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John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Louisiana since 2017. A Republican, he served as the Louisiana State Treasurer from 2000 to 2017, as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Revenue from 1996 to 1999, [1] and as special counsel and then cabinet member to Governor Buddy Roemer from 1988 to 1992.
Louisiana was admitted to the Union on April 30, 1812, and elects senators to class 2 and class 3.Its current senators are Republicans Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy. Russell Long was the state's longest serving senator, served 1948–1987.
The 2022 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Louisiana. Incumbent Republican U.S. senator John Kennedy was first elected in 2016. He ran for re-election to a second term, and was re-elected after receiving a majority of votes in the ...
Anthony Kennedy (Maryland politician) (1810–1892), U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1857 to 1863 John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960 John Kennedy (Louisiana politician) (born 1951), U.S. Senator from Louisiana since 2017
Kennedy changed parties and unsuccessfully ran as Republican in 2008 against Louisiana's senior Senator, Democrat Mary Landrieu, but he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016 upon Vitter's retirement. Vitter was the first Republican in Louisiana to be popularly elected as a U.S. Senator.
The 2008 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 4, 2008. This was the first time since the 1970s that Louisiana used primaries for federal races. Incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu won a third term by 6.39 percentage points despite being forecast as one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats during 20
In addition to Kennedy and Campbell, four other candidates — Republicans Charles Boustany, John Fleming, and David Duke, and Democrat Caroline Fayard — qualified to participate at a debate at Dillard University, a historically black college, on November 2, 2016 [4] [5] This election is the most recent United States Senate runoff election in ...
John Kennedy: Republican Louisiana: Louisiana 25th in population (2010) 73 1970 Catherine Cortez Masto: Democratic Nevada: Nevada 35th in population (2010) 74 1972 Tina Smith: Democratic Minnesota: January 3, 2018 75 1974 Cindy Hyde-Smith: Republican Mississippi: April 2, 2018 76 1975 Marsha Blackburn: Republican Tennessee: January 3, 2019