Bryan Bush

baseball player District Attorney lawyer

April 14, 1934 (age 76)

Elected in 1984, Bush took office in 1985 and resigned in 1990 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of maintaining incomplete office records. Bush had been an assistant district attorney under the two-term Democrat Ossie Brown, but he challenged Brown"s bid for a third term. A resident of Baker, Brown held the position from 1972-1984. Thereafter, he received his law degree from Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge. Bush retained the Democrat Hillar Moore, III, the current district attorney who had been an assistant to Brown, supported Brown in 1984, and was still attending law school at the time of that campaign. Moore described Bush as having been intent on prosecuting criminals and public officials accused of corruption. After Bush resigned as District Attorney, he returned to the private practice of law. In his later years, Bush had been in declining health caused by multiple sclerosis, which was initially diagnosed when Bush was thirty-seven. He died at his Baton Rouge home of cardiovascular disease at the age of seventy-six. Judy Rhodes Smith of Baton Rouge, a former client of Bush"s, wrote upon his death: "Many, many, years ago Bryan went over and beyond and literally saved my family from great hardship. He was an extraordinary attorney and an immeasurable friend. May he rest in peace.".

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baseball player District Attorney lawyer

Background

Bush was born to Bryan Bush, Senior, and the former Sallie Mat Clingman in Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish in north Louisiana.

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He graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he was on the Mustangs baseball team and a member of the fraternity, Kappa Alpha Order.

Career

Elected in 1984, Bush took office in 1985 and resigned in 1990 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of maintaining incomplete office records. Bush had been an assistant district attorney under the two-term Democrat Ossie Brown, but he challenged Brown"s bid for a third term. A resident of Baker, Brown held the position from 1972-1984.

Thereafter, he received his law degree from Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge.

Bush retained the Democrat Hillar Moore, III, the current district attorney who had been an assistant to Brown, supported Brown in 1984, and was still attending law school at the time of that campaign. Moore described Bush as having been intent on prosecuting criminals and public officials accused of corruption.

After Bush resigned as District Attorney, he returned to the private practice of law. In his later years, Bush had been in declining health caused by multiple sclerosis, which was initially diagnosed when Bush was thirty-seven.

He died at his Baton Rouge home of cardiovascular disease at the age of seventy-six.

Judy Rhodes Smith of Baton Rouge, a former client of Bush"s, wrote upon his death: "Many, many, years ago Bryan went over and beyond and literally saved my family from great hardship. He was an extraordinary attorney and an immeasurable friend. May he rest in peace.".

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Douglas Moreau, a fellow Republican, succeeded Bush as district attorney in 1991, having won a landslide election in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 6, 1990. Moore, who had since been a defense attorney in private practice, won the District Attorney"s position in 2008 with the support of both Bush and Moreau. Moore handily defeated the Republican Dan Claitor, subsequently the winner of a special election in the spring of 2009 for the Louisiana State Senate for the seat vacated by United States. Representative Bill Cassidy.

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