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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Joseph Adam "Joe" Sevario, III
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator for District 18 (parts of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Livingston, St. James, and St. John the Baptist parishes)
| term_start= 1976
| term_end=1994
| preceded=Ralph Falsetta
| succeeded=[[Louis Lambert]]
| birth_date=September 18, 1944
| birth_place=Place of birth missing
| spouse=Bobbie Jane Sevario
| children =Including:<br>
Shawn Kirk Sevario<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Joseph A., Jr., and Audrey Cannon Sevario
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| occupation=[[Business]]man}}
'''Joseph Adam Sevario, III''', known as '''Joe or Joey Sevario''' (born September 18, 1944),<ref>{{cite web|url= http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Joseph%20Adam&gsln=Sevario%2C%20III&mswpn__ftp=Prairieville%2C%20Ascension%2C%20Louisiana%2C%20USA&mswpn=33991&mswpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C189%7C33991%7C0%7C&MSAV=1&msbdy=1944&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=upc|title=Joseph Adam Sevario, III|publisher=searchancestry.com|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref> is a [[business]]man from Prairieville in Ascension Parish near [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who from 1976 to 1994 represented District 18 as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the state Senate.<ref name=senate>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdftitle=Membership in the Louisiana State Senate since 1880: Ascension Parish|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=December 15, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
Sevario is one of six children, three surviving, born to Joseph Adam "Jo Boy" Sevario, Jr. (1910-1981), and the former Audrey Cannon (1912-2014), who are interred at Carpenters Chapel Cemetery in Galvez near Prairieville,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8169661|title=Joseph A. Sevario, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 15, 2020}}</ref> Two of Sevario's younger brothers, Kermit James Sevario (died in infancy in 1954) and Byron Basil Sevario (1949-2014), and his three older sisters, Nina Jo Sevario (1933-1947), Connie Sevario Lamendola Kirkwood (1935-1919), and Wanda Sevario MarCus (1942-2014), are deceased. Sevario and his wife, Bobbie Jane (born 1943),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?pid=169229375|title=Byron Basil Sevario|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=January 22, 2014|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref> have at least one child, Shawn Kirk Sevario (born April 1967), an [[Independent voter|Independent]] member of the Ascension Parish School Board, who was unopposed for his seat in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecreole.com/?p=29981|title=3 candidates withdraw from November election; many questions unanswered|publisher=''The Creole''|location=Ascension Parish, Louisiana|date=August 29, 2014|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref>
==Elections==
In the 1983 election for a third term to the state Senate, Sevario defeated fellow Democrat M. Paul LeBlanc, 30,563 votes (65.4 percent) to 16,200 (34.6 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983.</ref> In that same contest, [[Edwin Edwards]] returned to the [[Governor|governorship]], when he unseated [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[David C. Treen]].
In 1986, Sevario was an unsuccessful candidate for the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Louisiana's 8th congressional district. Victory went to Republican Clyde Cecil Holloway (1943-2016) of south Rapides Parish, the last person to hold the seat before the district was disbanded, effective January 3, 1993. Sevario finished in fourth place in that race with 34,847 votes (19 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, September 27, 1986</ref> Among Sevario's contributors was Ascension Parish attorney [[Eddie J. Lambert]], now a Republican member of the state Senate]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/elec2/elec-PRAIRIEVILLE-LA.html|title=1985/1986 Contributions|publisher=city-data.com|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref>
In his last state Senate campaign, Sevario defeated an Independent in the [[general election]] held on November 16, 1991. Sevario polled 27,666 votes (52.1 percent) to Jeffery "Jeff" Diez's 25,436 (47.9 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 16, 1991.</ref> In that same election, Edwin Edwards returned again to reclaim the governorship with victory over [[Buddy Roemer]] and [[David Duke]].
Sevario resigned from the state Senate after eighteen years in office<ref name=senate/> and was succeeded by former Senator [[Louis Lambert]], who had also served on the Louisiana Public Service Commission and was the unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial candidate in the 1979 [[general election]] against Republican David Treen.
Joe Sevario Road in Prairieville, Louisiana Highway 932, is named in his honor.
