Some Notable Citizens
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Louis Armstrong - Trumpeter, singer and band leader;
helped to make jazz America's only original art music form
Walker Percy - Writer P.G.T. Beauregard - Colorful general of the Confederacy during the Civil War. William Faulkner - Writer, Nobel Laureate Truman Capote - Famous writer. Lillian Hellman - Famous writer. Tennessee Williams - Playwrite Mahalia Jackson - Famous name in the world of gospel singing. Marie Laveau - Queen of voodoo in New Orleans in the early 1800s. "Jelly Roll Morton" (Ferdinand LeMenthe Morton) - Musician,1920's. Born in New Orleans Louis Prima - Musician (trumpet), singer and dancer in the 1930's and the 1940's. Pete Fountain - An icon of Dixieland Jazz born in New Orleans.
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