In what year was the Louisiana Governor who appointed Henry "Tank" Powell to the Louisiana Board of Pardons born?
Henry &quot;Tank&quot; Powell Henry Watson Powell, known as Henry "Tank" Powell (born July 18, 1945), is an insurance agent in Ponchatoula in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, who served as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 73 from 1996 until term-limited in 2008. He and Leonard R. "Pop" Hataway, former sheriff of Grant Parish, were subsequently appointed in 2008 by Governor Bobby Jindal to the five-member Louisiana Board of Pardons. In 2012, Powell and Hataway were reappointed to the pardon board, a part-time position that pays $36,000 annually.
Republican Party of Louisiana The Republican Party of Louisiana is the U.S. state of Louisiana's organization of the national Republican Party. The state chairman is Roger F. Villere, Jr., a businessman from Metairie in Jefferson Parish, who has been repeatedly re-elected since 2004. Since the late 20th century, white conservatives in the states have mostly shifted to the Republican Party from the Democratic Party. s of 2016 , every statewide elected official in Louisiana, with the exception of the governor, is a Republican.