Joseph Adam Sevario III (born September 18, 1944) is an American
politician
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. He served as a
Democratic member for the
18th district of the
Louisiana State Senate
The Louisiana State Senate (french: Sénat de Louisiane) is the upper house of the state legislature of Louisiana. All senators serve four-year terms and are assigned to multiple committees.
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.
Sevario was the son of Joseph Adam Sevario Jr. and Audrey Cannon.
He had two brothers and three sisters. In 1976, Sevario was elected for the
18th district of the
Louisiana State Senate
The Louisiana State Senate (french: Sénat de Louisiane) is the upper house of the state legislature of Louisiana. All senators serve four-year terms and are assigned to multiple committees.
Composition
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, serving until 1994.
In 1986 he was a
candidate
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* to be elected to an office — in this case a candidate selection procedure occurs.
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for the
8th congressional district of
Louisiana
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of the
United States House of Representatives
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, but was not elected.
Louisiana Highway 932 has been named Joe Sevario Road.
References
1944 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Democratic Party Louisiana state senators
20th-century American politicians
American people of Italian descent
Businesspeople from Louisiana
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