1. Charles Boustany did not advance beyond the primary election, finishing third in the jungle primary behind Republican John Neely Kennedy and Democrat Foster Campbell.
20 Facts About Charles Boustany
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Charles Boustany was succeeded in the House of Representatives by Clay Higgins, a Republican who is a Lafayette law enforcement officer residing outside the district in St Landry Parish.
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Charles Boustany endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 United States presidential election.
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Congressman Boustany has nine siblings: James, Jon, Ron, Stella, Therese, Kathryn, Madlyn, Adele, and Cheryn.
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Charles Boustany is a cousin of Victoria Reggie Kennedy, widow of US Senator Edward M Kennedy of Massachusetts.
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Charles Boustany attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, at which he was a member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity.
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Charles Boustany earned his medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans in 1978.
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Charles Boustany is a retired cardiovascular surgeon who completed his residency in Rochester, New York before returning to Louisiana to take a job at Charity Hospital, New Orleans.
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Charles Boustany was only the second Republican to represent the district, the first having been Jimmy Hayes, who switched from Democratic affiliation in 1995.
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Charles Boustany won re-election to a second term with 71 percent of the vote, defeating Democrat Mike Stagg.
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Charles Boustany won re-election to a third term defeating Democrat Don Cravins, Jr.
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Charles Boustany faced freshman fellow Republican and 3rd District incumbent Jeff Landry of New Iberia.
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Charles Boustany won the runoff election against Landry with 58,820 votes.
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Charles Boustany had large margins in seven of the ten parishes in the district, particularly in Acadia, Calcasieu, and Lafayette but lost the three parishes that Landry represents, St Martin, Iberia, and St Mary.
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Charles Boustany ran for the open US Senate seat held by retiring Republican David Vitter, and on election day he received 15.4 percent of the vote at third place, not enough to advance to the run-off.
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Charles Boustany's wife Bridget Edwards is a daughter of the late Acadia Parish assistant district attorney Nolan Edwards of Crowley and Eleanor Merrill of Longboat Key, Florida.
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Bridget Charles Boustany is hence a paternal niece of Democratic former Governor Edwin Washington Edwards.
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In 1995, Charles Boustany filed a lawsuit in Louisiana's 15th Judicial District against two men in Britain for defrauding him in a $50,000 investment and in the $18,500 purchase of a title after they failed to deliver a purchased British Lordship.
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Murder in the Bayou was released while Charles Boustany was running for US Senate, and the story attracted widespread attention and drew comment from other candidates in the race.
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Charles Boustany's wife claimed that the allegations were designed to damage his senate run, while Boustany himself criticized frontrunner John N Kennedy for "fanning" the story.