David Vitter
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United States Senator from Louisiana |
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In office January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | John Breaux |
| Succeeded by | John Neely Kennedy |
| Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee | |
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In office January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Maria Cantwell |
| Succeeded by | Jim Risch |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 1st district |
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In office May 29, 1999 – January 3, 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Livingston |
| Succeeded by | Bobby Jindal |
| Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 81st district |
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In office 1992–1999 |
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| Preceded by | David Duke |
| Succeeded by | Jennifer Sneed Heebe |
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David Bruce Vitter May 3, 1961 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Wendy Baldwin |
| Children | 4 |
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Harvard University (BA) Magdalen College, Oxford (BA) Tulane University (JD) |
| Occupation | Lawyer; lobbyist |
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| Website | Senate website (Archived) |
David Bruce Vitter (born May 3, 1961) is an American politician who served as United States Senator for Louisiana from 2005 to 2017. He was the first Republican elected to the Senate from his state since the Reconstruction Era. Previously, he served in the United States House of Representatives, representing the suburban Louisiana's 1st congressional district. He served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives before entering the U.S. House.
After his Senate term ended, Vitter joined the Washington, D.C., lobbying firm, Mercury LCC, for which he will focus such issues as energy, transportation, banking, the judiciary, military, and small business.
In 2010, Vitter won a second Senate term by defeating a Democrat, then U.S. Representative Charlie Melancon of Napoleonville in Assumption Parish. In the Republican primary held on August 28, 2010, Vitter handily defeated former Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Chet D. Traylor of Monroe, formerly from Winnsboro.
Vitter unsuccessfully ran for governor to succeed the term-limited Bobby Jindal in the 2015 gubernatorial election. He lost in the general election to Democrat John Bel Edwards, a state representative from Tangipahoa Parish, in the November 21 general election for the governorship, who led a multi-candidate field in the primary. After conceding defeat to Edwards, Vitter announced that he would not seek reelection to his Senate seat in 2016 and would retire from office at the completion of his term. Upon taking office as governor, Edwards appointed Vitter's former Senate opponent, Charlie Melancon, to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, but Melancon left that post after less than a year of service.
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