Mary Landrieu
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United States Senator from Louisiana | |
In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | J. Bennett Johnston |
| Succeeded by | Bill Cassidy |
| Chair of the Senate Energy Committee | |
In office February 12, 2014 – January 3, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Ron Wyden |
| Succeeded by | Lisa Murkowski |
| Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee | |
In office January 3, 2009 – February 12, 2014 | |
| Preceded by | John Kerry |
| Succeeded by | Maria Cantwell |
| State Treasurer of Louisiana | |
In office January 1, 1987 – January 8, 1996 | |
| Governor | Buddy Roemer Edwin Edwards |
| Preceded by | Mary Evelyn Parker |
| Succeeded by | Ken Duncan |
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| Born | Mary Loretta Landrieu (1955-11-23) November 23, 1955 Arlington, Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Frank Snellings |
| Relations | Mitch Landrieu (brother) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | Moon Landrieu (father) |
| Education | Louisiana State University (BA) |
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Politics portalMary Loretta Landrieu (/ˈlændruː/ LAN-drew;[1] born November 23, 1955) is an American politician, entrepreneur, and former U.S. Senator from the state of Louisiana. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Born in Arlington, Virginia, Landrieu was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the daughter of Moon Landrieu, former New Orleans mayor and Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the sister of Mitch Landrieu, a former Mayor of New Orleans and Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. She received her baccalaureate degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. After working as a real estate agent for several years, she was elected as a state representative (1980–1988) and state treasurer (1988–1996). She won a close race for the U.S. Senate in 1996; she was re-elected by increasing margins in competitive races in 2002 and 2008, but lost in 2014.
Landrieu came to national attention in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 after she publicly criticized the federal response to the natural disaster. Her opposition to the public option played a major role in the crafting of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as she did not agree to support it until additional concessions were granted to support Louisiana's Medicaid system. In 2011, she became a cardinal (chair) of the Senate's Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee. She chaired the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship from 2009 to 2014, and chaired the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 2014 to 2015.
Contents
1 Early life, education, and real estate career
2 Early political career
2.1 State legislature
2.2 State Treasurer
2.3 1995 gubernatorial election
3 U.S. Senate
3.1 Elections
3.2 Tenure
3.2.1 Health care
3.2.2 Hurricane Katrina
3.2.3 Judicial nominations
3.2.4 USA PATRIOT Act
3.2.5 Plot to compromise Landrieu's phone system
3.2.6 "Air Mary" controversy
3.3 Committee assignments
3.4 Caucus memberships
4 Political positions
4.1 Abortion
4.2 Energy
4.3 Guns
4.4 Internet sales tax
4.5 Affordable Care Act
4.6 Same-sex marriage
5 Personal life
6 Electoral history
6.1 1995 gubernatorial election
6.2 1996 Senate election
6.3 2002 Senate election
6.4 2008 Senate election
7 2014 U.S. Senate election
8 Post Senate Career
9 See also
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links
Early life, education, and real estate career
Landrieu was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Verna (née Satterlee) and Moon Landrieu, who served as mayor of New Orleans. She is the sister of Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans and former lieutenant governor of Louisiana.[2] She was raised in New Orleans as a Roman Catholic and attended Ursuline Academy of New Orleans. While a student at Ursuline, Landrieu participated in the Close Up Washington civic education program. She graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1977, where she was a member of Delta Gamma sorority. Before entering politics, she worked as a real estate agent.[citation needed]
Early political career
State legislature
Landrieu was first elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1979, serving from 1980 to 1988 and representing a New Orleans district. She was re-elected to the 90th district in October 1983 with 78% of the vote.[3] In October 1987, she was succeeded in the 90th district by her brother Mitch.[4]
State Treasurer
On January 1, 1987, State Treasurer Mary Evelyn Parker, the longtime Democratic incumbent, resigned with nearly a year and a half left in her fifth term. Landrieu ran to succeed her in both the special and regularly scheduled elections, both held in October 1987. No Republican filed to run, so Landrieu faced only Democratic opponents. She came first on both ballots with 44%. She defeated two legislative colleagues, State Rep. Kevin P. Reilly, Sr., at the time chief executive officer of Lamar Advertising Company in Baton Rouge, who came second in the special and regular elections, with 33% and 32%, respectively, and State Rep. Claude "Buddy" Leach, a former U.S. Representative, who came third in both elections with 15%. Tom Burbank, son of Thomas D. Burbank Sr., former head of the state police, came in last in both elections with 9% of the vote.[5] Reilly decided not to contest a runoff election, known in Louisiana as a "general election", and Landrieu won the treasurer's position by default.[6] In 1991, Landrieu was unopposed for re-election.[7]
1995 gubernatorial election
Landrieu declined to run for a third term as Treasurer, giving up the office to run for governor in the 1995 election. The other major candidates in the race were Democratic U.S. Representative Cleo Fields; State Senator Murphy J. Foster, Jr., who switched his party affiliation from Democratic to Republican when he filed; Democratic attorney Phil Preis; Republican former Governor Buddy Roemer; and Democratic Lieutenant Governor Melinda Schwegmann. Landrieu finished third in the state's nonpartisan blanket primary with 18% of the vote, finishing 8,983 votes behind Fields, who came second with 19% of the vote. Roemer came fourth with 18%, Preis was fifth with 9% and Schwegmann came sixth with 5%. Foster came first with 26% and went on to defeat Fields in the runoff with 64% of the vote. Landrieu was succeeded as state treasurer by her fellow Democrat Ken Duncan, a Baton Rouge attorney and businessman.
