Bill Cassidy
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United States Senator from Louisiana |
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Assumed office January 3, 2015 Serving with John Neely Kennedy |
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| Preceded by | Mary Landrieu |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 6th district |
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In office January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Don Cazayoux |
| Succeeded by | Garret Graves |
| Member of the Louisiana Senate from the 16th district |
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In office December 20, 2006 – January 3, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Jay Dardenne |
| Succeeded by | Dan Claitor |
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William Morgan Cassidy September 28, 1957 Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Laura Layden |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (BS, MD) |
William Morgan "Bill" Cassidy (born September 28, 1957) is an American physician and politician currently serving as the senior United States Senator from the state of Louisiana. He is a member of the Republican Party and served as the U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 6th Congressional District from 2009 to 2015. Cassidy became Louisiana's senior senator when David Vitter retired in 2017. He is the Senate's most junior senior senator.
William Morgan Cassidy was born in Highland Park, Illinois, one of four sons born to Elizabeth and James F. Cassidy, and is of Irish and Welsh descent. He received a B.S. Degree in 1979 from Louisiana State University and an M.D. from LSU School of Medicine in 1983. Cassidy specialized in the treatment of diseases of the liver at the Earl K. Long Medical Center (LSUMC). His wife, Laura (née Layden), is also a physician. The couple has three children. They are members of The Chapel on the Campus, a nondenominational Christian Church that meets on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge.
In 1998, Cassidy helped found the Greater Baton Rouge Community Clinic to provide uninsured residents of the greater Baton Rouge area with access to free health care. The Clinic provides low-income families with free dental, medical, mental health and vision care through a "virtual" approach that partners needy patients with doctors who provide care free of charge.
Cassidy has also been involved in setting up the nonprofit Health Centers in Schools, which vaccinates children in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System against Hepatitis B and flu.
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