Cedric Richmond
| Cedric Richmond | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Joseph Cao |
| Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 101st district |
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In office 2000–2011 |
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| Preceded by | Naomi White Farve |
| Succeeded by | Wesley Bishop |
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Cedric Levon Richmond September 13, 1973 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Raquel Greenup |
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Morehouse College (BA) Tulane University (JD) |
| Website | Official website |
Cedric Levon Richmond (born September 13, 1973) is an American politician in the Democratic Party who has been the U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district since 2011. His district includes most of New Orleans. Since January 3, 2017, Richmond has served as chairman of the Black Congressional Caucus.
He was raised in Eastern New Orleans, going to public schools. Richmond's father died when he was seven years old. His mother was a public school teacher and small business owner. Richmond graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School, Morehouse College, Tulane School of Law and the Harvard University executive program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
He was the Louisiana State Representative for District 101 (Orleans Parish) from 2000 to 2011. Having been first elected shortly after his 27th birthday, at the time he took office he became one of the youngest legislators ever to serve in Louisiana. He served as the Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary and a member of the Ways and Means, House Executive, and Legislative Audit Advisory committees.
In an across-the-aisle gesture which was rare in Congress at the time, Richmond in 2014 defended his Republican colleague Vance McAllister, who had become embroiled in an alleged adultery scandal. Richmond associated the controversy with "gotcha moments" in which the "two parties in this country have gone overboard...and taken joy in the pain of their supposed opponents".
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