Ben Bagert (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bernard John "Ben" Bagert, Jr. (born January 10, 1944) is a prominent New Orleans attorney who was a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from 1970-1992. As a legislator, Bagert was known as a politician who did not follow structured party dogma. A cultural and economic conservative with a pro-environment orientation, he was the first Louisiana legislator to warn of "Louisiana's tragic loss of wetland habitat." He consistently opposed taxes and the expansion of government programs and enacted bills to reform the "welfare laws" that were then in effect.