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'''Daniel Albert Claitor''', known as '''Dan Claitor'''  (born August 3, 1961),  is an [[attorney]] from his native [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]] who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] departing state senator for District 16.​

'''Daniel Albert Claitor''', known as '''Dan Claitor'''  (born August 3, 1961),  is an [[attorney]] from his native [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]] who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] departing state senator for District 16 in East Baton Rouge Parish.​

 

On April 4, 2009, Claitor defeated fellow Republican Lee Domingue, a Baton Rouge businessman backed by then [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]], in a [[special election]] for the District 16  seat vacated by Republican [[U.S. Representative]] [[Bill Cassidy]].  Claitor received 11,713 votes (66 percent) to Domingue's 6,114 (34 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, April 4, 2009.</ref> Prior to Cassidy's short tenure, the Senate seat was held by former Louisiana Secretary of State and lieutenant governor,  John Leigh "Jay" Dardenne, Jr., a [[Moderate Republican]].​

On April 4, 2009, Claitor defeated fellow Republican Lee Domingue, a Baton Rouge businessman backed by then [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]], in a [[special election]] for the District 16  seat vacated by Republican [[U.S. Representative]] [[Bill Cassidy]].  Claitor received 11,713 votes (66 percent) to Domingue's 6,114 (34 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, April 4, 2009.</ref> Prior to Cassidy's short tenure, the Senate seat was held by former Louisiana Secretary of State and lieutenant governor,  John Leigh "Jay" Dardenne, Jr., a [[Moderate Republican]].

 

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>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 4, 2014.</ref>​

==Background==

==Background==