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'''John Calvin Fleming, Jr.''' (born July 5, 1951 in Meridian, [[Mississippi]]) currently serves as the [[Republican]] U.S. Representative from [[Louisiana]]'s 4th congressional district, representing the cities of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] (Fleming's city of residence), [[Shreveport]], DeRidder, Bossier City, and Natchitoches. He was elected in 2008 by just 356 votes, the closest House race that year, when he defeated the Caddo Parish District Attorney Paul Carmouche, a [[Democrat]]. Carmouche earlier had defeated fellow Democrat [[John Milkovich]] for the party nomination. Milkovich resurfaced in 2015 to claim the District 38 seat in the Louisiana State Senate.

'''John Calvin Fleming, Jr.''' (born July 5, 1951 in Meridian, [[Mississippi]]) is the [[Republican]] U.S. Representative for [[Louisiana]]'s 4th congressional district, representing the cities of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] (his city of residence), [[Shreveport]], DeRidder, Bossier City, and Natchitoches. He was elected in 2008 by 356 votes, the closest House race that year, when he defeated the Caddo Parish District Attorney Paul Carmouche, a [[Democrat]]. Carmouche earlier had defeated fellow Democrat [[John Milkovich]] for the party's U.S. House nomination. Milkovich, a conservative Democrat, resurfaced in 2015 to claim the District 38 seat in the Louisiana State Senate.

Fleming, a physician and businessman, serves on the Armed Services Committee and Natural Resources Committee.

A physician and businessman, Fleming served on the Armed Services and Natural Resources committees.

Fleming's predecessors in the Fourth District seat were Republican [[Jim McCrery]] and Democrats [[Buddy Roemer]], Claude "Buddy" Leach, and [[Joe Waggonner]].

Fleming's predecessors in the Fourth District seat were Republican Jim McCrery and Democrats [[Buddy Roemer]], Claude "Buddy" Leach, and [[Joe Waggonner]].

Fleming leaves the House in January 2017. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in the November 8, 2016, primary election held in conjunction with the presidential election. The incumbent [[David Vitter]] did not seek a third term after having lost a race for governor in 2015. Fleming carried six parishes and finished fifth in the voting with 203,959 votes (11 percent). In sixth place was retired [[United States Air Force]] Colonel [[Rob Maness]], a Senate candidate from 2014 who had been urged by Fleming supporters to drop out of the 2016 race and instead to endorse Fleming. [[David Duke]], a former figure in the [[Ku Klux Klan]] who joined the GOP in 1989, ran seventh with 58,581 votes (3 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical|title=Election Returns|date=November 8, 2016|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 10, 2016}]</ref> In the December 10 runoff election, Republican state Treasurer John Neely Kennedy faces Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell, a Democrat from Bossier Parish whose political career began as a state senator in 1976. Prognosticators view Kennedy of St. Tammany Parish in south Louisiana as the heavy favorite in that race.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/politics/elections/article_5bc8107e-a6d2-11e6-8011-9f0284eb23bf.html|title=Foster Campbell seen as facing steep climb in U.S. Senate race against John Kennedy|publisher=''Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Tyler Bridges|date=November 9, 2016|accessdate=November 10, 2016}}</ref>  

Fleming vacates his House seat on January 3, 2017. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in the November 8, 2016, primary election held in conjunction with the presidential election. The incumbent [[David Vitter]] did not seek a third term after having lost a race for governor in 2015. In the 24-candidate field, Fleming carried six parishes and finished fifth with 203,959 votes (11 percent). In sixth place was retired [[United States Air Force]] Colonel [[Rob Maness]], a Senate candidate from 2014 who had been urged by Fleming supporters to drop out and instead to endorse Fleming. [[David Duke]], a former figure in the [[Ku Klux Klan]] who joined the GOP in 1989, ran seventh with 58,581 votes (3 percent). Had the Maness and Duke votes instead gone to Fleming, the Minden physician would have been in the upcoming December 10 runoff election for the seat.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical|title=Election Returns|date=November 8, 2016|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 10, 2016}]</ref>  

 

Now the top vote-getter, Republican state Treasurer John Neely Kennedy, faces Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell, a Democrat from Bossier Parish whose political career began as a state senator in 1976, for the right to succeed Vitter. Prognosticators view Kennedy of St. Tammany Parish in south Louisiana as the heavy favorite in the race.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/politics/elections/article_5bc8107e-a6d2-11e6-8011-9f0284eb23bf.html|title=Foster Campbell seen as facing steep climb in U.S. Senate race against John Kennedy|publisher=''Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Tyler Bridges|date=November 9, 2016|accessdate=November 10, 2016}}</ref>  

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