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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Louis Lambert |
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Prairieville, Louisiana , United States |
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December 21, 1940
(83 years)
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| Info | Louis Joseph Lambert, Jr. is a Louisiana attorney and businessman who is best remembered for having been the first Democrat since Reconstruction to have lost a contested gubernatorial general election to a Republican candidate.
Lambert, then a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, lost the 1979 governor's race to Republican U.S. Representative David C. Treen, then of Jefferson Parish in the Third Congressional District. A switch of 4,979 votes out of nearly 1.4 million cast, however, would have made Lambert governor by a one-vote margin.
Lambert represented District 18 in the Louisiana state Senate from 1994 until 2004. His district encompassed parts of East Baton Rouge, Ascension, Livingston, St. James, and St. John the Baptist parishes. He maintains a law office, specialty in personal injury cases, in Gonzales and lives in Prairieville (Ascension Parish) with his wife, Mary Gayle S. Lambert.
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