Richard Phillip Ieyoub, Sr. ( ; August 11, 1944 – April 10, 2023) was an American attorney and politician from the state of

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. He served as the

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from 1992 to 2004. He unsuccessfully ran for governor in

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. Ieyoub's father, Philip, emigrated from

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to Lake Charles, Louisiana, and his mother, Virginia, was a first-generation

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. Ieyoub was inducted into the

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in 2016. Ieyoub and his wife, Caprice, had seven children. He died in

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, on April 10, 2023, at the age of 78, from complications of surgery for a ruptured aneurysm.

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''Ieyoub and Jefferson weigh political futures''
- 8/18/2005, source unknown
''State Attorney General Actions, the Tobacco Litigation, and the Doctrine of Parens Patriae''
- Working abstract by Theodore Eisenburg and Richard Ieyoub
''Richard Ieyoub envisions NASCAR gold''
- Capitol Watch, 9/5/03

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