Dan Claitor
| Daniel Albert "Dan" Claitor | |
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| Member of the Louisiana Senate from the 16th district |
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Assumed office April 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Bill Cassidy |
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| Born |
August 3, 1961 East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Sharmaine Leblanc Claitor |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | Robert Gregory Calitor, Sr. Nancy McLellan Claitor (died 2014) |
| Alma mater |
Robert E. Lee High School |
| Occupation | Attorney |
Robert E. Lee High School
Louisiana State University
Daniel Albert "Dan" Claitor (born August 3, 1961) is a Baton Rouge attorney and a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate.
On April 4, 2009, he defeated fellow Republican Lee Domingue, a Baton Rouge businessman backed by Governor Bobby Jindal, in a special election for the District 16 Senate seat vacated by Republican U.S. Representative Bill Cassidy. Claitor received 11,713 votes (66 percent) to Domingue's 6,114 (34 percent). Prior to Cassidy's short tenure, the seat was held by Louisiana Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne, another Baton Rouge Republican.
Claitor was an unsuccessful candidate for the open seat from Louisiana's 6th congressional district in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on November 4, 2014, in conjunction with the regular general elections in the other 49 states.
The congressional seat was vacated by Bill Cassidy, Claitor's predecessor in the state Senate, who instead ran successfully to unseat Democrat U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. Claitor's intraparty opponents were Garret Graves, State Representative Lenar Whitney and Paul Deitzel, II, of Baton Rouge, namesake grandson of the Louisiana State University football coach and athletic director Paul Dietzel.
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