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Lester Joseph Durel Jr.,known as Joey Durel,is an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Lafayette,Louisiana from 2004 to 2016. Elected in 2003,he became the second Republican mayor of his city and the second person elected as "City-Parish president" of the combined City of Lafayette and Lafayette Parish government.
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John A. Alario Jr. is an American politician from Louisiana who represented the 8th district in the Louisiana State Senate from 2008 until 2020. Currently a Republican,Alario previously represented District 83 in the Louisiana House of Representatives as a Democrat between 1971 and 2007. Alario was term-limited from the Senate in 2019,and chose not to seek another office.
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- ↑ "Lafayette Mayor-President". Lafayette Consolidated Government. Retrieved May 17, 2024.
- ↑ "Louisiana House of Representatives". Louisiana House of Representatives. Archived from the original on April 26, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2024.
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- ↑ "Biography". Louisiana State Legislature. Retrieved May 17, 2024.
- ↑ "Alumni". University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved May 17, 2024.
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- ↑ "Robideaux on Fiscal Policy". The Advocate. November 13, 2015. Retrieved May 17, 2024.
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- 1 2 "Lafayette Mayor-President Joel Robideaux reflects on his time in office". Cypress Lake Wire. January 5, 2020. Retrieved May 17, 2024.
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