Jay Dardenne
| Jay Dardenne | |
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| Louisiana Commissioner of Administration | |
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Assumed office January 11, 2016 |
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| Governor | John Bel Edwards |
| Preceded by | Stafford Palmieri |
| 53rd Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana | |
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In office November 22, 2010 – January 11, 2016 |
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| Governor | Bobby Jindal |
| Preceded by | Scott Angelle |
| Succeeded by | Billy Nungesser |
| Secretary of State of Louisiana | |
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In office November 10, 2006 – November 22, 2010 |
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| Governor |
Kathleen Blanco Bobby Jindal |
| Preceded by | Al Ater |
| Succeeded by | Tom Schedler |
| Member of the Louisiana Senate from the 16th district |
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In office 1992–2006 |
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| Preceded by | Kenneth Osterberger |
| Succeeded by | Bill Cassidy |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
John Leigh Dardenne, Jr. February 6, 1954 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Cathy McDonald |
| Children | John Matthew |
| Alma mater | Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge |
| Religion | Judaism |
John Leigh Dardenne, Jr., known as Jay Dardenne (born February 6, 1954), served as the 53rd Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, from 2010 to 2016. A Republican, he won a special election for lieutenant governor held in conjunction with the regular November 2, 2010 general election. At the time, Dardenne was Louisiana secretary of state. Formerly, Dardenne was a member of the Louisiana State Senate for the Baton Rouge suburbs, serving from 1992 until his election as secretary of state on September 30, 2006.
Dardenne was reelected to a full term as secretary of state in the October 20, 2007, nonpartisan blanket primary. He received 758,156 votes (63 percent) to 373,956 (31 percent) for the Democrat R. Rick Wooley. A "No Party" candidate, Scott Lewis, received the remaining 64,704 votes (5 percent). Dardenne won fifty-eight of the state's sixty-four parishes. He outpolled gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal, a fellow Republican, in raw votes and won sixty-one parishes to Jindal's sixty.
On November 2, 2010, Dardenne was elected lieutenant governor, having defeated opponent Caroline Fayard, a young Democrat originally from Denham Springs, in the 2010 State of Louisiana elections.Tom Schedler, Dardenne's chief deputy in the secretary of state's office, succeeded him in performing the responsibilities of the secretary of state when Dardenne was sworn in as lieutenant governor.
Dardenne polled 719,243 votes (57 percent) to Fayard's 540,633 (43 percent). Dardenne won most of the sixty-four parishes but lost Orleans, Caddo, and St. Landry.
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