Billy Nungesser
| Billy Nungesser | |
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| 54th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana | |
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Assumed office January 11, 2016 |
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| Governor | John Bel Edwards |
| Preceded by | Jay Dardenne |
| President of Plaquemines Parish | |
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In office January 2, 2007 – January 5, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Benny Rousselle |
| Succeeded by | Amos Cormier |
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January 10, 1959 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Cher Taffarro |
William Harold "Billy" Nungesser (born January 10, 1959), is an American politician serving as the 54th and current Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, since January 11, 2016.
A Republican, Nungesser is also the former president of the Plaquemines Parish Commission, having been re-elected to a second four-year term in the 2010 general election in which he topped two opponents with more than 71 percent of the vote. His second term as parish president began on January 1, 2011, and ended four years later.
Nungesser is the son of the late William Aicklen "Billy" Nungesser and the former Ruth Amelia Marks (1932–2012). From 1980 to 1984, the senior Nungesser was the chief of staff during David C. Treen's term as governor of Louisiana. He was later the state chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party, in which capacity he unexpectedly supported Patrick J. Buchanan for the party's 1992 presidential nomination.
Ruth Nungesser was also active in Republican politics as a charter member of Republican Women of Louisiana and a delegate to state and national GOP conventions. Billy Nungesser has a younger brother, Eric H. Nungesser and wife Carole, and two sisters, Nancy A. Nungesser and Heidi N. Landry and husband Marlon.
In 1983, Governor Treen appointed the younger Nungesser to the Lake Pontchartrain and Maurepaus Study Commission. The senior Nungesser was named in 1985 to the Orleans Levee Board.
While working in his family's offshore catering business, Nungesser found an alternative use for metal ship containers. In 1991, he established General Marine Leasing Company, a business which provides portable living quarters for offshore workers. The company grew to employ two hundred people and reaching $20 million in sales. In 2004, he was the chairman for the Plaquemines Parish United Way. In 2004 and 2005, Nungesser worked with local business leaders to form the Plaquemines Association of Business and Industry or PABI, separate from the statewide Louisiana Association of Business and Industry. He served on the PABI board during its early years.
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