Chris John
| Christopher Charles John | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 7th district |
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In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Jimmy Hayes |
| Succeeded by | Charles Boustany |
| Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 42nd district |
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In office 1988–1996 |
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| Preceded by | Donald Thibodeaux |
| Succeeded by | Gil Pinac |
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January 5, 1960 Crowley, Louisiana in Acadia Parish |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Payton Smith John |
| Alma mater | Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (BA) |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Christopher Charles "Chris" John (born January 5, 1960) is American politician who was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 to 2005, representing Louisiana's 7th congressional district.
Chris John was born in Crowley, Louisiana, one of six children, and reared as a Roman Catholic. He is of Lebanese, French, and German extraction. He attended Notre Dame Catholic High School in Crowley and Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He was a house page while his father, John N. John, Jr., was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He later was elected to and served on the Crowley City Council in the early 1980s.
Chris John first became a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives before he entered the U.S. House. In what was considered a major upset at the time, John defeated the state House incumbent, the former director of the Louisiana State Police, Donald Thibodeaux, in October 1987, by 54-46 percent.
Thibodeaux had won a full term in 1983 after having won a special election the year before to fill the unexpired term of John's father, who died in an automobile accident. Chris John served in the state house until 1996, when he finished third with 15 percent of the statewide vote in the 1995 race for lieutenant governor behind the eventual winner (and, who, eight years later, in 2003, became Louisiana's first female chief executive) Kathleen Babineaux Blanco. John narrowly lost the general election berth against Blanco to a fellow state representative, Republican Suzanne Mayfield Krieger of Slidell in St. Tammany Parish.
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