U.S. Senate
Elections
Landrieu, an earlier portrait as United States Senator from Louisiana
Landrieu was elected in 1996 to the U.S. Senate seat previously held by John Bennett Johnston, Jr. of Shreveport after winning a close and controversial runoff election.[8] (The runoff election is what other states would call "the general election" of a federal seat.) She defeated Louisiana State Representative Woody Jenkins of Baton Rouge. Landrieu narrowly won re-election in the 2002 mid-term election. She defeated Suzanne Haik Terrell of New Orleans. Some experts and pundits had considered Landrieu as a possible running mate for presidential candidate John Kerry in the 2004 election before he selected then- Senator John Edwards of North Carolina. In 2004 Landrieu became Louisiana's senior senator upon the retirement of John Breaux, who was replaced by Republican David Vitter.[citation needed]
In 2008, she won a relatively comfortable 52% to 46% re-election to a third term in a race against her challenger, Louisiana State Treasurer John Neely Kennedy. He was a former Democrat who switched to the Republican Party in 2007.[9]
Landrieu sought re-election in 2014. Former President Bill Clinton campaigned on her behalf in Louisiana.[10] While Landrieu garnered 42% of the vote she fell short of the 50.1% required for re-election. She was defeated in the December 6, 2014 runoff election by her Republican opponent, Bill Cassidy.[11]
Tenure
In 2002, she voted for the Iraq Resolution, and in 2003, she issued a statement indicating that, "The time for diplomacy has ended."[12] She voted for the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.
In 2005, Landrieu sponsored a resolution, which the Senate passed in an unprecedented action, to formally apologize for its repeated failure in the early twentieth century to pass anti-lynching legislation.[13] The Senate Southern white Democrats had filibustered the Dyer bill in 1922[14] and two other bills that passed the House. She held high-profile hearings on the mistakes of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
Subsequent to the 2006 mid-term elections, in which the Democratic Party gained control of both houses of Congress, Landrieu announced (along with Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine) the formation of the "Common Ground Coalition", a group of moderate senators of both parties, with the goal of finding bipartisan consensus on legislative matters.[15]
Landrieu voted to raise the estate tax exemption to $5 million in 2008,[16] but voted against repeal of the estate tax in 2006.[17]
On December 15, 2008, it was announced that Landrieu would become Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship for the 111th Congress when former Chairman John Kerry left to lead the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, previously headed by Vice President-elect Joe Biden.[18]
In September 2010, Landrieu announced she would hold up OMB director Jacob Lew’s confirmation until the administration lifted or eased a federal freeze on deepwater oil-and-gas drilling. Her delay of Lew's nomination came despite broad bipartisan support for appointing him to OMB. The Senate Budget Committee recommended that Lew be confirmed on a 22–1 vote.[19]
According to the Washington Post, Landrieu "is one of the lawmakers leading for more natural gas exports".[20]
On December 18, 2010, Landrieu voted in favor of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010.[21][22] In 2011, she became Chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, giving her significant influence in the funding of federal agencies like the U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security and FEMA. On April 17, 2013, Landrieu voted to expand background checks for gun purchases.[23]
In April 2014, the United States Senate debated the Minimum Wage Fairness Act (S. 1737; 113th Congress). The bill would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to $10.10 per hour over the course of a two-year period.[24] The bill was strongly supported by President Barack Obama and many of the Democratic Senators, but strongly opposed by Republicans in the Senate and House.[25][26][27] She wanted additional debate on the timeline and the raise for tipped workers.[26] Landrieu said that "I do not believe that $10.10 an hour is too high to aspire to, but how quickly we get there and what increments, the tipped wage, how that should be handled, who should get paid the tipped wage, and who shouldn't. There are a lot of questions about that, and some of those discussions are going on."[26]
Health care
