Cleo Fields

Quick Facts

Full Name	Cleo Fields
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Nov 22, 1962(1962-11-22)
Age	62
Birthplace	Baton Rouge
Country	United States
Birth City	Louisiana
Horoscope	Scorpio

Cleo Fields Biography

Cleo Fields is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 22, 1962 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. Cleo C. Fields (born on the 22nd of November 1962) is a American politician, lawyer and a member of the Democratic Party from the U.S. state of Louisiana. He was a member of Louisiana’s Fourth congressional district of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 until 1997. He was unsuccessful in his bid for governor of Louisiana in 1995. He is currently the Louisiana State Senator for the 14th State Senate district which he was in previously twice.

Fields is elected the member of the congressional district that covers Louisiana’s 4th district on the House of Representatives in 1992 and was reelected in 1994. Fields was a candidate for governor in 1995 and finished second in the primary in the jungle but losing by a landslide Mike Foster. He did not seek another term in his seat in the House in 1996, and his seat was vacated from Republican John Cooksey.

In 1995 he became a candidate for Louisiana governor. Another black candidate withdrew and endorsed Fields, leaving him the entire black vote. Many in his party were angered by his candidacy, since most felt that a black challenger could not seriously win the office and Mason-Dixon Polling released on October 17, 1995 showed Fields to be the loser in every possible head-to-head combination of candidates. “I know I’m going against the odds, but I am an odds-buster,” he noted in The Commercial Appeal. “I feel uncomfortable when it’s even. I like to be the underdog. I’ve been the underdog all my life.” He narrowly beat the top two white Democratic candidates in the primary and made it to a runoff with Republican Mike Foster. Though race had been a preeminent factor during his Congressional redistricting fight, Fields vowed not to emphasize color in the election, proclaiming, “I’m not running to be the African American governor, but to be the best governor,” in a speech excerpted in the Chicago Tribune. “Don’t vote for me because I’m black, … don’t vote against me because I’m black.” His remarks in the Los Angeles Times continued this theme: “When a baby cries, it’s not a white baby or a black baby — it’s a hungry baby,” he asserted. “When people cry for job opportunities, they’re not black or white — they’re unemployed.” He was also outspoken in his support for gun control, which Foster roundly opposed. “Every time I hear a gunshot,” he declared in a speech reported by the Chicago Tribune, “I think about my child.” Some analysts actually wagered that Fields chances in the election might be helped by the likelihood that many of Foster’s supporters would go duck hunting on election day.

Fields used his voting power in the service of a liberal agenda. He could boast of a 0 percentage rating (out of a possible 100 percent) by such conservative organizations as the Christian Coalition and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Meanwhile, progressive interest groups such as the National Abortion Rights Action League, PeacePAC, and the American Public Health Association, as well as a range of labor-affiliated organizations, gave him a perfect rating. His efforts as a legislator often involved channeling funds into education and protecting consumers from the excesses of insurers, banks, and other such institutions. Congressional Quarterly noted that Fields “has tried to use his seats on the Banking Committee and the Small Business Committee to leverage capital for small businesses willing to relocate in his district, where poverty rates are high.” Though he made many political enemies with his voting record, his personal standing in Congress remained high. When his first child was born in 1995, he won cheers from his colleagues on the floor.

He was again elected in 1992 and with this one in the newly formed 4th District, a 63 percent majority black district that runs in the shape of a “Z” shape from Shreveport to Baton Rouge. It was like an elongated, thin snake that ran along the Mississippi River, picking up majority of the black communities located in Monroe and Alexandria in the process. Fields was the first to finish in a very crowded primary, but fell about 1500 votes short of winning the race completely. Fields was forced to go through an election runoff with another State senator Charles D. Jones of Monroe who Fields was able to win by more than 73 percent of the votes. At the age of thirty, he was one of the youngest lawmakers. He was able to advance his agenda in Congress by utilizing his House Small Business Committee, the House Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs Committee, the Housing and Community Opportunity Committee and a host of other committees.

