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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = John A. Alario, Jr.
|office=President of the Louisiana State Senate
|term_start=January 9, 2012
|term_end =
|preceded=Joel Chaisson
|succeeded=
|office2=Louisiana State Senator for District 8 (Jefferson Parish)
|term_start2=January 2008
|term_end2=January 2020 (pending)
|preceded2=J. Christopher Ullo
|succeeded2=
|office3=Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives
|term_start3= January 1992
|term_end3=January 1996
|preceded3=Jimmy Dimos
|succeeded3=Huntington Blair "Hunt" Downer
|term_start4=January 1984
|term_end4=January 1988
|preceded4=John Joseph Hainkel, Jr.
|succeeded4=Jimmy Dimos
|office5=Louisiana State Representative for District 83 (Jefferson Parish)
|term_start5=May 1972
|term_end5=January 2008
|preceded5=
|succeeded5=Robert Billiot
|birth_date=September 15, 1943
|birth_place=
|death_date=
|death_place=
|resting_place=
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]] (2011)
|spouse=Alba Williamson Alario
|children=John W., Jan M., Christopher Brian, and Kevin George Alario<br>
Parents:<br>
John, Sr., and Elsie Lombas Alario
|alma-mater=West Jefferson High School<br>
Southeastern Louisiana University
|occupation=[[Business]]man
|residence=Westwego, Jefferson Parish
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
}}
'''John A. Alario Jr.''' (born September 15, 1943), is the currently-serving President of the [[Louisiana]] State Senate; his term of office ends in January 2020, and he is term-limited in his District 8 seat in the Senate representing Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. A legislator since 1972, when his mentor [[Edwin Edwards]] became the [[governor]], Alario was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 2008. He was twice the Speaker of the House in the third and fourth non-consecutive terms of the Edwards administration. In 2007, term-limited in the House, was instead elected to the state Senate. Alario is only the second person in Louisiana and the fourth in [[United States]] history to have been elected as both Speaker of his state House and President of his state Senate.<ref>Mallory Horne of [[Florida]], John Hainkel, Jr., of Louisiana, and [[Libby Mitchell]] of [[Maine]] were the three persons who previously held both of thesestate legislative offices.</ref><{{cite web|url=http://ncsl.typepad.com/the_thicket/2011/10/legislators-who-have-served-as-speaker-and-top-senate-leader.html|title=Legislators who have served as Speaker and top Senate leader|publisher=Ncsi.typepad.com|accessdate=June 23, 2018}]</ref>
A long-term [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Alario switched parties solely to gain the endorsement of then Governor [[Bobby Jindal]], a [[Republican Party|Republican]]. He won the support of all but one of the senators, then freshman [[Barrow Peacock]] of [[Shreveport]]. In Louisiana, the governor until 2016 had traditionally tapped his own choice for both House Speaker and Senate President. Alario has been supportive of the current Democratic governor, [[John Bel Edwards]], who in 2018 obtained a [[sales tax]] renewal to close a potential budget deficit despite nominally Republican majorities in both legislative chambers. The Republican House Speaker, [[Taylor Barras]] of New Iberia, has opposed much of the John Bel Edwards tax package.
An [[accountant], Alario resides in Westwego in Jefferson Parish. He is a member of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Knights of Columbus]] men's organization, the Louisiana Epilepsy Association, and the Louisiana International Deep Water Gulf Transfer Terminal Authority. He was a delegate at the 1972 [[Democratic National Convention]], which met in Miami Beach, [[Florida]], to nominate [[U.S. Senator]] [[George McGovern]] of [[South Dakota]], who was then roundly defeated by the Republican [[U.S. President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]]. In 1996 and 2000, Alario attended the Democratic conventions which nominated the [[Bill Clinton]]-[[Al Gore]] and Gore-[[Joseph Lieberman]] tickets. He is a recipient of the Hale Boggs Memorial Award, named for the late Democrat [[U.S. Representative]] for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district.<ref>"Louisiana: Alario, John, ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007-2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: [[New Providence, New Jersey|New Providence]], [[New Jersey]], 2007), p. 648.</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Former Democrats]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:RINOs]]
[[Category:Catholics]]
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]
|name = John A. Alario, Jr.
