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John Breaux

John Breaux

John Berlinger Breaux (born March 1, 1944) is a United States Senator from Louisiana. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Born in Crowley, Louisiana, he graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1964 and from Louisiana State University Law School in Baton Rouge in 1967.

Breaux was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second Congress in a special election on September 30, 1972, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edwin Edwards. He was re-elected to the seven succeeding Congresses and served until January 3, 1987. He was not a candidate for re-election to the House of Representatives in 1986 but was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1986 and was re-elected in 1992 and again in 1998. He announced that he would not run for re-election in 2004.

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