Dan Claitor

Who is Dan Claitor?

Daniel Albert Claitor, 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 to Domingue's 6,114.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 is being vacated by Bill Cassidy, Claitor's predecessor in the state Senate, who is instead attempting to unseat Democrat U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu.