PERSON: John Kennedy

Senator

John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951) is an American politician who is the junior United States Senator from Louisiana, serving since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he served terms as Louisiana state treasurer and took office as Louisiana’s junior senator in the United States Senate on January 3, 2017, alongside the state’s senior senator Bill Cassidy. He defeated Democratic candidate Foster Campbell in the Senate election runoff by more than 21 percentage points, about a month after prevailing in the state’s jungle primary, along with Campbell.<br> <br> — Wikipedia