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Maness is a candidate in the special election scheduled for October 14, 2017, to fill the unexpired term of District 77 state Representative John Schroder,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/politics/elections/article_0266135c-a062-11e7-a4ed-fb9bcbbb40a1.html#tncms-source=infinity-scroll-summary-siderail-latest|title=Four candidates vying for Louisiana House seat left open by John Schroder's departure|publisher=''The Advocate''|date=September 24, 2017|author=Sara Pagones|accessdate=September 28, 2017}}</ref>  who is instead running for state treasurer in the same special election. The treasurer's position opened when John Neely Kennedy resigned to become the state's junior [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]]. A move to draft Maness for the treasurer's race developed, but he instead ran for the legislature. Had he sought the treasurer's position, Maness would have faced fellow Republicans John Schroder and state Senator Neil Riser of Columbia in Caldwell Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/ColRobManessLATreasurer/|title=Draft Col. Rob Maness for Louisiana State Treasurer|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=May 27, 2017}}</ref>

Maness is a candidate in the special election scheduled for October 14, 2017, to fill the unexpired term of District 77 state Representative John Schroder,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/politics/elections/article_0266135c-a062-11e7-a4ed-fb9bcbbb40a1.html#tncms-source=infinity-scroll-summary-siderail-latest|title=Four candidates vying for Louisiana House seat left open by John Schroder's departure|publisher=''The Advocate''|date=September 24, 2017|author=Sara Pagones|accessdate=September 28, 2017}}</ref>  who is instead running for state treasurer in the same special election. The treasurer's position opened when John Neely Kennedy resigned to become the state's junior [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]]. A move to draft Maness for the treasurer's race developed, but he instead ran for the legislature. Had he sought the treasurer's position, Maness would have faced fellow Republicans John Schroder and state Senator Neil Riser of Columbia in Caldwell Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/ColRobManessLATreasurer/|title=Draft Col. Rob Maness for Louisiana State Treasurer|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=May 27, 2017}}</ref>

==Biography==

==Biography==

Maness received his [[bachelor's degree]] from the University of Tampa in [[Tampa]], [[Florida]], and his master's degree from [[Harvard University]]'s [[Kennedy School of Government]]. He attended the Air Command and Staff College and the College of Naval Warfare.<ref name=ballot/> He and his wife, Candace, reside in Madisonville in St. Tammany Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. The couple has five children.

Maness received his [[bachelor's degree]] from the University of Tampa in [[Tampa]], [[Florida]], and his master's degree from [[Harvard University]]'s [[Kennedy School of Government]]. He attended the Air Command and Staff College and the College of Naval Warfare.<ref name=ballot/> He and his wife, Candace, reside in Madisonville in St. Tammany Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. The couple has five children.

In December 2015, Maness announced his candidacy to succeed Vitter in the Senate. With 90,812 votes (5 percent), Maness finished sixth in the primary election on November 8, 2016, held in conjunction with the U.S. presidential election in which [[Donald Trump]] handily carried the state over [[Hillary Clinton]]. The two leading Senate candidates, state Treasurer John Neely Kennedy, a Democrat-turned-Republican, and veteran Democratic former state senator and current Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell, met in a December 10 runoff election for the right to succeed Vitter. Kennedy won a large victory over Campbell. Eliminated in the primary were Republican U.S. Representatives Charles Boustany of Lafayette and [[John Fleming]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], two physicians<ref name=returns>{{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>who gave up presumably safe House seats for the Senate race. [[David Duke]], a former figure in the [[Ku Klux Klan]], who joined the GOP in 1989 finished seventh with 58,581 votes (3 percent).<ref name=returns/>

In December 2015, Maness announced his candidacy to succeed Vitter in the Senate. With 90,812 votes (5 percent), Maness finished sixth in the primary election on November 8, 2016, held in conjunction with the U.S. presidential election in which [[Donald Trump]] handily carried the state over [[Hillary Clinton]]. The two leading Senate candidates, state Treasurer John Neely Kennedy, a Democrat-turned-Republican, and veteran Democratic former state senator and current Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell, met in a December 10 runoff election for the right to succeed Vitter. Kennedy won a large victory over Campbell. Eliminated in the primary were Republican U.S. Representatives Charles Boustany of [[Lafayette]] and [[John Fleming]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], two physicians<ref name=returns>{{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>who gave up presumably safe House seats for the Senate race. [[David Duke]], a former figure in the [[Ku Klux Klan]], who joined the GOP in 1989 finished seventh with 58,581 votes (3 percent).<ref name=returns/>

Maness received some 112,000 votes fewer than he had in the 2014 Senate election and had been urged to drop out of the race to support the equally conservative Fleming, who led in six parishes but finished fifth in the voting. Maness and Fleming both pursued positions with the Trump administration in [[Washington, D.C.]],<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> but thus far only Fleming has been successful in that regard.

Maness received some 112,000 votes fewer than he had in the 2014 Senate election and had been urged to drop out of the race to support the equally conservative Fleming, who led in six parishes but finished fifth in the voting. Maness and Fleming both pursued positions with the Trump administration in [[Washington, D.C.]],<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> but thus far only Fleming has been successful in that regard.

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