Buddy Leach

Buddy Leach (1979)

Anthony Claude "Buddy" Leach (born March 30, 1934 in Leesville , Vernon Parish , Louisiana ) is a former American politician . Between 1979 and 1981 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Buddy Leach attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1955 at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge . Between 1956 and 1959 he served in the US Army . After a subsequent law degree at Louisiana State University and his admission as a lawyer in 1963, he began to work in Leesville in his new profession. He has also worked in various other industries such as agriculture or the gas and oil industry. In doing so, he became a wealthy man.

Politically, Leach became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1967 and 1978 he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives . In the 1978 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Louisiana , where he succeeded Joe Wagonner on January 3, 1979 . Until January 3, 1981 he could only complete one legislative period in Congress .

Between 1984 and 1988 Leach was again a member of the House of Representatives from Louisiana. In 2003 he applied unsuccessfully for the office of governor of his state: In the first ballot, he took fourth place with 13.8 percent of the votes and was thus eliminated; Kathleen Blanco then won the second ballot . Since January 2010, Buddy Leach has been chairman of the Democrats in Louisiana. He has been married to Laura Alexander since 1969. The couple has three grown children.

Web links

• Buddy Leach in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)