Moon Landrieu (born Maurice Edwin Landrieu; July 23, 1930 – September 5, 2022) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 56th Mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to 1978.

A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New Orleans’ Twelfth Ward in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966, served on the New Orleans City Council as a member-at-large from 1966 to 1970, and was the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1981.

Who is Verna Satterlee?

Moon Landrieu was married to Verna Satterlee. The couple has two children, a son, Mitch Landrieu, and a daughter, Mary Landrieu.

Landrieu married Satterlee on Sept. 25, 1954, gaining not only a wife but a manager for each of his campaigns for the rest of his political life.

Verna Satterlee has not mentioned anything about her personal life to the public.

In the late 1950s, Landrieu became involved in the youth wing of Mayor deLesseps Morrison’s Crescent City Democratic Organization. Running on Morrison’s ticket, Landrieu was elected by the 12th Ward of New Orleans to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1960