Bogalusa is a city in Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 13,365 at the 2000 United States Census. It is the principal city of the Bogalusa Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Washington Parish and is also part of the larger New Orleans, Louisiana-Metairie, Louisiana-Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area.

Bogalusa was the home of Sixty Rayburn (1916-2008), a 44-year member of the Louisiana State Legislature, a confidant of the Huey Long dynasty, and a favorite of organized labor. Because of his power and longevity, Rayburn was often called'the Dean'of the Louisiana Senate. His son, Benny Rayburn...

Bogalusa is a city in Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 13,365 at the 2000 United States Census. It is the principal city of the Bogalusa Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Washington Parish and is also part of the larger New Orleans, Louisiana-Metairie, Louisiana-Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area.

Bogalusa was the home of Sixty Rayburn (1916-2008), a 44-year member of the Louisiana State Legislature, a confidant of the Huey Long dynasty, and a favorite of organized labor. Because of his power and longevity, Rayburn was often called'the Dean'of the Louisiana Senate. His son, Benny Rayburn (1944-2006), served as sheriff of Washington Parish.

Tom Colten, later the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, was the business manger of the Bogalusa Daily News from 1948 until his relocation in 1955 to Minden, Louisiana in Webster Parish, where he served two terms as mayor.

Economy
Bogalusa was founded by the Goodyears of Buffalo, New York, who started the Great Southern Lumber Company in 1906. The saw mill was the largest saw mill in the world at that time and for many years. Bogalusa is famous for its reforestation program.

In 1938, the Goodyears had ended its lumber operations at the Great Southern Lumber Company and sold the paper mill operations. The current owner is the Temple-Inland Corporation] the area largest employer.