Quentin Dastugue
| Quentin D. Dastugue | |
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| Louisiana House of Representatives District 82 (Jefferson and Orleans parishes) | |
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In office 1980–1996 |
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| Preceded by | Harold Toca |
| Succeeded by | Steve Scalise |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 31, 1955 |
| Political party | Democrat-turned-Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Penny Matherne Dastugue |
| Children | Three daughters |
| Residence | Mandeville, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Businessman |
Quentin D. Dastugue (born December 31, 1955) is a founding partner and the chief executive officer of the New Orleans-based real estate firm Property One, Inc., and a former four-term member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Dastugue (pronounced DAS TOOG) was elected as a Democrat to the state House in 1979 and 1983 as the District 82 representative for suburban Jefferson Parish. In 1984, as he began his second term in the House, he switched his affiliation to the Republican Party to support the reelection of U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan and Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush.
As the chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, Highways, and Public Works, Dastugue authored and secured passage of the state Transportation Trust Fund and the TIMED program. In 1994, he received one of eleven national "Legislator of the Year" awards.
In December 1989, Dastugue announced that he would run as a Republican for the U.S. Senate in a bid to unseat popular Democratic incumbent J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., of Shreveport. However, when the Louisiana Republican Party held a state convention on January 13, 1990, the delegates endorsed State Senator Ben Bagert of New Orleans as the official party choice. Dastugue then abandoned plans to make the race. So did another candidate, W. Fox McKeithen, at the time the Louisiana Secretary of State and like Dastugue and Bagert a former Democrat. Bagert later withdrew from the contest, and Johnston defeated the remaining Republican candidate, state Representative David Duke, then of Jefferson Parish and a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
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