Special Collections
University of Louisiana at Monroe Library
VOLUME 2 ISSUE 2
SPRING 2011
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Louisiana Governors
Special Collections is home to two collections containing information about the lives and careers of former Louisiana governors.
The James A. Noe Collection includes primary sources belonging to
the former governor, representative, and businessman. James A. Noe
was a wealthy independent oil man and state Senator who was chosen
by his colleagues to be president pro tempore of the Senate. In 1936,
Noe became governor for a five-month period when Govenor Allen
died in office with no lieutenant governor to succeed him. Noe later
ran for governor twice -- in 1940 and in 1959 but was defeated. However, his business interests were quite successful. Noe founded two
radio stations and one television station. He also promoted the
growth of his oil business which helped support his philanthropy.
Noe was a lifelong supporter of what has become ULM, and that philanthropy has continued through the efforts of his daughter, Linda
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Picture signed “The creation of Northeast College, as Gov. Allen signs my bill, was a happy day for all of the
people of north Louisiana and myself Best regards, James A. Noe” and refers to Senate Bill 175 and Act 231
establishing what has become ULM.
The Luther E. Hall Collection also contains primary
sources and clippings from historic newspapers with information about the Louisiana native who was a reform candidate. Luther E. Hall was born in 1869 in Bastrop. Hall was
encouraged to run for Governor by the Good Government
League and served as Governor between 1912 and 1916. Hall
had been a State Senator and State Judge and was trying to
win nomination to the State Supreme Court in 1921 when he
died of a heart attack. The Collection contains front pages New Orleans Times-Democrat from January
21, 1912 from the Luther E. Hall Collection
and articles from The Daily Independent, a Ouachita Parish
newspaper that was in publication between 1911 and 1912
and other newspapers from around the state. Coverage of the Luther Hall Campaign began
in May of 1911 and continued through January of 1912. This collection is in the process of
Currently on display...
Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame’s
Eastman Award from 2005
Visit Special Collections to see modern and historic photos of ULM spring sports including basketball, baseball and
softball currently on display in the reading room. Also on display are new additions to the Edna Tiny Tarbutton Collection
including the trophy presented to Miss Tarbutton during her
2005 induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in
Knoxville, Tennessee and the trophy basketball that was signed
by fellow inductees. These items and others from the Tarbutton collection are located in the Passman Room. The scorebooks from the eight consecutive state championship seasons
can be accessed on-line through the Louisiana Digital Library
by searching the Edna Tiny Tarbutton collection at
www.louisianadigitallibrary.org.
Special Collections materials including the Gilhula Civil War
and Bateman Military History book collections, faculty publications, local history, rare books, and the political papers of Otto Passman and James A.
Noe are also housed in Special Collections. The Archives area of Special Collections
houses University publications including the collection
of undergraduate and graduate catalogs, the Chacahoula
yearbooks and the campus
newspapers, The Pow Wow
and The Hawkeye. Please
visit Special Collections for
more information.
Northeast Louisiana University Baseball
Warhawk Field