Education
Catholic High School of Pointe Coupee. Louisiana State University. Southern University.
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Robert Marrionneaux
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Term-limited, Marrionneaux was ineligible to run again for the Senate in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011. He was succeeded by his fellow Democrat Rick Ward, III.
From 1996 to 2000, Marionneaux served for a single term in the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 18, which encompassed Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana parishes. Marrionneaux"s Senate District 17 include all or portions of East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, Saint Helena, and West Baton Rouge parishes.
In the primary for the state Senate held on October 23, 1999, Representative Marionneaux led the Republican candidate, Tim Johnson, 18,204 votes (455 percent) to 12,502 (312 percent).
A third candidate, Democrat Clyde Kimball, the husband of retired Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Catherine Doctorate. Kimball, held the remaining 9,335 ballots (233 percent). The incumbent Republican state senator, Thomas A. Greene, did not seek reelection but ran instead unsuccessfully for governor.
In the 2003 primary, Johnson again challenged Marionneaux, but the incumbent handily prevailed, 27,845 votes (615 percent) to 13,204 (392 percent). A second Republican, John M. Evans, held the remaining 4,207 votes (93 percent).
Marionneaux is chairman of Senate Judiciary B, the committee which oversees the criminal justice system, including juvenile justice, the Louisiana Department of Corrections, and all issues related to gambling.
He also serves on the (1) Senate and Governmental Affairs, (2) the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs, and (3) the Senate Technology committees. On May 25, 2010, a Marionneaux proposal to ban smoking in all bars, casinos, and other gambling sites in Louisiana failed on an 8-4 vote to clear the House Health and Welfare Committee. The state already forbids smoking in restaurants.
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From 2000 to 2012, he was a member of the Louisiana State Senate.
