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|term_end2=January 8, 2024
|term_end2=January 8, 2024
|preceded2=[[Buddy Caldwell|James David "Buddy" Caldwell, Sr.]]
|preceded2=[[Buddy Caldwell|James David "Buddy" Caldwell, Sr.]]
|succeeded2=Liz Baker Murrill
|succeeded2=[[Liz Murrill]]
|office3=[[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for Louisiana's<br> 3rd congressional district
|office3=[[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for Louisiana's<br> 3rd congressional district
|term_start3=January 3, 2011
|term_start3=January 3, 2011
===Successor elected as Attorney General===
===Successor elected as Attorney General===
When Landry announced for governor in 2023, a plethora of candidates ran to succeed him as attorney general, including Landry's Republican choice, Liz Baker Murrill; two other Republicans, Marty Maley and state Representative [[John Stefanski]], a Moderate Republican, and the two Democrat choices, Lindsey Cheek and Perry Walker Terrebonne. Murrill led the primary with 463,108 votes (45 percent) and will face Cheek, who drew 239,653 votes (23 percent), in the November 18 general election.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of
When Landry announced for governor in 2023, a plethora of candidates ran to succeed him as attorney general, including Landry's Republican choice, [[Liz Murrill]]; two other Republicans, Marty Maley and state Representative [[John Stefanski]], a Moderate Republican, and the two Democrat choices, Lindsey Cheek and Perry Walker Terrebonne. Murrill led the primary with 463,108 votes (45 percent) and will face Cheek, who drew 239,653 votes (23 percent), in the November 18 general election.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of
State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref> In that runoff contest Murrill was an easy winner over Lindsey Cheek, 444,081 (66 percent) to 225,011 (34 percent). She will become attorney general when Landry is inaugurated as governor on January 8, 2024.
State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref> In that runoff contest Murrill was an easy winner over Lindsey Cheek, 444,081 (66 percent) to 225,011 (34 percent). She will become attorney general when Landry is inaugurated as governor on January 8, 2024.