John Neely Kennedy
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United States Senator from Louisiana |
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Assumed office January 3, 2017 Serving with Bill Cassidy |
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| Preceded by | David Vitter |
| Treasurer of Louisiana | |
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In office January 10, 2000 – January 3, 2017 |
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| Governor |
Mike Foster Kathleen Blanco Bobby Jindal John Bel Edwards |
| Preceded by | Ken Duncan |
| Succeeded by | Ron Henson (Acting) |
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November 21, 1951 Centreville, Mississippi, U.S. |
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Democratic (Before 2007) Republican (2007–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Rebecca Stulb |
| Children | 1 son |
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Vanderbilt University (BA) University of Virginia (JD) Magdalen College, Oxford (BCL) |
| Website | Senate website |
John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951) is an American politician who is the junior United States Senator from Louisiana, serving since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he served terms as Louisiana state treasurer and took office as Louisiana's junior senator in the United States Senate on January 3, 2017, alongside the state's senior senator Bill Cassidy. He defeated Democratic candidate Foster Campbell in the Senate election runoff by more than 21 percentage points, about a month after prevailing in the state's jungle primary, along with Campbell.
Born in Centreville, Mississippi, Kennedy was reared in Zachary in East Baton Rouge Parish. He graduated in 1969 from Zachary High School. He finished magna cum laude in 1973 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, with a degree in Political Science, Philosophy, and Economics.
At Vanderbilt, he was elected president of his senior class and named to Phi Beta Kappa. After Vanderbilt, Kennedy received a law degree in 1977 from the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the University of Virginia School of Law, he was editor of the Virginia Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.
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