Clyde C. Holloway
Politician
Clyde Cecil Holloway (born November 28, 1943) is an American politician, small business owner and member of the Republican Party who currently serves as one of five members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. He previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the since defunct Alexandria-based 8th congressional district from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Republican in the 20th century to represent the northern part of the state in Congress.Holloway won three consecutive elections to the U.S. House from a historically Democratic district. He ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Louisiana in 1991, finishing fourth in the blanket primary. After redistricting in 1992, his district was abolished and he ran in the 6th congressional district against fellow Republican incumbent Richard Baker, narrowly losing in the runoff. He ran unsuccessful campaigns for the 7th congressional district in 1994, the 5th congressional district in 1996 and 2002 and for Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana in 2003.Holloway served as Louisiana state director for the Office of Rural Development in the U.S. Department of Agriculture from October 2006 to January 2009, then running in a special election for the Louisiana Public Service Commission in April, which he won. He was re-elected unopposed in 2010. Holloway is also a former member of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee from the 27th Representative District.On August 21, 2013, Holloway filed to run in the special election for Louisiana's 5th congressional district following the resignation of Congressman Rodney Alexander. Holloway came in fourth in the jungle primary. Holloway's name has appeared twelve times on a Louisiana congressional ballot. He first ran for Congress in 1980, won his first term in 1986, and last ran in 2013. He has run in four different congressional districts and won three of eleven races for the U.S. House, two of which required runoffs.On August 22, 2014, Holloway filed in the remaining minutes available to run in the nonpartisan blanket primary for the regular 5th congressional district election held on November 4. This marked his fifth attempt to return to Congress since his defeat in 1992. He finished fifth in the contest with 17,875 votes (7.5 percent). The short-term incumbent, Vance McAllister, whom Holloway had endorsed in the special election runoff in 2013, finished fourth with 26,605 votes (11.1 percent). The race now heads to a runoff between Mayor Jamie Mayo of Monroe, an African American and the only Democrat in the running for a seat that was once so Democratic that Republicans did not even bother to contest it, and the top Republican candidate, Ralph Lee Abraham, Jr., a physician and former veterinarian from Mangham in Richland Parish.
Personal facts
| Birth date | November 28, 1943 |
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| Birth place | Louisiana , Rapides Parish Louisiana , Lecompte Louisiana , United States |
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| Residence | Rapides Parish Louisiana , Forest Hill Louisiana |
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