Fun topic - for the LSU folks - any professors with an interesting political life?

I was thinking about some of the impactful professors I had at LSU and did some research on their bios and stumbled upon some interesting things.

One was this guy named Leszek S. Czarnecki. From his wikipedia page:

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From 1981, when the Marshal Law was imposed in Poland, and the Solidarity movement was de-legalized, Czarnecki was involved in an underground activity aimed at terminating the communist regime and restoring democracy. In 1998, Czarnecki initiated and supervised with his wife, Maria, the process of the adaptation by the Louisiana Parliament of a Resolution[9] that urged the Senate of the United States to include Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary into NATO.

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Those were details I didn't know about his personal life. He was very impactful in his study of non sinusoidal systems and definitely made an impact on the EE world...seemingly as a side hobby apparently.

Another one I remember is Mary Manhein who is also known as "the Bone lady". I took an anthropology elective my freshmen year and remember her showing up the first day of class in a gorilla mask. She is a very high profile forensic anthropologist and was the founder of the FACES lab at LSU in 1990. She has definitely made a huge impact in her field and has been called upon as an expert in missing persons cases and in identifying human remains. I suppose her impact wasn't so much political but she was involved in some very interesting cases including identifying the remains of the deceased in the Colombia shuttle explosion.

Any stories about some professors that went on to do more interesting things outside the scope of their academic life?