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Heather Cloud
Heather Miley Cloud is an American politician, businesswoman, and educator from the state of Louisiana. A Republican, Cloud has represented the 28th district in the Louisiana State Senate since 2020. From 2011 until 2019, Cloud served as the mayor of Turkey Creek, where she and her husband also operate a trucking business and a café. In 2018, Cloud ran in a special election for Louisiana Secretary of State, but came in 8th place with 5% of the vote. In July 2019, Cloud announced her candidacy to succeed term-limited Democratic State Senator Eric LaFleur. That October, Cloud defeated Democratic State Representatives Robert Johnson and Bernard LeBas Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brav ... with 63% of the vote. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cloud, Heather Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana's 28th State Senate District
Louisiana's 28th State Senate district is one of 39 districts in the Louisiana State Senate. It has been represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican Heather Cloud since 2020, succeeding term-limited Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Eric LaFleur. Geography District 28 covers all of Allen Parish, Louisiana, Allen and Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, Evangelina Parishes and parts of Acadia Parish, Louisiana, Acadia, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, Avoyelles, and St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, St. Landry Parishes, including some or all of Kinder, Louisiana, Kinder, Oakdale, Louisiana, Oakdale, Ville Platte, Louisiana, Ville Platte, Mamou, Louisiana, Mamou, Eunice, Louisiana, Eunice, Bunkie, Louisiana, Bunkie, Cottonport, Louisiana, Cottonport, Marksville, Louisiana, Marksville, and Simmesport, Louisiana, Simmesport. The district overlaps with Louisiana's Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, 3rd, Louisiana's 4th congressional district, 4th, and Louisiana's 5th co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard LeBas
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21st-century American Politicians
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Women State Legislators In Louisiana
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Women In Louisiana Politics
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Republican Party Louisiana State Senators
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People From Evangeline Parish, Louisiana
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Living People
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Robert Johnson (Louisiana Politician)
Robert Allen Johnson (born January 1975) is a former Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 28 in Avoyelles Parish in south central Louisiana. He resides in Marksville. While in the House, Johnson was the House Minority Leader, opposite Majority Leader Lance Harris of Alexandria. Education Johnson attended Loyola University New Orleans, from which he earned a Bachelor of Arts in politics in 1997 and a Juris Doctor in 2000 from the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Political career Johnson has previously worked as a prosecutor. In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007, to fill the seat vacated by Democrat Charles Riddle, III, Johnson led by forty-seven votes his Republican opponent, Kirby "Coach" Roy, III (born 1954), a native of Alexandria who relocated to Hessmer in Avoyelles Parish. The presence of two other Democratic candidates compelled a second round of balloting, called the Louisiana general election. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric LaFleur
Eric LaFleur (born March 28, 1964, in Ville Platte, Louisiana) is an American attorney and politician. A Democrat, LaFleur is a former member of the Louisiana State Senate for the 28th district, serving from 2008 until 2020. Earlier he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 38 (Evangeline and St. Landry parishes) from 2000 to 2008. He was first elected without opposition to an open seat vacated by Dirk Deville. He was re-elected four years later in 2003 with 81 percent of the vote. Personal life LaFleur is the son of Dwight LaFleur, a lifelong resident of Ville Platte. He was formerly a merchant and served as an Air Force fighter pilot. His mother, the former Flo Brown, was reared on a rice farm in Chatgaignier, Louisiana, and became a registered nurse. LaFleur attended local schools. He graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, having earned a Bachelor of Arts with three majors, French, Economics, and History. He earned his J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana House Of Representatives
The Louisiana House of Representatives (french: link=no, Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 representatives, each of whom represents approximately 42,500 people (2000 figures). Members serve four-year terms with a term limit of three terms (twelve years). The House is one of the five state legislative lower houses that has a four-year term, as opposed to the near-universal two-year term. The House convenes at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge. Leadership The Speaker of the House presides over the House of Representatives. The speaker is customarily recommended by the governor (although this is not in House rules), then elected by the full House. In addition to presiding over the body, the speaker is also the chief leadership position, and controls the flow of legislation and committee assignments. The Louisiana House of Represe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Founded in 1828, it was predominantly built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled a wide cadre of politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party.M. Philip Lucas, "Martin Van Buren as Party Leader and at Andrew Jackson's Right Hand." in ''A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents 1837–1861'' (2014): 107–129."The Democratic Party, founded in 1828, is the world's oldest political party" states Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s. The party is a big tent, and though it is often described as liberal, it is less ideologically uniform than the Republican Party (with major individuals within it frequently holding widely different political views) due to the broader list of unique voting blocs that compose it. The historical predecessor of the Democratic Party is considered to be th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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