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3 unusual facts about Virgil Orr


Virgil Orr

Six years earlier, he had contributed to the unsuccessful Republican senatorial candidate Woody Jenkins of Baton Rouge, with whom Orr served in the legislature.

In 2002, Orr contributed to the unsuccessful candidacy of his then Fifth District U.S. representative, John Cooksey, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully in the nonpartisan blanket primary for the U.S. Senate.

Both lost to the Democrat Mary Landrieu, who left the state legislature as Orr was arriving.



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