 In 2000, although still in the minority, Republican John Hainkel, who served as Speaker of the House as a Democrat under Treen, was appointed by Republican Governor Murphy J.Foster, Jr. to be senate president, the first Republican in over a century.In 2011 the Republicans obtained a majority in the senate, a Republican John Alario, a Democratic Speaker of the House under Edwin Edwards from 1984-88 and again from 1992-96, was appointed senate president by Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, joining Hainkel as the only men to be elected as Speaker of the House and Senate President in Louisiana's history.