John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951) is the Republican state treasurer of Louisiana. Until switching parties in 2007, Kennedy was a member of the Democratic Party. Kennedy ran for the United States Senate against Democrat Mary Landrieu in the 2008 election and lost.
Kennedy was born in Centreville, Mississippi, and grew up in Zachary in East Baton Rouge Parish. In the summer of 1969, Kennedy represented Louisiana at Boys Nation in Washingt...
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John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951) is the Republican state treasurer of Louisiana. Until switching parties in 2007, Kennedy was a member of the Democratic Party. Kennedy ran for the United States Senate against Democrat Mary Landrieu in the 2008 election and lost.
Kennedy was born in Centreville, Mississippi, and grew up in Zachary in East Baton Rouge Parish. In the summer of 1969, Kennedy represented Louisiana at Boys Nation in Washington, D.C.
He earned a bachelor of arts degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1973, a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law at Charlottesville in 1977, and an advanced law degree (B.C.L.) from the University of Oxford in 1979. While a student at Vanderbilt, he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and senior class president. Prior to entering state government service, he was a partner in the law firm of Chafee, McCall, Phillips, Toler, and Sarpy, working in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans offices of the firm...
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