Running for Office: State House of Representatives District 18
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OSCAR — Pointe Coupee Parish businessman and School Board member Major Thibaut announced he will be a candidate for the District 18 seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives.
The seat became vacant Tuesday when Don Cazayoux, D-New Roads, was sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District, succeeding U.S. Rep. Richard Baker, R-Baton Rouge, who resigned.
The state will have to schedule a special election to fill the remainder of Cazayoux’s term in the Legislature.
District 18 includes Pointe Coupee Parish, the northwestern portion of West Feliciana Parish and most of West Baton Rouge Parish, except for the Addis-Brusly area.
Thibaut, 31, of Oscar, is a Democrat who operates an insurance investment planning business.
Elected to the School Board in 2006, he served one year as board president.
A lifelong resident of Pointe Coupee Parish, Thibaut received a bachelor’s degree in political science from LSU in 1999 and has studied public administration at LSU’s E.J. Ourso College of Business.
Thibaut said his legislative priorities would include betterment of education, support for sound state fiscal investments, improvement of Louisiana’s infrastructure and promotion of economic development.
Thibaut is a member of the Greater Pointe Coupee Chamber of Commerce as well as Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Oscar.
