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Moon Landrieu

Moon Landrieu
Moon Landrieu official portrait.jpg
7th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
In office
September 24, 1979 – January 20, 1981
President Jimmy Carter
Preceded by Patricia Harris
Succeeded by Samuel Pierce
56th Mayor of New Orleans
In office
May 4, 1970 – May 1, 1978
Preceded by Victor H. Schiro
Succeeded by Ernest Nathan Morial
At Large Member of the New Orleans City Council
In office
1966–1970
Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
In office
1960–1966
Preceded by J. Marshall Brown
Succeeded by Eddie Sapir
Personal details
Born Maurice Edwin Landrieu
(1930-07-23) July 23, 1930 (age 86)
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
Military service
Allegiance  United States
Service/branch  United States Army
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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