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with Mary Landrieu on May 17, 2006
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with Mary Landrieu on May 17, 2006
Mary Loretta Landrieu is the senior Democratic United States senator from the state of Louisiana. She is the daughter of former New Orleans mayor Maurice Edwin “Moon” Landrieu.
She was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1980 to 1988. She then served as Louisiana state treasurer from 1988 to 1996. Landrieu was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1995 gubernatorial race in Louisiana.
Landrieu was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. She defeated the Republican candidate Woody Jenkins of Baton Rouge by 5,788 votes out of 1.7 million cast, the narrowest national result of the 33 races for the U.S. Senate that year and one of the closest election margins in Louisiana history. Jenkins lobbied the U.S. Senate for new balloting, but after ten months the Senate let the election result stand
Hurricane Katrina destroyed Landrieu’s lakeside New Orleans home. The senator has become a national spokeswoman for victims of the hurricane and has complained of ‘the staggering incompetence of the national government.”