Landrieu opposed the public health insurance option in the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009[28] (HR 3200) until the bill was rewritten to send a $300,000,000 payment to Medicaid for her home state.[29] When two pages were added to the bill to place $300 million in Louisiana's Medicaid system, she changed her web page in order to reflect her support of the program.[30] Conservative figures referred to the deal as the "Louisiana Purchase".[31] A typographical error in the bill resulted in $4.3 billion in additional funds for Medicaid for Louisiana.[32] As a result, prominent conservative figures Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh called her a "high-priced prostitute".[33]
On November 21, 2009, Landrieu voted with fifty-nine other Senators to bring the health care bill up for debate. On December 8, 2009, she voted against the Nelson–Hatch–Casey amendment which proposed to ban federal funding for private plans that covered elective abortions but would have allowed individuals to purchase separate individual riders that would cover abortions.[31] Prior to a concession of $300 million being added to the bill, Landrieu responded to a question on popular support of the public option, and asserted that the option has popular support because "when people hear 'public option' they hear 'free health care'. Everybody wants free health care. Everybody wants health care they don't have to pay for."[34]
Landrieu voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (known as "Obamacare") in December 2009.[35] In September 2013, Landrieu voted to restore funding for the ACA that House Republicans had eliminated in their version of the funding bill.[36][37][38]
On March 1, 2012, Landrieu voted against a measure that would have repealed a birth control mandate in the health care bill.[39] In October 2013, she introduced a bill to force health insurance companies to re-issue plans which they have cancelled.[40]
Hurricane Katrina
Sen. Landrieu (center) joins Women of the Storm from the Gulf Coast
In the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, Landrieu and fellow Senator David Vitter co-sponsored the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief and Economic Recovery Act of 2005 (S.1765),[41] a 440-page aid package worth an estimated $250 billion[42][43] The bill was read twice by Congress, then referred to the United States Senate Committee on Finance.[44]
Separate legislation was passed to provide $1 billion in loans to communities affected by Katrina despite Landrieu's objection to the provision insisted on by Republicans that prohibited the loans from being forgiven. In 2007, when Democrats took control of the House and Senate, they passed legislation written by Landrieu that authorized FEMA to forgive the loans.[45]
However, 40% of the loans were not forgiven by FEMA, which led Landrieu to insert addition provisions into the 2013 federal spending bill to forgive the remainder of these loans.[46][47]
Landrieu's national name recognition rose in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as she made multiple TV appearances to discuss the response effort.[48] Landrieu was noted in The New York Times as becoming "a national spokeswoman for victims of the hurricane" as she complained of "the staggering incompetence of the national government."[49] She was particularly critical of President George W. Bush, who, in turn, was critical of her in his 2010 memoir Decision Points, in which he related telling her to be quiet after she interrupted him in a meeting with what he called an "unproductive emotional outburst".[50]
Judicial nominations
Landrieu voted for the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005,[51] but in 2006, she opposed Samuel Alito; she voted in favor of cloture to send the nomination to an up-or-down vote.[52][53] She voted for both Sonia Sotomayor in 2009 and Elena Kagan in 2010.[54][55]
USA PATRIOT Act
On August 3, 2007, Landrieu broke ranks with Democrats when she and Louisiana Rep. Charlie Melancon sided with Republicans and the Bush Administration in voting for the Protect America Act, an amendment to the USA Patriot Act further expanding wiretap powers.[56]
In 2011, she was the inadvertent Senate sponsor of the four-year extension to the Patriot Act when Senator Reid amended a small business bill introduced by Landrieu as a means of avoiding a threatened filibuster by Senator Rand Paul. Landrieu joined the majority in voting for the extension, which passed 72-23.[57][58]
Plot to compromise Landrieu's phone system
On January 25, 2010, four Republican conservative activists, including Stan Dai, Joseph Basel, both 24; Robert Flanagan, son of Bill Flanagan, acting U.S. Attorney in Louisiana; and conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe, were arrested by US Marshals for their role in a plot to hack the phone system of Landrieu's New Orleans office to record her and her staff's conversations.[59] Two of the alleged co-conspirators posed as telephone repair technicians in order to gain access to the telephone system. O'Keefe admitted to secretly "recording" the interactions with the staff with his cell phone and aiding in the "planning, coordination, and preparation of the operation."[60]
