Tony Ligi [SEP] position held
Tony Ligi
Anthony V. Ligi, Jr., known as Tony Ligi (born August 7, 1955), is an attorney and real estate title insurance agent from Metairie in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, who is a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 79, located on the populous south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. He resigned his seat, effective January 1, 2013, to become director of the Jefferson Business Council.
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Websites do not indicate Ligi's exact date or place of birth
Tony Ligi, who resigned from office to become director of the Jefferson Business Council. By defeating three fellow Republicans, Stokes received 55 percent of the vote to fill the nearly three years remaining in Li's term. Businessman Jack Rizzuto, a candidate defeated by Ligi in 2007, finished second in the 2013 contest with 31 percent of the ballots cast. Allison Bent Bowler, the chief financial officer at Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans received 9 percent of the vote. No Democrat ran for the position.
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