|office=President of the Louisiana State Senate
|term_start=January 9, 2012
|term_end =
|preceded=Joel Chaisson
|succeeded=
|office2=Louisiana State Senator for District 8 (Jefferson Parish)
|term_start2=January 2008
|term_end2=January 2020 (pending)
|preceded2=J. Christopher Ullo
|succeeded2=
|office3=Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives
|term_start3= January 1992
|term_end3=January 1996
|preceded3=Jimmy Dimos
|succeeded3=Huntington Blair "Hunt" Downer
|term_start4=January 1984
|term_end4=January 1988
|preceded4=John Joseph Hainkel, Jr.
|succeeded4=Jimmy Dimos
|office5=Louisiana State Representative for District 83 (Jefferson Parish)
|term_start5=May 1972
|term_end5=January 2008
|preceded5=
|succeeded5=Robert Billiot
|birth_date=September 15, 1943
|birth_place=
|death_date=
|death_place=
|resting_place=
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]] (2011)
|spouse=Alba Williamson Alario
|children=John W., Jan M., Christopher Brian, and Kevin George Alario<br>
Parents:<br>
John, Sr., and Elsie Lombas Alario
|alma-mater=West Jefferson High School<br>
Southeastern Louisiana University
|occupation=[[Business]]man
|residence=Westwego, Jefferson Parish
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
}}
'''John A. Alario Jr.''' (born September 15, 1943), is the currently-serving President of the [[Louisiana]] State Senate; his term of office ends in January 2020, and he is term-limited in his District 8 seat in the Senate representing Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. A legislator since 1972, when his mentor [[Edwin Edwards]] became the [[governor]], Alario was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 2008. He was twice the Speaker of the House in the third and fourth non-consecutive terms of the Edwards administration. In 2007, term-limited in the House, was instead elected to the state Senate. Alario is only the second person in Louisiana and the fourth in [[United States]] history to have been elected as both Speaker of his state House and President of his state Senate.<ref>Mallory Horne of [[Florida]], John Hainkel, Jr., of Louisiana, and [[Libby Mitchell]] of [[Maine]] were the three persons who previously held both of thesestate legislative offices.</ref><{{cite web|url=http://ncsl.typepad.com/the_thicket/2011/10/legislators-who-have-served-as-speaker-and-top-senate-leader.html|title=Legislators who have served as Speaker and top Senate leader|publisher=Ncsi.typepad.com|accessdate=June 23, 2018}]</ref>
A long-term [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Alario switched parties solely to gain the endorsement of then Governor [[Bobby Jindal]], a [[Republican Party|Republican]]. He won the support of all but one of the senators, then freshman [[Barrow Peacock]] of [[Shreveport]]. In Louisiana, the governor until 2016 had traditionally tapped his own choice for both House Speaker and Senate President. Alario has been supportive of the current Democratic governor, [[John Bel Edwards]], who in 2018 obtained a [[sales tax]] renewal to close a potential budget deficit despite nominally Republican majorities in both legislative chambers. The Republican House Speaker, [[Taylor Barras]] of New Iberia, has opposed much of the John Bel Edwards tax package.
An [[accountant], Alario resides in Westwego in Jefferson Parish. He is a member of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Knights of Columbus]] men's organization, the Louisiana Epilepsy Association, and the Louisiana International Deep Water Gulf Transfer Terminal Authority. He was a delegate at the 1972 [[Democratic National Convention]], which met in Miami Beach, [[Florida]], to nominate [[U.S. Senator]] [[George McGovern]] of [[South Dakota]], who was then roundly defeated by the Republican [[U.S. President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]]. In 1996 and 2000, Alario attended the Democratic conventions which nominated the [[Bill Clinton]]-[[Al Gore]] and Gore-[[Joseph Lieberman]] tickets. He is a recipient of the Hale Boggs Memorial Award, named for the late Democrat [[U.S. Representative]] for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district.<ref>"Louisiana: Alario, John, ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007-2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: [[New Providence, New Jersey|New Providence]], [[New Jersey]], 2007), p. 648.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[DEFAULTSORT:Alario, John}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Former Democrats]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:RINOs]]
[[Category:Catholics]]
[[Category:Catholic Politicians]]