He was a member of Governor Buddy Roemer's staff before running for state attorney general in the 1991 election.
A Democrat turned Republican, he served as the Louisiana State Treasurer from 2000 to 2017.īorn in Centreville, Mississippi, Kennedy graduated from Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia School of Law before attending Magdalen College, Oxford. John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951), is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Louisiana since 2017.
