Mary Landrieu

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Mary Landrieu (2009)

Mary Loretta Landrieu (born November 23, 1955 in Arlington , Virginia ) is an American politician ( Democratic Party ). From 1997 to 2015 it belonged to the state of Louisiana to the US Senate on. In November 2014, when she attempted a third re-election, she was resigned from the Senate on January 3, 2015.

Family, education and work

Mary Landrieu grew up in a well-known political family. She is the eldest of nine children of former US Secretary of Construction and Mayor of New Orleans , Moon Landrieu , and his wife Verna. One of her brothers, Mitch , was also Mayor of New Orleans between 2010 and 2018 and was previously Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. Mary Landrieu grew up in New Orleans and studied at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1977). She worked as a broker in the real estate industry.

Landrieu, who is a member of the Roman Catholic Church , is married to lawyer Frank Snellings. The couple has two adopted children.

Political career

Landrieu was after her election in 1979 from 1980 to 1988 as a representative of the 90th electoral district for New Orleans in the House of Representatives of Louisiana . From 1988 to 1996 she was Louisiana's state treasurer . In the 1995 election she ran unsuccessfully for governor of Louisiana.

She was first elected to the US Senate in the 1996 election. Their lead was extremely small with 5,788 of a total of 1.8 million votes cast, which led to an unsuccessful challenge to the result by their Republican adversary Woody Jenkins . The Senate Rules Committee conducted an investigation into possible irregularities, which was unanimously closed on October 1, 1998. She was re-elected in 2002 and 2008 . In 2002, in a tight ballot in the runoff election against Republican Suzanne Haik Terrell, she succeeded in overlaying sociopolitical issues by staging as the advocate of small people against large companies by taking a stand against federal political plans that could have harmed sugar farmers in southern Louisiana. From 2014 until she left the Senate, she was chairwoman of the energy committee . She initiated the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act , the largest one-time investment in environmental protection for the Gulf Coast .

In the runoff election on December 6, 2014, she lost 44.1% of the valid votes to her Republican challenger Bill Cassidy , a doctor and member of the US House of Representatives , who won with 55.9% of the vote. While Landrieu received over 90 percent of the African American vote, Cassidy received over 80 percent of the state's whites. After their attempt to convene Congress to support the new Keystone XL pipeline construction failed, their campaign before the runoff was clearly outdone by the Republican Party with federal funds, while the Federal Democrats - as the loss of their Senate majority had already been determined - were outdone withdrew from the election campaign. With this election, the Republicans were able to expand their newly acquired majority to 54 seats and to expand their dominance in the Senate seats of the southern states ( Solid South ), which had long been dominated by the Democrats . With Landrieu's defeat, the Republicans regained this Senate seat for the first time in 132 years.

According to politics

After leaving the Senate, Landrieu has been advising the Walton Family Foundation on educational issues since 2015 , which Walmart founder Sam Walton founded . She also works as a lobbyist on energy and environmental issues for the fifty-year-old Van Ness Feldman company . Even if Landrieu did not rule out a return to politics in 2015, experts saw it as unlikely that she would run again at the level of her federal state, since the development of the political landscape there to the right leaves democrats little chance. In 2019 she rejected another political candidacy. As a lobbyist for the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana , among others , she works to bring politicians in Washington together for non-partisan cooperation. She taught at certain points in politics, including by 2018 for the Democratic senator in campaigning North Dakota , Heidi Heitkamp , made and the end of 2018 signed a bipartisan open letter earlier senators who on the occasion of the challenged in the political process Special Investigation Robert Mueller concern on the development of the rule of law in the US.

Positions

Landrieu is - like her Senate predecessors from Louisiana, John Breaux and Bennett Johnston - as one of the more conservative politicians in the Democratic Party and describes herself as "moderate" or as a " New Democrat ", who advocates tax cuts and the reduction of bureaucracy. In addition to her work on energy and environmental issues, Landrieu campaigned for women and family issues, especially adoptions, and was involved in educational policy. Landrieu was also often conservative in foreign policy.

literature

  • Landrieu, Mary (b.1955). In: Suzanne O'Dea Schenken: From Suffrage to the Senate. An Encyclopedia of American Women in Politics. With a foreword by Ann W. Richards. Vol. 1: A-M. ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara CA et al. 1999, pp. 390 f.
  • Mary Landrieu (D-La.). In: Karen Foerstel: Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women. Greenwood Press, Westport CT / London 1999, p. 154 f.
  • Angela Kouters: Landrieu, Mary (Mary Loretta Landrieu). In: Lynne E. Ford (Ed.): Encylopedia of Women and American Politics. Facts on File, New York 2008, pp. 279 f.
  • Mary L. Landrieu. In: Joint Committee on Printing (Ed.): 2013–2014: Official Congressional Directory. 113th Congress. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 2013, p. 114.

Web links

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Mary L. Landrieu. In: Joint Committee on Printing (Ed.): 2013–2014: Official Congressional Directory. 113th Congress. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 2013, p. 114.
  2. ^ Mary Landrieu (D-La.). In: Karen Foerstel: Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women. Greenwood Press, Westport CT / London 1999, p. 154 f., Here p. 154 .
  3. ^ Mary Landrieu (D-La.). In: Karen Foerstel: Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women. Greenwood Press, Westport CT / London 1999, p. 154 f., Here p. 154 ; Laura Van Assendelft: Mary Landrieu (1955-). In: Jeffrey D. Schultz, Laura Van Assendelft (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics. Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ 1999, p. 125 .
  4. ↑ Donald P. Haider-Markel (Ed.): Political Encyclopedia of US States and Regions. CQ Press, Washington, DC 2009, p. 238 .
  5. ^ Hannah Northey: Energy talk's on the menu at a Mary Landrieu house party. In: E&E News , March 20, 2019.
  6. ↑ Jonathan Easley: Five Reasons Mary Landrieu Lost. In: The Hill , December 6, 2014.
  7. ^ Philip Bump: Mary Landrieu's Seat Will be Held by a Republican for the First Time in 132 Years. In: The Washington Post , December 7, 2014.
  8. ↑ Bruce Alpert: Former Sen. Mary Landrieu Is Now a 'Strategic Adviser' to Walton Family Foundation. In: The Times-Picayune , April 30, 2015.
  9. ↑ Deborah Barfield Berry: Life After the Senate: What's Mary Landrieu Doing? In: The Times , USA Today , August 14, 2015.
  10. ^ Hannah Northey: Energy talk's on the menu at a Mary Landrieu house party. In: E&E News , March 20, 2019.
  11. ^ Derek Hanson: Mary Landrieu-Former US Senator from Louisiana. In: KFGO.com , October 25, 2018; Kevin Allman: Former US Sens. Mary Landrieu, Bennett Johnston sign letter saying government is entering 'dangerous period'. In: The Advocate , December 11, 2018.
  12. ^ Mary Landrieu (D-La.). In: Karen Foerstel: Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women. Greenwood Press, Westport CT / London 1999, p. 154 f., Here p. 154 .
  13. ↑ Donald P. Haider-Markel (Ed.): Political Encyclopedia of US States and Regions. CQ Press, Washington, DC 2009, p. 238 .
personal data
SURNAME Landrieu, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landrieu, Mary Loretta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Arlington , Virginia