On March 27, 2010, the four were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses, a misdemeanor charge.[61] On May 26, 2010 all four pleaded guilty before Magistrate Daniel Knowles III in a New Orleans federal court. Three of the four received two years' probation, 75 hours of community service and $1,500 fines; while James O'Keefe received a sentence of three years' probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine.[62]
"Air Mary" controversy
There was a controversy over Landrieu's payment of airline flights with Senate money, some of which may have violated campaign finance law.[63] Landrieu's opponents called attention to the controversy, launching a campaign called "Air Mary". Activists dressed as pilots, flight attendants, and ground crew workers greeted her at her campaign appearances.[64][65]
In August 2014 after it was reported that Landrieu violated federal law by using taxpayer dollars to charter at least four private flights to campaign events Landrieu announced that she had ordered an internal investigation into all of her flights during her time in the Senate.[66][67][68][69] In September 2014, Landrieu revealed that the internal investigation into her flights had concluded that since she had entered the Senate she had improperly charged her Senate office $33,700 for private flights to campaign events.[70] Landrieu originally said the charter company mistakenly billed Landrieu's Senate office instead of her re-election campaign.[66][67]
Committee assignments
Committee on Appropriations
- Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
- Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
Subcommittee on Homeland Security (Chair)- Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans' Affairs, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Chair)
- Subcommittee on Energy
- Subcommittee on National Parks
- Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia
- Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration
Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery (Chair)
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship[71]
Caucus memberships
- Senate Oceans Caucus
- Senate Natural Gas Caucus, co-chair
- Congressional Coalition on Adoption, co-chair
- Senate Caucus on Foster Youth, co-chair
Political positions
Landrieu speaks during the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
Landrieu was one of the more conservative Democrats in the U.S. Senate.[72][73][74] The American Conservative Union rated Landrieu as 40% conservative in 2007, which was the highest score of any sitting Democrat and higher than the scores of two Republicans.[75] As of 2012, her lifetime rating is 21%,[76] which is the fourth highest rating among Democrats in the Senate.[77] For 2012 votes, National Journal ranked Landrieu as the 47th-most conservative member of the Senate, while the Times-Picayune found that she voted in support of President Obama's positions 97% of the time.[78]
Abortion
Landrieu supports abortion rights. She has a 100% rating from the pro-choice group NARAL[79] and a 0% rating from the pro-life group Louisiana Right to Life Federation.[80]
Energy
Landrieu voted to confirm Gina McCarthy as the administrator of the EPA[81] Landrieu supports the Keystone Pipeline and has called for President Obama to approve its construction.[72]
Guns
Landrieu has a "C" rating from the National Rifle Association.[82] The NRA endorsed her opponent, Bill Cassidy, in the 2014 Louisiana Senate race.[83]
Internet sales tax
Landrieu voted in favor of an Internet sales tax.[84]
Affordable Care Act
Landrieu voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as "Obamacare".[85] But she withheld her vote until she had secured what is now referred to as the "Louisiana Purchase" originally for up to $300,000,000 in additional Medicaid funds to Louisiana, which, due to a typographical error in the healthcare bill, became an additional $4.3 billion for Louisiana's Medicaid program.[86] When asked by reporters in 2013, Sen. Landrieu said that she would vote for it again if she were given a chance.[87]
Same-sex marriage
Landrieu personally supports same-sex marriage, but defended the state's constitutional ban on the grounds that a majority of Louisianans voted for it.[88]
Personal life
Landrieu and her husband, attorney Frank Snellings, have two children, Connor and Mary Shannon and one grandson, Maddox. In December 2014 Frank was the subject of an article in The Irish Times, having rediscovered his Irish family 44 years after he was adopted in Ireland by the Snellings family from Louisiana.[89]
Electoral history
1995 gubernatorial election
Parishes won by gubernatorial candidates in the October 21, 1995 jungle primary.
