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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=John Berlinger Breaux
|image=
|office=[[U.S. Senator]] from [[Louisiana]]
|term_start=January 3, 1987
|term_end=January 3, 2005
|predecessor=[[Russell B. Long]]
|successor=[[David Vitter]]
|office2=[[U.S. Representative]] from Louisiana's former 7th congressional district
|term_start2=September 30, 1972
|term_end2=January 3, 1987
|predecessor2=[[Edwin Edwards]]
|successor2=Jimmy Hayes
|birth_date=March 1, 1944
|birth_place=Crowley, Louisiana
|death_date=
|death_place =
|resting_place=
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|spouse=Lois Daigle Breaux
|alma_mater=University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]]<br>[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
}}
'''John Berlinger Breaux''' (born March 1, 1944) is a [[Washington, D.C.]]-[[Lobbying|lobbyist]] who served in both houses of the [[United States Congress]] from 1972 to 2005. A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Breaus represented his native [[Louisiana]]'s former 7th congressional district from 1972 to 1987, when he moved up to the [[U.S. Senate]], a post he held for three terms, ending on January 3, 2005. He is senior partner with [[Trent Lott]], the [[Republican Party|Republican]] U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from [[Mississippi]] in the lobbying group
Breaux-Lott Leadership Group., since part of [[Squire, Patton and Boggs]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/71291-trent-lott-keeps-his-southern-ties-through-lobbying|title=Trent Lott keeps his Southern ties through lobbying|author=Kevin Bogardus|date=December 8, 2009|publisher=''The Hill''|accessdate=October 5, 2017}}</ref>
A graduate of the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]], Breaux succeeded [[Edwin Edwards]] in the 7th district seat, which was later abolished because of the state's sluggish population growth. Edwards at the time had been inaugurated for the first of his four nonconsecutive terms as [[governor]] of Louisiana.
To win his Senate seat, Breaux defeated Republican William Henson Moore, the U.S. Representative from the 6th congressional district, based about the capital city of Baton Rouge. It was a hard-fought campaign, one in which Moore was accused of trying to suppress the [[African-American]] turnout, whose voters overwhelmingly backed the more [[liberal]] candidate. Breaux defeated Moore, 723,586 (52.8 percent) to 646,311 (47.2 percent), a margin of 77,275 ballots. In office, Senator Breaux was considered a centrist Democrat; he founded the [[bipartisan]] Senate Centrist Coalition and was a chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, a group previously associated with President [[Bill Clinton]].
In 1987, as a freshman senator, Breaux voted against confirmation of [[Robert Bork]] to the [[United States Supreme Court]], who was opposed as well by six [[Moderate Republicans]]. In 1991, he voted with the 52-48 majority to confirm [[Clarence Thomas]], an African-American who succeeded another black, [[Thurgood Marshall]], original appointee of President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. When he declined to seek a fourth term in 2004, the seat passed to a Republican, [[David Vitter]], who held it for two terms. In 2017, it was assumed by another Republican, [[John Neeley Kennedy]], the former Louisiana state treasurer.
In 2003, Breaux was influential in the passage of the $400 billion Medicare Prescription Drug Modernization Act.<ref>{{cite news|author=Robert Pear|title=Sweeping Medicare Change Wins Approval in Congress|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/26/politics/26CONG.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias:s&pagewanted=2|accessdate=11 October 2014|publisher=''[[New York Times]]''|date=November 26, 2003|accessdate=October 5, 2017}}</ref>
Breaux considered leaving lobbying in 2007 to run for governor to succeed the retiring [[Kathleen Blanco]], a fellow Democrat. However, he decided against making the race because he was a voting resident of [[Maryland]] at the time, and the Louisiana Constitution requires that a candidate for governor be a citizen of the state but does not define citizenship in that context. Victory in the gubernatorial race went to Republican [[Bobby Jindal]].
