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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 in East Baton Rouge Parish.
'''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.
==Background==
==Family and career==
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 (mother of Dan Claitor)|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 25, 2014|accessdate=October 15, 2019}}</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 (mother of Dan Claitor)|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 25, 2014|accessdate=October 15, 2019}}</ref>