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Louisiana is known for many things --- the bayous, GREAT food, good times, and........
LIONISM
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First, just a little history lesson..
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Louisiana was originally in District 5 which included East Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida
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Leon T. Kahn of Shreveport was the first Louisiana Governor appointed in 1918
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In 1921, District 5 was reduced to Louisiana and Mississippi
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In 1922 at the International Convention in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi were separated into two districts with Louisiana being assigned as District 8. There were 3 clubs in existance: Shreveport Downtown, Monroe Downtown, and New Orleans
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In 1940, Louisiana was subdivided into two districts (A and B)
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In 1944 another subdivision gave Louisiana 3 districts (A, B,and C)
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In 1950, at the MD convention in New Orleans, Louisiana was again subdivided into the five districts still in existance today (L,I,O,N,S)
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One club, the Shreveport Downtown Lions, was a charter member of Lions Clubs International (1917), and they existed before LCI as the Shreveport Commercial Men’s Club (formed in 1914)
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Today, Louisiana has 218 chartered clubs with approximately 7000 members supporting two statewide projects with combined annual budgets in excess of One Million Dollars, multiple out-of-state and international projects, and their local communities
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