==References==
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
| name=Joseph Adam "Joe" Sevario, III
| office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator for District 18 (parts of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Livingston, St. James, and St. John the Baptist parishes)
| term_start= 1976
| term_end=1994
| preceded=Ralph Falsetta
| succeeded=[[Louis Lambert]]
| birth_date=September 18, 1944
| birth_place=Place of birth missing
| spouse=Bobbie Jane Sevario
| children =Including:<br>
Shawn Kirk Sevario<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Joseph A., Jr., and Audrey Cannon Sevario
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| occupation=[[Business]]man}}
'''Joseph Adam Sevario, III''', known as '''Joe or Joey Sevario''' (born September 18, 1944),<ref>{{cite web|url= http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Joseph%20Adam&gsln=Sevario%2C%20III&mswpn__ftp=Prairieville%2C%20Ascension%2C%20Louisiana%2C%20USA&mswpn=33991&mswpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C189%7C33991%7C0%7C&MSAV=1&msbdy=1944&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=upc|title=Joseph Adam Sevario, III|publisher=searchancestry.com|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref> is a [[business]]man from Prairieville in Ascension Parish near [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who from 1976 to 1994 represented District 18 as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the state Senate.<ref name=senate>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdftitle=Membership in the Louisiana State Senate since 1880: Ascension Parish|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=December 15, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
Sevario is one of six children, three surviving, born to Joseph Adam "Jo Boy" Sevario, Jr. (1910-1981), and the former Audrey Cannon (1912-2014), who are interred at Carpenters Chapel Cemetery in Galvez near Prairieville,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8169661|title=Joseph A. Sevario, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 15, 2020}}</ref> Two of Sevario's younger brothers, Kermit James Sevario (died in infancy in 1954) and Byron Basil Sevario (1949-2014), and his three older sisters, Nina Jo Sevario (1933-1947), Connie Sevario Lamendola Kirkwood (1935-1919), and Wanda Sevario MarCus (1942-2014), are deceased. Sevario and his wife, Bobbie Jane (born 1943),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?pid=169229375|title=Byron Basil Sevario|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=January 22, 2014|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref> have at least one child, Shawn Kirk Sevario (born April 1967), an [[Independent voter|Independent]] member of the Ascension Parish School Board, who was unopposed for his seat in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecreole.com/?p=29981|title=3 candidates withdraw from November election; many questions unanswered|publisher=''The Creole''|location=Ascension Parish, Louisiana|date=August 29, 2014|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref>
==Elections==
In the 1983 election for a third term to the state Senate, Sevario defeated fellow Democrat M. Paul LeBlanc, 30,563 votes (65.4 percent) to 16,200 (34.6 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983.</ref> In that same contest, [[Edwin Edwards]] returned to the [[Governor|governorship]], when he unseated [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[David C. Treen]].
In 1986, Sevario was an unsuccessful candidate for the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Louisiana's 8th congressional district. Victory went to Republican Clyde Cecil Holloway (1943-2016) of south Rapides Parish, the last person to hold the seat before the district was disbanded, effective January 3, 1993. Sevario finished in fourth place in that race with 34,847 votes (19 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, September 27, 1986</ref> Among Sevario's contributors was Ascension Parish attorney [[Eddie J. Lambert]], now a Republican member of the state Senate]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/elec2/elec-PRAIRIEVILLE-LA.html|title=1985/1986 Contributions|publisher=city-data.com|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref>
In his last state Senate campaign, Sevario defeated an Independent in the [[general election]] held on November 16, 1991. Sevario polled 27,666 votes (52.1 percent) to Jeffery "Jeff" Diez's 25,436 (47.9 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 16, 1991.</ref> In that same election, Edwin Edwards returned again to reclaim the governorship with victory over [[Buddy Roemer]] and [[David Duke]].
Sevario resigned from the state Senate after eighteen years in office<ref name=senate/> and was succeeded by former Senator [[Louis Lambert]], who had also served on the Louisiana Public Service Commission and was the unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial candidate in the 1979 [[general election]] against Republican David Treen.
Joe Sevario Road in Prairieville, Louisiana Highway 932, is named in his honor.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sevario, Joe}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]