==References==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Breaux, John}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Maryland]]
[[Category:Former United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]
[[Category:Lawyers]]
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|name=John Berlinger Breaux
|image=
|office=[[U.S. Senator]] from [[Louisiana]]
|term_start=January 3, 1987
|term_end=January 3, 2005
|predecessor=[[Russell B. Long]]
|successor=[[David Vitter]]
|office2=[[U.S. Representative]] from Louisiana's former 7th congressional district
|term_start2=September 30, 1972
|term_end2=January 3, 1987
|predecessor2=[[Edwin Edwards]]
|successor2=Jimmy Hayes
|birth_date=March 1, 1944
|birth_place=Crowley, Louisiana
|death_date=
|death_place =
|resting_place=
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|spouse=Lois Daigle Breaux
|alma_mater=University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]]<br>[[Louisiana State University]] Law Center
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
}}
'''John Berlinger Breaux''' (born March 1, 1944) is a [[Washington, D.C.]]-[[Lobbying|lobbyist]] who served in both houses of the [[United States Congress]] from 1972 to 2005. A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Breaus represented his native [[Louisiana]]'s former 7th congressional district from 1972 to 1987, when he moved up to the [[U.S. Senate]], a post he held for three terms, ending on January 3, 2005. He is senior partner with [[Trent Lott]], the [[Republican Party|Republican]] U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from [[Mississippi]] in the lobbying group
Breaux-Lott Leadership Group., since part of [[Squire, Patton and Boggs]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/71291-trent-lott-keeps-his-southern-ties-through-lobbying|title=Trent Lott keeps his Southern ties through lobbying|author=Kevin Bogardus|date=December 8, 2009|publisher=''The Hill''|accessdate=October 5, 2017}}</ref>
A graduate of the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]], Breaux succeeded [[Edwin Edwards]] in the 7th district seat, which was later abolished because of the state's sluggish population growth. Edwards at the time had been inaugurated for the first of his four nonconsecutive terms as [[governor]] of Louisiana.
To win his Senate seat, Breaux defeated Republican William Henson Moore, the U.S. Representative from the 6th congressional district, based about the capital city of Baton Rouge. It was a hard-fought campaign, one in which Moore was accused of trying to suppress the [[African-American]] turnout, whose voters overwhelmingly backed the more [[liberal]] candidate. Breaux defeated Moore, 723,586 (52.8 percent) to 646,311 (47.2 percent), a margin of 77,275 ballots. In office, Senator Breaux was considered a centrist Democrat; he founded the [[bipartisan]] Senate Centrist Coalition and was a chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, a group previously associated with President [[Bill Clinton]].
In 1987, as a freshman senator, Breaux voted against confirmation of [[Robert Bork]] to the [[United States Supreme Court]], who was opposed as well by six [[Moderate Republicans]]. In 1991, he voted with the 52-48 majority to confirm [[Clarence Thomas]], an African-American who succeeded another black, [[Thurgood Marshall]], original appointee of President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. When he declined to seek a fourth term in 2004, the seat passed to a Republican, [[David Vitter]], who held it for two terms. In 2017, it was assumed by another Republican, [[John Neeley Kennedy]], the former Louisiana state treasurer.
In 2003, Breaux was influential in the passage of the $400 billion Medicare Prescription Drug Modernization Act.<ref>{{cite news|author=Robert Pear|title=Sweeping Medicare Change Wins Approval in Congress|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/26/politics/26CONG.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias:s&pagewanted=2|accessdate=11 October 2014|publisher=''[[New York Times]]''|date=November 26, 2003|accessdate=October 5, 2017}}</ref>
Breaux considered leaving lobbying in 2007 to run for governor to succeed the retiring [[Kathleen Blanco]], a fellow Democrat. However, he decided against making the race because he was a voting resident of [[Maryland]] at the time, and the Louisiana Constitution requires that a candidate for governor be a citizen of the state but does not define citizenship in that context. Victory in the gubernatorial race went to Republican [[Bobby Jindal]].
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Breaux, John}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Maryland]]
[[Category:Former United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]
[[Category:Lawyers]]
.