Cleo Fields

Cleo Fields

Cleo Fields (born November 22, 1962 in Baton Rouge , Louisiana ) is an American politician . Between 1993 and 1997 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Cleo Fields attended the schools of his home country and studied at Southern University until 1984 . After studying law at the same university, he began practicing as a lawyer. Fields founded the Young Adults for Positive Action movement . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1986 and 1992 he was a member of the Louisiana Senate . In 1990 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In the 1992 congressional elections , Fields was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Louisiana , where he succeeded Jim McCrery , who moved to the fifth district, on January 3, 1993 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1997. In 1996 he declined to run again.

In 1995, he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Louisiana: with 36.5 percent of the vote, he was clearly defeated by Republican candidate Mike Foster . In 1997, he was briefly suspected of bribery because he is said to have accepted cash from Governor Edwin Edwards , who has now been convicted of corruption . The matter was not pursued further because Fields held no public office at the time and the financial transaction with Edwards was declared a private matter. He then started his own law firm. To this day he works as a lawyer.

Web links

• Cleo Fields in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)