 1979 – January 20, 1981 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Patricia Harris |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Pierce |
| 56th Mayor of New Orleans | |
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In office May 4, 1970 – May 1, 1978 |
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| Preceded by | Victor H. Schiro |
| Succeeded by | Ernest Nathan Morial |
| At Large Member of the New Orleans City Council | |
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In office 1966–1970 |
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| Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives | |
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In office 1960–1966 |
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| Preceded by | J. Marshall Brown |
| Succeeded by | Eddie Sapir |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Maurice Edwin Landrieu July 23, 1930 Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Verna Satterlee Landrieu |
| Children |
Mary Mark Melanie Michelle Mitchell Madeleine Martin Melinda Maurice, Jr |
| Alma mater | Loyola University New Orleans |
| Profession | Attorney; Politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Years of service | 1954-1957 |
Maurice Edwin Landrieu, known as Moon Landrieu (born July 23, 1930), is a Democratic politician from Louisiana who served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to 1978. He also is a former judge. He represented New Orleans' Twelfth Ward in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966, served on the New Orleans City Council as a member at-large from 1966 to 1970 and was the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1981.
Moon Landrieu was born in Uptown New Orleans, the son of Loretta (née Bechtel) and Joseph G. Landrieu, the owner of a small corner grocery. Joseph's paternal great-grandparents, Geoffroy Stanislas Landrieu and Melanie LeMoine, had immigrated to New Orleans from France in 1848. Maurice acquired the nickname "Moon" in his early childhood and later had his name legally changed. He went to Jesuit High School. A promising athlete, Landrieu won a baseball scholarship at Loyola University New Orleans, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in business administration in 1952 and a law degree in 1954. As an undergraduate, he was elected student body president at Loyola. After a three-year stint in the United States Army, Landrieu opened a law practice and taught accounting at Loyola. In 1954, Landrieu married Verna Satterlee, with whom he had nine children (Mary, Mark, Melanie, Michelle, Mitchell, Madeleine, Martin, Melinda, and Maurice, Jr.).
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