John Brennan Hussey

Who is John Brennan Hussey?

John Brennan Hussey, Jr., an attorney who specializes in contracts, served for two terms from 1982 to 1990 as the Democratic Mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana. Before serving as mayor, he was a one-term member of the Shreveport City Council and in 1980 the council chairman.

Hussey graduated from the private elementary and junior high institution, the Southfield School in the South Highlands neighborhood of Shreveport and was inducted in 2008 into the school hall of fame.

In 1982 and 1986, Hussey defeated then Democrat Donald W. "Don" Williamson, a former member of both houses of the state legislator from Caddo parish, in two races for mayor. Thereafter, Williamson, in political retirement, joined the Republican Party. Williamson was considered a better campaigner than Hussey, but the former lawmaker was mostly identified with northern Caddo Parish, rather than Shreveport, where he had relocated several years earlier.

In 1994, Hussey sought a comeback as mayor but ran third in the nonpartisan blanket primary with 11,833 votes. In the ensuing general election, the Republican Robert W. "Bo" Williams defeated the African-American Democrat Roy Cary.