Larry S. Bankston
Larry S. Bankston was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States on January 22nd, 1951 and is the American Politician And Lawyer. At the age of 73, Larry S. Bankston biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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From 1978-88, Bankston was a staff attorney for the office of the state attorney general in Baton Rouge. From 1979 to 1982, he was assistant parish attorney for East Baton Rouge Parish. From 1982 to 1988, Bankston was a member of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council, an elected governing body.
Bankston was first elected to the Senate in the 1987 general election in a narrow outcome with the Republican businessman Jay Dardenne, since Louisiana's Commissioner of Administration under Governor John Bel Edwards. Bankston prevailed by 287 votes, 12,619 (50.6 percent) to 12,332 (49.4 percent).
The seat was vacated by Democrat Thomas H. Hudson, a Baton Rouge lawyer who was President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the second-ranking leadership position, during his third term (1984–88). Bankston was reelected in 1991 under revised district boundaries in the nonpartisan blanket primary with 51.2 percent of the vote over four fellow Democratic candidates.
Bankston compiled a largely progressive voting record in the Senate, siding almost always with the positions of Edwin Washington Edwards, Victor Bussie, and Planned Parenthood, amongst other individuals and organizations. He was a supporter of casino gambling, abortion rights, and the repeal of right-to-work laws. Prior to 1992, he was a floor leader for Governor Buddy Roemer.
Bankston did not seek a third term in the 1995 primary, and the seat was won by Democrat Wilson Fields, brother of then-U.S. Representative Cleo Fields, an African American who ran for governor in 1995 but was defeated by Mike Foster.