John Fleming
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| U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 4th Congressional District From: January 3, 2009 - Present | |||
| Predecessor | Jim McCrery | ||
| Successor | Incumbent (no successor) | ||
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| Party | Republican | ||
| Spouse(s) | Cindy Fleming | ||
| Religion | Baptist | ||
John Calvin Fleming, Jr. (born July 5, 1951 in Meridian, Mississippi) currently serves as the Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 4th congressional district, representing the cities of Minden (Fleming's city of residence), Shreveport, DeRidder, Bossier City, and Natchitoches. He was elected in 2008 by just 356 votes, the closest House race that year, when he defeated the Caddo Parish District Attorney Paul Carmouche, a Democrat. Carmouche earlier had defeated fellow Democrat John Milkovich for the party nomination. Milkovich resurfaced in 2015 to claim the District 38 seat in the Louisiana State Senate.
Fleming, a physician and businessman, serves on the Armed Services Committee and Natural Resources Committee.
Fleming's predecessors in the Fourth District seat were Republican Jim McCrery and Democrats Buddy Roemer, Claude "Buddy" Leach, and Joe Waggonner.
Fleming leaves the House in January 2017. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in the November 8, 2016, primary election held in conjunction with the presidential election. The incumbent David Vitter did not seek a third term after having lost a race for governor in 2015. Fleming carried six parishes and finished fifth in the voting with 203,959 votes (11 percent). In sixth place was retired United States Air Force Colonel Rob Maness, a Senate candidate from 2014 who had been urged by Fleming supporters to drop out of the 2016 race and instead to endorse Fleming. David Duke, a former figure in the Ku Klux Klan who joined the GOP in 1989, ran seventh with 58,581 votes (3 percent).[1] In the December 10 runoff election, Republican state Treasurer John Neely Kennedy faces Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell, a Democrat from Bossier Parish whose political career began as a state senator in 1976. Prognosticators view Kennedy of St. Tammany Parish in south Louisiana as the heavy favorite in that race.[2]
External links
- ↑ {{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical%7Ctitle=Election Returns|date=November 8, 2016|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 10, 2016}]
- ↑ Tyler Bridges (November 9, 2016). Foster Campbell seen as facing steep climb in U.S. Senate race against John Kennedy. Baton Rouge Advocate. Retrieved on November 10, 2016.