Don Cazayoux

Donald J. "Don" Cazayoux ( born January 17, 1964 in New Roads, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana) is an American politician. Between 2008 and 2009 he represented the state of Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Don Cazayoux attended until 1982 the Catholic High School of Pointe Coupee and then studied until 1993 at Louisiana State University. After studying law at Georgetown University in Washington DC and his admission to the bar he began in 1995 to work in his new profession. Between 1996 and 2000 he was a deputy district attorney in the 18th Judicial District of Louisiana. Politically, Cazayoux joined the Democratic Party. From 2000 to 2008 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Louisiana. There he was at times a member of the Budget Committee.

Following the resignation of Congressman Richard H. Baker, he was elected as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the sixth seat of Louisiana, where he took up his new mandate on May 6, 2008. Since he but in 2008 the Republican Bill Cassidy defeated in the congressional elections of the year, he could finish only the legislature begun by his predecessor in Congress until January 3, 2009.

Since April 2010, Don Cazayoux is Federal Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana. He is married to his wife Cherie since 1986. The couple has three children and lives in New Roads.