Ronald Renault R-LA

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Name: Ronald Renault

Party: Republican

Avatar: Nelson Rockefeller

Major Caucus: Mainstream Partnership

Seat: Louisiana Class III

 

Ronald Renault was born 4/1/1950 to a prominent Louisiana family. He can trace his roots back to the late 17th century where his family grew sugar for generations. After the Civil War, their family's empire evolved greatly. Today they have their hands in Gulf Coast gambling, oil leasing, home building, real estate and private equity. The family name is well known not just because of their wealth, but political influence, with Ronald's father being governor of Louisiana for a time, and an uncle that was Ambassador to Canada. His family is known as being conservative, especially when it comes to promoting the area's industries but has been ahead of the curve with civil rights issues, giving the Renault name a rare cache among LA African Americans.

 

Ronald earned a degree in history from Tulane, which is where generations of Renaults have attended. He would earn his JD, also from Tulane in 1975. From there, Ronald decided not to work in the family business but rather join their charitable wing, The Renault Foundation. During his long time at the foundation, Ronald worked on everything from rural development, inner city drug rehabilitation as well as providing basic medicine for the 3rd world. Ronald would leave the foundation in 2001 to enter into public service

 

Renault was tapped to become Ambassador to Argentina, a place Ronald knew well, in 2001. He would serve there until resigning to run for office in early 2004. Renault's political life, electorally is largely thanks to Louisiana's jungle primary. Not conservative enough to win a traditional primary, in both of his senate elections he has relied on getting into the top 2 and getting some African American support, not a majority, but more than any other Republican would. As a result, in 2004 he earned 35% of the vote in the primary, faced off against another Republican in the general and won with 51% of the vote. 2010 was more decisive, winning 54% in the primary, avoiding a runoff.

 

Points

Gender: male (0)

Age: 66 (-5)

Sexuality: Straight with 3 kids (0)

Race: White (0)

Religion: Catholic (0)

Education: JD Private non Ivy (10)

Socioeconomic: Super rich (5)

Career History: CEO (30), Foreign Service (20) Senator 2 terms (10)

 

Total Points: 70

 

OOC, will fill out votes shortly. Not sure about the "related to a famous person" part, my goal was to be related to a fictional but famous politicians. Is that kosher?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 9 by KDD
added state and party to title

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