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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
|name= Quentin D. Dastugue
|name=Quentin D. Dastugue
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br>for District 82 (Jefferson and Orleans parishes)
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br>for District 82 (Jefferson and Orleans parishes)
|term_start=1980
|term_start=1980
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]] (1984)
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]] (1984)
|occupation=[[Business]]man
|occupation=[[Business]]man
|alma_mater=Eastern High School (Middletown, [[Kentucky]])
|alma_mater=Eastern High School (Middletown, [[Kentucky]])<br>
[[Georgia Institute of Technology]]
[[Georgia Institute of Technology]]
|residence=Covington, St. Tammany Parish}}
|residence=Covington, St. Tammany Parish}}
'''Quentin D. Dastugue''' (born December 31, 1955) is a founding partner and the chief executive officer of the [[New Orleans]]-based real estate firm Property One, Inc., and a former four-term state representative for District 82 in Orleans and Jefferson parishes.
'''Quentin D. Dastugue''' (born December 31, 1955) is a founding partner and the chief executive officer of the [[New Orleans]]-based real estate firm, Property One, Inc., and a former four-term state representative for District 82 in Orleans and Jefferson parishes.
Dastugue (pronounced DAS TOOG) was elected as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to the state House in 1979 and 1983 . In 1984, as he began his second term in the House, he switched his affiliation to the [[Republican Party]] to support the reelection of [[U.S. President]] [[Ronald W. Reagan]] and [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]].
Dastugue (pronounced DAS TOOG) was elected as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to the state House in 1979 and 1983 . In 1984, as he began his second term in the House, he switched his affiliation to the [[Republican Party]] to support the reelection of [[U.S. President]] [[Ronald W. Reagan]] and [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]].
==Political life==
==Political life==
Dastugue was first elected to the legislature in 1979 when he defeated a two-term incumbent. He won with more than 60 percent of the vote. At the age of twenty-three, he was the third youngest person ever elected to the Louisiana legislature.
Dastugue was first elected to the legislature in 1979 when he defeated a two-term incumbent, Democrat Harold Toca. He won with more than 60 percent of the vote. At the age of twenty-three, he was the third youngest person ever elected to the Louisiana legislature.
In December 1989, Dastugue in his third state House term announced that he would run as a Republican for the [[U.S. Senate]] in a bid to unseat popular three-term Democratic incumbent [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], of [[Shreveport]].<ref>"Dastugue enters Senate race," ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' December 20, 1989, p. 8.</ref> However, when the state GOP held a convention on January 13, 1990, the delegates endorsed then state Senator [[Ben Bagert]] of New Orleans as the official party choice. Dastugue then abandoned plans to make the race. So did another candidate, Walter Fox McKeithen (1946-2005), at the time the Louisiana Secretary of State and a son of former [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]]. Like Dastugue and Bagert, McKeithen was a former Democrat. Bagert later withdrew from the contest, and Johnston defeated the remaining Republican candidate, state Representative [[David Duke]], then of Jefferson Parish and a former figure in the Knights of the [[Ku Klux Klan]].
In December 1989, Dastugue in his third state House term announced that he would run as a Republican for the [[U.S. Senate]] in a bid to unseat popular three-term Democratic incumbent [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], of [[Shreveport]].<ref>"Dastugue enters Senate race," ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' December 20, 1989, p. 8.</ref> However, when the state GOP held a convention on January 13, 1990, the delegates endorsed then state Senator [[Ben Bagert]] of New Orleans as the official party choice. Dastugue then abandoned plans to make the race. So did another candidate, Walter Fox McKeithen (1946-2005), at the time the Louisiana Secretary of State and a son of former [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]]. Like Dastugue and Bagert, McKeithen was a former Democrat. Bagert later withdrew from the contest, and Johnston defeated the remaining Republican candidate, state Representative [[David Duke]], then of Jefferson Parish and a former figure in the Knights of the [[Ku Klux Klan]].