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Daniel Albert Claitor (born August 3, 1961),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Click Daniel Claitor, August 1961 )〕 known as Dan Claitor, is a Baton Rouge attorney and a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate. On April 4, 2009, Claitor defeated fellow Republican Lee Domingue, a Baton Rouge businessman backed by Governor Bobby Jindal, in a special election for the District 16 Senate seat vacated by Republican U.S. Representative Bill Cassidy. Claitor received 11,713 votes (66 percent) to Domingue's 6,114 (34 percent). Prior to Cassidy's short tenure, the seat was held by Louisiana Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne, another Baton Rouge Republican. Claitor was an unsuccessful candidate for the open seat from Louisiana's 6th congressional district in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on November 4, 2014, in conjunction with the regular general elections in the other forty-nine states. The congressional seat was vacated by Bill Cassidy, Claitor's predecessor in the state Senate, who instead ran successfully to unseat Democrat U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. Claitor's intraparty opponents were Garret Graves, State Representative Lenar Whitney and Paul Deitzel, II, of Baton Rouge, namesake grandson of the Louisiana State University football coach and athletic director Paul Dietzel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jordan Blum, Washington Watch: Handicapping the 6th District race, January 24, 2014 )〕 A Democrat, the 87-year-old Edwin Edwards, former four-time governor of Louisiana and four-time representative of Louisiana's 7th congressional district, since disbanded, led the primary field with 77,862 votes (30.1 percent), but later lost the general election to the runner-up in the primary, Garret Graves, who had polled 70,706 (27.4 percent) in the primary.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Election results 11/4/2014 )〕 ==Background== Claitor is the third of four sons of Robert Gregory Claitor, Sr., and the former Nancy McLellan (1934-2014), the daughter of the late Archibald Kenneth McLellan and the former Jewel Dean. Mrs. Claitor died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on October 22, 2014, two weeks before the primary election for Congress. Reared in Boyce in northern Rapides Parish in the home of her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert McNeely Dean, Mrs. Claitor studied and taught ballet, earned her Registered Nurse degree in 1956 from the former Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, and received a degree in psychiatric nursing from Loyola University New Orleans. At the time of her death, having retired from nursing, she was the harbor master and co-owner of Marina del Ray in Madisonville in St. Tammany Parish, and a co-owner and former manager of Claitor's Law Books and Publishing Company in Baton Rouge. An enthusiast of the French language, she traveled extensively in France and sat on the board of Friends of French Studies at LSU. She was a United Methodist. Claitor and his brothers, James Dean Claitor, Robert Claitor, Jr., and John Fleming Claitor,〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Obituary of Daniel Claitor (uncle of Dan Claitor) )〕 were reared within the boundaries of his Baton Rouge senatorial district. The family Claitor's Bookstore has published general works distinct to Louisiana and the memoirs of numerous Louisiana politicians, such as William J. "Bill" Dodd, former lieutenant governor and state education superintendent. Claitor's formal schooling began at the age of three in the preschool of the Department of Home Economics at LSU. He graduated in 1979 from Robert E. Lee High School and then returned to LSU to complete in 1983 a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance. According to his website, he considers the progress of LSU crucial to the retention and recruitment of business in the Baton Rouge metropolitan area. As a youth, Claitor drove delivery trucks and worked the presses and bindery operations at Claitor's, for which he is still its legal counsel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Claitor for Louisiana Senate District 16'' )〕 Claitor obtained his law degree from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law. In 1987, Claitor was named an assistant district attorney at the annual salary of $18,951 for the Orleans Parish District Attorney's office, where he claimed a good record in fighting crime. In 2008, in his first political race, Claitor lost badly in a bid for District Attorney of the 19th District (East Baton Rouge Parish).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joe Gyan, Jr., "DA foes experienced in law: Republican Dan Claitor, Democrat Hillar Moore vying for post" )〕 Claitor polled 26,880 votes (26 percent) in the district attorney's race to 76,890 ballots (74 percent) for the Democrat Hillar Moore, who carried the backing of two former Republican district attorneys, Bryan E. Bush, Jr., and Douglas Moreau, the outgoing DA who had served since 1991.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Results for District Attorney, 19th Judicial District Court, October 4, 2008 )〕 Claitor entered private practice in Baton Rouge in 1990. He and his wife, the former Sharmaine Leblanc (also born 1961), have two sons, Sam and James Claitor. They are Roman Catholic.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dan Claitor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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