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Nancy McLellan Claitor​

Nancy McLellan Claitor​

|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]​

|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]​

|religion= [[Roman Catholic]​

|religion= [[Roman Catholic]​]

|occupation=[[Attorney]]​

|occupation=[[Attorney]]​

|alma_mater=Robert E. Lee High School​

|alma_mater=Robert E. Lee High School​

Claitor was an unsuccessful candidate for the open seat for Louisiana's 6th congressional district in the [[nonpartisan blanket primary]] held on November 4, 2014, in conjunction with the regular [[general election]]s in the other forty-nine states. The congressional seat was vacated by Bill Cassidy, Claitor's predecessor in the state Senate, who instead ran successfully to unseat [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[U.S. Senator]] [[Mary Landrieu]]. Claitor's intra-party opponents were [[Garret Graves]], then state Representative [[Lenar Whitney]] and Paul Deitzel, II, of Baton Rouge, namesake grandson of the [[Louisiana State University]] [[football]]coach and athletic director Paul Dietzel, I.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/news/opinion/8067542-123/washington-watch-handicapping-the-6th|title=Jordan Blum, Washington Watch: Handicapping the 6th District race, January 24, 2014|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=February 5, 2014}}</ref> A Democrat, then 87-year-old [[Edwin Edwards]], former four-time governor and four-time representative of Louisiana's  since defunct 7th congressional district]].

Claitor was an unsuccessful candidate for the open seat for Louisiana's 6th congressional district in the [[nonpartisan blanket primary]] held on November 4, 2014, in conjunction with the regular [[general election]]s in the other forty-nine states. The congressional seat was vacated by Bill Cassidy, Claitor's predecessor in the state Senate, who instead ran successfully to unseat [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[U.S. Senator]] [[Mary Landrieu]]. Claitor's intra-party opponents were [[Garret Graves]], then state Representative [[Lenar Whitney]] and Paul Deitzel, II, of Baton Rouge, namesake grandson of the [[Louisiana State University]] [[football]]coach and athletic director Paul Dietzel, I.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/news/opinion/8067542-123/washington-watch-handicapping-the-6th|title=Jordan Blum, Washington Watch: Handicapping the 6th District race, January 24, 2014|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=February 5, 2014}}</ref> A Democrat, then 87-year-old [[Edwin Edwards]], former four-time governor and four-time representative of Louisiana's  since defunct 7th congressional district]].

<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-19/edwin-edwards-is-running-for-congress.html |title=Ex-Con Ex-Governor Running for Congress |publisher=Bloomberg |date=February 19, 2014 |accessdate=February 20, 2014}}</ref> led the primary field with 77,862 votes (30.1 percent), but later lost the general election to the runner-up in the primary, Garret Graves, who received in the primary 70,706 (27.4 percent) in the primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11042014/11042014_Congressional.html|title=Election results 11/4/2014|publisher=[[Louisiana Secretary of State]]|accessdate=November 5, 2014}}</ref>​

<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-19/edwin-edwards-is-running-for-congress.html |title=Ex-Con Ex-Governor Running for Congress |publisher=Bloomberg |date=February 19, 2014 |accessdate=February 20, 2014}}</ref> led the primary field with 77,862 votes (30.1 percent), but later lost the general election to the runner-up in the primary, Garret Graves, who received in the primary 70,706 (27.4 percent) in the primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11042014/11042014_Congressional.html|title=Election results 11/4/2014|publisher=[[Louisiana Secretary of State]]|accessdate=November 5, 2014}}</ref>​

 

==Background==​

==Background==

 

Claitor is the third of four sons of Robert Gregory Claitor, Sr., and the former Nancy McLellan (1934-2014), the daughter of the late Archibald Kenneth McLellan and the former Jewel Dean. Mrs. Claitor died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on October 22, 2014, two weeks before the primary election for Congress. Reared in Boyce in northern Rapides Parish in the home of her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert McNeely Dean, Mrs. Claitor studied and taught [[ballet]], earned her credentials as a registered [[nurse]] in 1956 from the former Touro Infirmary in [[New Orleans]], and received a degree in psychiatric nursing from Loyola University New Orleans. At the time of her death, having retired from nursing, she was the harbor master and co-owner of Marina del Ray in Madisonville in St. Tammany Parish, and a co-owner and former manager of Claitor's Law Books and Publishing Company in Baton Rouge. An enthusiast of the [[France|French]] French language, she traveled extensively in [[France]] and sat on the board of Friends of French Studies at LSU. She was a [[United Methodist]].<ref name=mrsclaitorobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=nancy-mclellan-claitor&pid=172917892&fhid=17442|title=Nancy McLellan Claitor|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate''|date=October 25, 2014|accessdate=October 25, 2014}}</ref>​

Claitor is the third of four sons of Robert Gregory Claitor, Sr., and the former Nancy McLellan (1934-2014), the daughter of the late Archibald Kenneth McLellan and the former Jewel Dean. Mrs. Claitor died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on October 22, 2014, two weeks before the primary election for Congress. Reared in Boyce in northern Rapides Parish in the home of her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert McNeely Dean, Mrs. Claitor studied and taught [[ballet]], earned her credentials as a registered [[nurse]] in 1956 from the former Touro Infirmary in [[New Orleans]], and received a degree in psychiatric nursing from Loyola University New Orleans. At the time of her death, having retired from nursing, she was the harbor master and co-owner of Marina del Ray in Madisonville in St. Tammany Parish, and a co-owner and former manager of Claitor's Law Books and Publishing Company in Baton Rouge. An enthusiast of the [[France|French]] French language, she traveled extensively in [[France]] and sat on the board of Friends of French Studies at LSU. She was a [[United Methodist]].<ref name=mrsclaitorobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=nancy-mclellan-claitor&pid=172917892&fhid=17442|title=Nancy McLellan Claitor|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate''|date=October 25, 2014|accessdate=October 25, 2014}}</ref>​

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