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19 unusual facts about Mary Landrieu


Allison Kolb

Fellow Democrat Mary Landrieu of New Orleans was elected to succeed her in a special 1987 election held at the same time as the jungle primary for a full term.

Barry Ivey

Only five months into his first term in the state House, Ivey is listed by political analyst John Maginnis as a potential candidate in 2014 for Louisiana's 6th congressional district post being vacated by Republican Bill Cassidy, who is instead challenging U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, a candidate for a fourth term.

Brian Anthony Jackson

In January 2009, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu approached Jackson and encouraged him to become a United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Civil Rights Council

In the United States Senate, 12 Senators co-sponsored the partnering Senate Resolution 1668 the Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act: John Kerry, Chris Dodd, Jack Reed, Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Dick Durbin, President Barack Obama, Bob Menendez, Mary Landrieu, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey and Sherrod Brown.

Denise Majette

She received important endorsements from Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, along with many others in Washington who campaigned and raised money for Majette.

District of Columbia Public Schools

After three U.S. Senators (Ben Cardin of Maryland, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and Carl Levin of Michigan) initially placed "holds" on the bill to prevent its consideration in the United States Senate, the Senate agreed to pass H.R. 2080 without amendment on May 22, 2007 by unanimous consent.

East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

In the 2008 Senate election, Democrat Mary Landrieu who kept her job as a U.S Senator won 57% of the vote and 110,694 votes in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Elizabeth Erny Foote

In February 2009, Foote wrote to Senator Mary Landrieu to discuss being considered for an upcoming vacancy on the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.

Ellen L. Weintraub

During the election contest arising out of the 1996 election of Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Weintraub served on the legal team that advised the Senate Rules Committee.

Jim Letten

Nonetheless, when Republicans lost the Presidency to Democrat Barack Obama in 2008, many Democrats, including U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, took the unusual step of urging the new President to ignore partisan labels and reappoint Letten.

Jimmy Hayes

Republican Louis E. "Woody" Jenkins of Baton Rouge and Democrat Mary Landrieu of New Orleans then advanced to the tightly contested general election, which Landrieu narrowly won.

Pat Brister

In 2013, Brister attended a fundraiser for Democrat U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, a candidate for a fourth term in the 2014 midterm elections.

Randy Ewing

In 2008, Ewing held a fund raiser at his home for Democratic U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, who defeated her Republican opponent, State Treasurer John N. Kennedy, to win a third term.

Richard Zussman

In the summer of 2008, Zussman worked in Washington, D.C. as a television reporter for KTAL in Shreveport, Louisiana covering the Senate race between John Kennedy and incumbent Mary Landrieu.

Sally Clausen

In 2000, she received the "Thinking Outside the Box" Award from U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.

Suzanne Haik Terrell

In 1996, Jenkins had opposed Terrell's later Senate opponent, Mary Landrieu, but he lost by about four thousand disputed votes.

United States Senate election in Georgia, 2004

She received important endorsements from US Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, along with many others in Washington who campaigned and raised money for Majette.

Virgil Orr

Both lost to the Democrat Mary Landrieu, who left the state legislature as Orr was arriving.

W. E. Whetstone

Snellings would later become the father-in-law of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu.


14 Women

When it convened there were fourteen women in the Senate: Barbara Boxer, Maria Cantwell, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Susan Collins, Elizabeth Dole, Dianne Feinstein, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Barbara Mikulski, Lisa Murkowski, Patty Murray, Olympia Snowe, and Debbie Stabenow.

Mitch Stewart

Stewart was a regional field director for the Louisiana Democratic Party during Senator Mary Landrieu's 2002 run-off campaign.