Mike Foster (38)
Cleo Fields (18)
Buddy Roemer (4)
Mary Landrieu (2)
Phil Preis (2)
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Mike Foster | 385,267 | 26.10 | |
Democratic | Cleo Fields | 280,921 | 19.03 | |
Democratic | Mary Landrieu | 271,938 | 18.43 | |
Republican | Buddy Roemer | 263,330 | 17.84 | |
Democratic | Phil Preis | 133,271 | 9.03 | |
Democratic | Melinda Schwegmann | 71,288 | 4.83 | |
Democratic | Robert Adley | 27,534 | 1.87 | |
Independent | Arthur D. "Jim" Nichols | 16,616 | 1.13 | |
Democratic | Gene H. Alexander | 5,688 | 0.39 | |
Independent | Kenneth Woods | 4,964 | 0.34 | |
Independent | Darryl Paul Ward | 4,210 | 0.29 | |
Democratic | Belinda Alexandrenko | 3,161 | 0.21 | |
Independent | Lonnie Creech | 2,338 | 0.16 | |
Independent | Ronnie Glynn Johnson | 1,884 | 0.13 | |
Independent | Anne Thompson | 1,416 | 0.1 | |
| Total votes | 1,473,826 | 100 | ||
1996 Senate election
Parishes won by Senate candidates in the November 5, 1996 runoff.
Mary Landrieu
Woody Jenkins
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Woody Jenkins | 322,244 | 26.23 | ||
Democratic | Mary Landrieu | 264,268 | 21.51 | ||
Democratic | Richard Ieyoub | 250,682 | 20.41 | ||
Republican | David Duke | 141,489 | 11.52 | ||
Republican | Jimmy Hayes | 71,699 | 5.84 | ||
Republican | Bill Linder | 58,243 | 4.74 | ||
Republican | Chuck McMains | 45,164 | 3.68 | ||
Republican | Peggy Wilson | 31,877 | 2.6 | ||
Democratic | Troyce Guice | 15,277 | 1.24 | ||
Independent | Nicholas J. Accardo | 10,035 | 0.82 | ||
Independent | Arthur D. "Jim" Nichols | 7,894 | 0.64 | ||
Democratic | Sadie Roberts-Joseph | 4,660 | 0.38 | ||
Independent | Tom Kirk | 1,987 | 0.16 | ||
Independent | Darryl Paul Ward | 1,770 | 0.14 | ||
Independent | Sam Houston Melton, Jr. | 1,270 | 0.1 | ||
Turnout | 1,228,559 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Mary Landrieu | 852,945 | 50.17 | -3.78 | |
Republican | Woody Jenkins | 847,157 | 49.83 | +6.35 | |
| Majority | 5788 | 0.34 | -10.13 | ||
Turnout | 1,700,102 | ||||
Democratic hold | |||||
2002 Senate election
Parishes won by Senate candidates in the December 7, 2002 runoff.
Mary Landrieu
Suzanne Haik Terrell
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Mary Landrieu (Incumbent) | 573,347 | 46.00 | ||
Republican | Suzanne Haik Terrell | 339,506 | 27.24 | ||
Republican | John Cooksey | 171,752 | 13.78 | ||
Republican | Tony Perkins | 119,776 | 9.61 | ||
Democratic | Raymond Brown | 23,553 | 1.89 | ||
Independent | Patrick E. "Live Wire" Landry | 10,442 | 0.84 | ||
Independent | James Lemann | 3,866 | 0.31 | ||
Libertarian | Gary D. Robbins | 2,423 | 0.19 | ||
Republican | Ernest Edward Skillman, Jr. | 1,668 | 0.13 | ||
Turnout | 1,246,333 | ||||
Parishes won by Senate candidates in the November 4, 2008 general election.
