Honorable William Jefferson

William J. Jefferson, a Southern University graduate, represented a New Orleans district in the U.S. House from 1991 to 2009. His congressional career later ended in a federal corruption conviction, a fact recorded here because it is part of the public record of that tenure.

U.S. representative from Louisiana, 1991–2009.
Southern University alumnus inducted by the Hall of Fame in 1991.
Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in 1991.