Ruffin Golson Pleasant (June 2, 1871 – September 12, 1937) was the 36th Governor of Louisiana, from 1916 to 1920, who is remembered for having mobilized his state for World War I.

In 1890 he began school at the Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, where he became a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.

After the war, he launched his law practice in Shreveport, a large city by Louisiana standards which is the seat of Caddo Parish in the northwestern corner of the state.

Parker, a friend of Theodore Roosevelt's until their political split in 1916, thereafter returned to the Democratic Party and won the 1920 gubernatorial election with Pleasant's support.

[2] When Pleasant was elected governor, voters also chose Harry D. Wilson, a former state representative from Tangipahoa Parish, who began a 32-year tenure (1916-1948) as the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry.

[3] Pleasant named the cotton farmer C. C. McCrory of Ascension Parish as the adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard.

He was also a delegate to the Democratic convention in 1924, which took 103 ballots to nominate John W. Davis of West Virginia as the party's compromise presidential nominee.

Senator Huey Long for having caused her to be arrested on false charges and for having demeaned her as a "drunken cursing woman" when she sought to examine state public records in the Capitol in Baton Rouge.