Mary Landrieu
John Neely Kennedy
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Mary Landrieu (Incumbent) | 638,654 | 51.70 | +1.53 | |
Republican | Suzanne Haik Terrell | 596,642 | 48.30 | -1.53 | |
| Majority | 42,012 | 3.4 | +3.06 | ||
Turnout | 1,235,296 | ||||
Democratic hold | |||||
2008 Senate election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Mary Landrieu (Incumbent) | 988,298 | 52.11 | +0.41 | |
Republican | John Neely Kennedy | 867,177 | 45.72 | -2.58 | |
Libertarian | Richard Fontanesi | 18,590 | 0.98 | n/a | |
Independent | Jay Patel | 13,729 | 0.72 | n/a | |
Independent | Robert Stewart | 8,780 | 0.46 | n/a | |
| Majority | 121,121 | 6.39 | +2.99 | ||
Turnout | 1,896,574 | ||||
Democratic hold | |||||
2014 U.S. Senate election
Bill Cassidy ran for the Senate in 2014 against three term incumbent Mary Landrieu. Cassidy was endorsed by Republican Senator David Vitter.[92] Cassidy defeated Landrieu in the run-off election held on December 6, 2014, winning 56% of the vote while Landrieu received 44% of the vote. Cassidy thus became the first Republican to occupy the seat since William P. Kellogg left it in 1883.[93]
Jungle primary results by parish
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Mary Landrieu (Incumbent) | 619,402 | 42.08 | |
Republican | Bill Cassidy | 603,048 | 40.97 | |
Republican | Rob Maness | 202,556 | 13.76 | |
Republican | Thomas Clements | 14,173 | 0.96 | |
Libertarian | Brannon McMorris | 13,034 | 0.89 | |
Democratic | Wayne Ables | 11,323 | 0.77 | |
Democratic | William Waymire | 4,673 | 0.32 | |
Democratic | Vallian Senegal | 3,835 | 0.26 | |
| Total votes | 1,473,826 | 100 | ||
Runoff results by parish
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Bill Cassidy | 712,379 | 55.93% | |
Democratic | Mary Landrieu (Incumbent) | 561,210 | 44.07% | |
| Total votes | 1,273,589 | 100.00% | ||
Republican gain from Democratic | ||||
Post Senate Career
Landrieu is a Senior Policy Advisor for Van Ness Feldman, a DC Law Firm.[96] She became a strategic adviser to the Walton Family Foundation in April 2015.[97] Landrieu is also a member of the pro-Israel group American Israel Public Affairs Committee.[98]
See also
- Women in the United States Senate
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Further reading
Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Profile at Vote Smart
Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
External links
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Mary Landrieu at Curlie
Appearances on C-SPAN
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| Preceded by Mary Evelyn Parker | Treasurer of Louisiana 1988–1996 | Succeeded by Ken Duncan |
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| Preceded by Bennett Johnston | Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Louisiana (Class 2) 1996, 2002, 2008, 2014 | Most recent |
| Preceded by Bob Graham | Chair of the Senate New Democrat Coalition 2003–2011 Served alongside: Tom Carper | Position abolished |
U.S. Senate | ||
| Preceded by Bennett Johnston | U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Louisiana 1997–2015 Served alongside: John Breaux, David Vitter | Succeeded by Bill Cassidy |
| Preceded by John Kerry | Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee 2009–2014 | Succeeded by Maria Cantwell |
| Preceded by Ron Wyden | Chair of the Senate Energy Committee 2014–2015 | Succeeded by Lisa Murkowski |
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Louisiana's delegation(s) to the 105th–113th United States Congresses (ordered by seniority) | ||
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105th | Senate: J. Breaux | M. Landrieu | House: B. Livingston | B. Tauzin | R. Baker | J. McCrery | W. Jefferson | J. Cooksey | C. John |
106th | Senate: J. Breaux | M. Landrieu | House: B. Livingston | B. Tauzin | R. Baker | J. McCrery | W. Jefferson | J. Cooksey | C. John | D. Vitter |
107th | Senate: J. Breaux | M. Landrieu | House: B. Tauzin | R. Baker | J. McCrery | W. Jefferson | J. Cooksey | C. John | D. Vitter |
108th | Senate: J. Breaux | M. Landrieu | House: B. Tauzin | R. Baker | J. McCrery | W. Jefferson | C. John | D. Vitter | R. Alexander |
109th | Senate: M. Landrieu | D. Vitter | House: R. Baker | J. McCrery | W. Jefferson | R. Alexander | C. Boustany | B. Jindal | C. Melancon |
110th | Senate: M. Landrieu | D. Vitter | House: R. Baker (until Feb. 2008) | J. McCrery | W. Jefferson | R. Alexander | C. Boustany | B. Jindal (until Jan. 2008) | C. Melancon | D. Cazayoux (from May 2008) | S. Scalise (from May 2008) |
111th | Senate: M. Landrieu | D. Vitter | House: R. Alexander | C. Boustany | C. Melancon | S. Scalise | J. Cao | B. Cassidy | J. Fleming |
112th | Senate: M. Landrieu | D. Vitter | House: R. Alexander | C. Boustany | S. Scalise | B. Cassidy | J. Fleming | J. Landry | C. Richmond |
113th | Senate: M. Landrieu | D. Vitter | House: R. Alexander (until Sep. 2013) | C. Boustany | S. Scalise | B. Cassidy | J. Fleming | C. Richmond | V. McAllister (From Nov. 2013) |
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