Cleo Fields Net Worth

Cleo Fields is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Cleo Fields 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Fields is a native of Port Allen, Louisiana and obtained his law and undergraduate degree in law from Southern University in Baton Rouge. In the year 1980, he started the group that raised money for Young Adults for Positive Action and, in 1987, he became a member of the Louisiana Senate. The senator was a candidate in the race for Congress in 1990, but lost, but was re-elected into his seat in the State Senate for the 14th district in the year 1991.

Fields served as a State Senate during six terms. In 1990, he ran in the non- partisan blanket election in the 8th District, but was defeated in the first round by incumbent Republican Clyde Holloway.

The gerrymandering of Fields’ district was the subject of constant legal wrangling from late 1993 until well into his second term in Congress. The district was designed to collect a larger black populace — and more black votes — than a competing version. After various challenges, referrals to higher courts, and redraws, Fields was finally able to run in his custom- designed district and trounced a nominal Republican challenger in 1994. His district woes were far from over, however, and the district was ultimately thrown out by the Supreme Court as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. His home in Baton Rouge was placed in the 6th District of Republican Richard Baker, while the northern portions were split between the 4th and 5th districts.

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Fields is credited with the original version of a quotation that became popular following Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election. At the “State of the Black Union 2008” symposium in New Orleans, Louisiana in February 2008, Fields said, “Rosa Parks sat down so we could stand up. Martin Luther King marched so Jesse Jackson could run. Jesse Jackson ran so Obama could win.” Another version has Fields saying, “W. E. B. Du Bois taught so that Rosa Parks could take a seat. Rosa took a seat so we all could take a stand. We all took a stand so that Martin Luther King Jr. could march. Martin marched so Jesse Jackson could run. Jesse ran so Obama could WIN.” Fields’s statement was shortened by the rapper Jay-Z in “My President Is Black”: “Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther could walk/ Martin Luther walked so Barack Obama could run/ Barack Obama ran so all the children could fly.”

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Fields had underestimated the challenge he faced. Foster’s conservative message, designed by media consultant Roy Fletcher, who also had handled Cleo Fields’ campaign for Congress, resonated with Louisiana’s voters, who in a previous election had given former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke nearly 40 percent of the popular vote. As the polls predicted, Fields was defeated soundly in the runoff. Exit polling showed that 95% of his votes came from the black community. During this race Fields began a feud with fellow Democrat Mary Landrieu who did not endorse him in the second round. Like many, she believing his bid had been funded by Republicans and was intended to be a spoiler to let Foster win. Fields retaliated by labeling her campaign racist and refusing to endorse her in her later race for United States Senate. It was revealed that Fields had abused his Congressional franking privileges by sending newsletters to his district — at a cost of about $46,000, paid for by taxpayers — that were clearly meant to boost his gubernatorial bid. “Of course, a newsletter like that doesn’t have to say `reelect me’ to be effective around election time,” explained National Taxpayers Union vice- president Pete Sepp in Insight on the News. “It can serve as a great, well- produced reminder to voters that their incumbent congressman is taking care of business.” Fields was far from alone in engaging in such tactics, of course, but the exposure in a time when “government waste” was a handy political phrase wielded by conservatives, it did not help.

Is Cleo Fields a senator?

On October 12, 2019, Fields was re-elected to the 14th senatorial district, making history again by becoming the first person in Louisiana to return to the Senate for the third time.

Who is the senior senator from Louisiana?

William Morgan Cassidy (born September 28, 1957) is an American physician and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Louisiana, a seat he has held since 2015.

Who is the senator for Orleans Parish?

“Bodi” White Jr.

Who is the current Speaker of the House?

Nancy Pelosi (Democratic Party)

Where is Michael Cassidy from?

Cassidy was born in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from La Salle High School in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2001, and graduated from the Two-Year Conservatory program at The New Actors Workshop in New York City in 2003.