Clara Denise Marcelle is a
Democratic member of the
Louisiana House of Representatives for District 61 in
East Baton Rouge Parish
East Baton Rouge Parish (french: Paroisse de Bâton Rouge Est) is the most populous parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2010 U.S. census, its population was 440,171, and 456,781 at the 2020 census. The parish seat is Baton Rouge, ...
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Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
. She succeeded her fellow Democrat
Alfred C. Williams, who died in office on August 4, 2015.
In the
primary election held on October 24, 2015, Marcelle won the right to succeed Williams by defeating a single opponent, her fellow Democrat Donna Collins-Lewis, 4,971 votes (60.6 percent) to 3,237 (39.4 percent).
Marcelle and the late State Representative
Ronnie Edwards of District 29 both served on the Baton Rouge Metro-Council prior to their elections in 2015 to the state House. Edwards died in early 2016 of
pancreatic cancer less than two months after taking office.
In 2016, she unsuccessfully ran to be mayor-president of Baton Rouge and the East Baton Rouge Parish.
She is an alumnus of
Capitol High School in Baton Rouge.
[https://capitolhighbr.org/five-reasons-why-we-love-our-pride/]
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African-American state legislators in Louisiana
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Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American legislators
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21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American politicians
21st-century Louisiana politicians
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