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Fields, Cleo

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Personal name headingFields, Cleo
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1962-11-22
Place of birthBaton Rouge (La.)
AffiliationSouthern University in New Orleans Louisiana. Legislature United States. Congress. Senate
Louisiana Leadership Institute
Profession or occupationLegislators Lawyers Politicians
Found inChannel One news. 1994-02-04, Black History Month, 1994: caption (Rep. Cleo Fields; Democratic Congressman from Louisiana)
African American National Biography, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Fields, Cleo; U.S. representative, state legislator, political figure, lawyer; born 22 November 1962 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States; majored in mass communications at Southern University in Baton Rouge; attended Southern University's College of Law; launched his first campaign to become a lawmaker 1987; the first African American to reach Louisiana's gubernatorial runoff; as senator established the Louisiana Leadership Institute)