Cedric Levan Richmond is an American lawyer and politician. He has been the U.S. Representative for Louisiana’s 2nd congressional district since 2011. His district includes most of New Orleans. He served as State Representative from New Orleans to the Louisiana State House from 2000 to 2011.
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Cedric Levan Richmond is an American lawyer and politician. He has been the U.S. Representative for Louisiana’s 2nd congressional district since 2011. His district includes most of New Orleans. He served as State Representative from New Orleans to the Louisiana State House from 2000 to 2011. From 2017 to 2019, Richmond served as Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. In 2019, he was named the first national co-chairman of the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign. In 2020, Richmond announced he would leave Congress in January 2021 to serve as Senior Advisor to the President and director of the Office of Public Liaison. Richmond voted to impeach President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019. He is the fifth-biggest recipient of money from fossil fuel donors among House Democrats. The League of Conservation Voters gave him one of the lowest ratings for any Democrat in Congress.
Richmond was the first candidate in the 2010 elections to have President Barack Obama appear in a television ad on his behalf. He was the most Democratic district in the country to be represented by a Republican. In January 2017, Richmond was re-elected with 63% of the vote. He won the November 2, 2017 election with 65% of vote. In 2008, Obama had carried the 2nd district with 74% of his vote, a Southern best nationally and his 35th best nationally in a Southern part of the country. Richmond’s father died when he was seven years old. He received a B. A. from Morehouse College, and a J. D. from Tulane School of Law. He played college baseball as a pitcher for the Morehouse Maroon Tigers in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
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