Joe Sevario
| Joseph Adam "Joe" Sevario, III | |
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| Louisiana State Senator for District 18 (parts of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Livingston, St. James, and St. John the Baptist parishes) | |
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In office 1976–1994 |
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| Preceded by | Ralph Falsetta |
| Succeeded by | Louis Lambert |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 18, 1944 Place of birth missing |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Bobbie Sevario |
| Children |
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| Parents | Joseph A., Jr., and Audrey Cannon Sevario |
| Occupation | Businessman |
Including:
Joseph Adam Sevario, III, known as Joe Sevario (born September 18, 1944), is a businessman from Prairieville in Ascension Parish near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who from 1976 to 1994 represented District 18 as a Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate.
Sevario is one of six children, three surviving, born to Joseph A. Sevario, Jr. (1910-1981), who is interred at Carpenters Chapel Cemetery in Galvez near Prairieville, and the former Audrey Cannon (born November 11, 1912). Two of Sevario's brothers, Kermit W. Sevario and Byron Basil Sevario (1949-2014), and a sister, Nina Jo, are deceased. He has two surviving sisters, Connie Sevario Kirkwood and Wanda Sevario Marcus. Sevario and his wife, Bobbie (born July 30, 1943), have at least one child, Shawn Kirk Sevario (born April 1967), an Independent member of the Ascension Parish School Board, who was unopposed for his seat in 2014.
In the 1983 election for a third term to the state Senate, Sevario defeated fellow Democrat M. Paul LeBlanc, 30,563 (65.4 percent) to 16,200 (34.6 percent). In that same contest, Edwin Edwards returned to the governorship, when he unseated Republican David C. Treen.
In 1986, Sevario was an unsuccessful candidate for United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 8th congressional district. Victory went to Republican Clyde C. Holloway of south Rapides Parish, the last person to hold the seat before the district was disbanded, effective January 3, 1993. Sevario finished in fourth place in the race with 34,847 votes (19 percent). Among Sevario's contributors was Ascension Parish attorney Eddie J. Lambert, now a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
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