Cleo Fields
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| Member of the Louisiana Senate from the 14th district |
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In office January 1998 – January 2008 |
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| Preceded by | John Guidry |
| Succeeded by | Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb |
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In office January 1988 – January 3, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Turnley |
| Succeeded by | John Guidry |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 4th district |
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In office January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Jim McCrery |
| Succeeded by | Jim McCrery |
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November 22, 1962 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Southern University (BA, JD) |
Cleo C. Fields (born November 22, 1962) is an American attorney, politician and member of the Democratic Party from the U.S. state of Louisiana. He represented Louisiana's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1997 and ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Louisiana in 1995.
Fields was born in Port Allen, Louisiana and received his undergraduate and law degrees from Southern University in Baton Rouge. In 1980, he founded the fundraising group Young Adults for Positive Action and in 1987 he was elected to the Louisiana Senate. He ran for Congress in 1990 and was defeated but was re-elected to the State Senate in 1991.
Fields was elected to represent Louisiana's 4th congressional district in the House of Representatives in 1992 and re-elected in 1994. He ran for Governor in 1995, coming second in the jungle primary and then losing in a landslide to Mike Foster. He did not run for re-election to the House in 1996 and his seat was taken by Republican John Cooksey.
Fields was elected back to the State Senate in 1997 and re-elected in 2003, then running unsuccessfully for the Louisiana Public Service Commission in 2004. On October 1, 2007, the Louisiana State Supreme Court ruled that Fields could not stand for re-election to his State Senate seat because of term limits. The state legislature had passed a law in 2006 that had defined the date of the swearing in of Fields and of the intended beneficiary, Shreveport Republican Wayne Waddell, in a way that would have allowed Fields and Waddell to stand for re-election in November 2007 and serve one more term, but the court ruled the law unconstitutional.
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