High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Donald Gene Kelly, usually known as Don Kelly (born May 23, 1941), is a prominent trial lawyer and American Quarter Horse breeder in Natchitoches who served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1976 to 1996. His tenure covered three of the four terms of Democratic Governor Edwin Washington Edwards and the single gubernatorial terms of Republican David C. Treen and Democrat-turned-Republican Charles Elston "Buddy" Roemer, III.